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New preprint: Optimal disease surveillance with graph-based Active Learning DPhil student Joseph Tsui led a study on how to sample on networks for tracking infectious diseases with limited testing budgets. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

StanCon 2024 early bird deadline is the 1st of July - now would be a great time to apply if you've been on the fence.

Hot off the press! A new study in The Lancet Global Health forecasts 2030 trends in physical inactivity. A collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO), Oxford Comp Sci, and Imperial School of Public Health. #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #PhysicalActivity 📜Paper: thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Big thanks to Alexandre Andorra & Chris Wymant @chriswymant.bsky.social for a great #StanCon 2024 panel! We covered epidemiology vs biology, infectious diseases vs NCDs, generative emulators, graph GPs, sequential data collection, and, of course, #ProbabilisticProgramming.

Looking to make my online lecture notes both citable and indexed on Google Scholar. Currently using Zenodo, but unsure if it's the best option since it's not getting indexed by Google Scholar. Any tips? 👩‍💻🤔 GitHub repo: github.com/elizavetasemen…

Working with Slava is an absolute joy and a deeply enriching experience! He’s about to join The University of Edinburgh and is looking for PhD students.

Transformer Neural Processes -- Kernel Regression ift.tt/di3gMSB

If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.

📢 Consider submitting your abstract to "The Science of Connections: Urban Mobility and Networks" satellite event at #NetSci2025 (netsci2025.github.io) 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 🕒 🔗 Details: mobilityhealthnetworks.github.io ❓ With questions, reach out to @creswapi, Prateek, me 🤝

Interested 'home' candidates -- please apply for this PhD position!

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Sabine L.van Elsland speaks with Elizaveta Semenova @[email protected] & Samir Bhatt about #AI & modelling of infectious disease outbreaks 👉 How can AI contribute to pandemic preparedness? 👉 Examples of AI in modelling of infectious diseases & the Nobel Peace Prize

✨ Honourable mention ✨ for the 2025 Best Paper Awards at ACM FAccT Shu will present on Thursday, 11:45am local time Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.09496