{"id":19376,"date":"2020-06-12T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19376"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:57","slug":"tracking-covid-19-spread-faster-and-more-accurately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/12\/tracking-covid-19-spread-faster-and-more-accurately\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking COVID-19 spread faster, and more accurately"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-700x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-700x389.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-665x369.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/Tumisu-148124\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4944680\">Tumisu<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4944680\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new application for an ongoing NSF project could bolster contract tracing efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an approach that combines big data, network science and stochastic systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/06\/tracking-covid-19-spread-faster-and-more-accurately\/\">a Michigan Engineering professor is working to develop algorithms that can quickly and accurately identify COVID-19 \u201cpatient zero\u201d<\/a> as the virus spreads to new places or resurges, and reconstruct its spread with limited information.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leiying.engin.umich.edu\/\">Lei Ying<\/a>, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is using a wide array of data that might include, for example, human mobility data, social network data and genetic network analysis. This is a new application of an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1715385&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">NSF project<\/a>&nbsp;that Ying and his team have been working on for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project focuses on establishing a theoretical framework for locating the source of anything that has already spread so widely, it can seem like finding the original stalk of straw in a haystack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new application for an ongoing NSF project could bolster contract tracing efforts. With an approach that combines big data, network science and stochastic systems, a Michigan Engineering professor is working to develop algorithms that can quickly and accurately identify COVID-19 \u201cpatient zero\u201d as the virus spreads to new places or resurges, and reconstruct its spread with limited\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/12\/tracking-covid-19-spread-faster-and-more-accurately\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[810,852],"class_list":["post-19376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-covid","tag-engineering"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280.jpg",1280,711,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-200x111.jpg",200,111,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-768x427.jpg",665,370,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-700x389.jpg",600,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280.jpg",1280,711,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280.jpg",1280,711,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280-665x369.jpg",665,369,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-4944680_1280.jpg",400,222,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A new application for an ongoing NSF project could bolster contract tracing efforts. 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