Impacts in the Life of Angelenos of COVID-19: Evidence from a National Dashboard and the 1000 participants in the GeoTrans May 2020 survey

Kostas Goulias, PhD
Professor of Geography, UCSB

In this presentation I will provide a description of what changed in mobility and social distancing as well as consumption and jobs at different stages of COVID-19 using widely available data. Then, I will focus on the Los Angeles Metropolis and describe our findings in wave 1 COVID-19 GeoTrans survey. I will close the presentation with trends transport experts expect to see emerging as we move along the COVID-19 stages.

Konstadinos (Kostas) Goulias is a professor of transportation in the Geography Department at the University of California Santa Barbara and co-director of the GeoTrans laboratory. His research interests include Transportation Systems Modeling and Simulation, Travel Behavior, Transportation Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Geographic Information Science, Economic Geography, and Survey Methods.

COVID-19 Trend Analysis Using Neural Models

Xifeng Yan, PhD
Professor of Computer Science, UCSB

Demography, population density, business structure, and social culture differ across regions. Correlating these local factors with the number of coronavirus cases and the availability of hospital resources could provide scientific guidance to local policy makers. Different from the classic epidemic models for COVID-19, we will introduce a new type of data-driven forecasting models based on the lately developed deep learning techniques that could shed insight on business reopening strategies.

Xifeng Yan is an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He holds the Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 2006 and 2008. He has been working on modeling, managing, and mining graphs in information networks, computer systems, social media and bioinformatics. His works were extensively referenced, with over 9,000 citations per Google Scholar and thousands of software downloads. He received NSF CAREER Award, IBM Invention Achievement Award, ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Runner-Up Award, and IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award.

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