Track / Overview

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health advice, stay-at-home orders, and self-imposed limitations have dramatically changed human behaviors on a global scale. For the first time in an epidemic, such an unprecedented natural experiment has been sensed through digital platforms in real-time. Digital traces such as mobile phone data, social media posts, search engine queries, bank transactions have revealed how the pandemic has deeply changed our daily habits, such as our mobility patterns, our social and economic interactions, both online and offline.

The power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to such large-scale data has proven to be important to address several policy issues, such as evaluating the effectiveness of interventions aimed at containing the epidemic or measuring the social and economic cost of these interventions.

The aim of the track is to gather contributions from researchers, public health officials, and industry leaders about the insights gained from the analysis of large-scale data in their fight against the pandemic.
Different aspects relevant to ML and AI will be discussed: from the ethical issues arising from the analysis of digital traces to the challenges in delivering actionable insights to governments and policymakers.

Track / Schedule

Introduction to the track

With Marcel Salathé

09:30-09:35 June 28
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Opening remarks

09:35-09:40 June 28
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Data Science against COVID-19

With Nuria Oliver

09:40-10:10 June 28
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Improving clinical decision making for patients with COVID-19: identifying risk factors for mortality in hospitalised patients in the USA

With Shemra Rizzo

10:15-10:30 June 28
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Rapid Cues for Research: COVID-19 Exploratory Search System Using Taxonomies

With Muhammad Atif Qureshi

10:36-10:53 June 28
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On the automation of de-novo molecular design and chemical synthesis planning - a case study on SARS-CoV-2

With Jannis Born

10:58-11:15 June 28
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Coffee break

11:15-11:25 June 28
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Mapping the landscape of artificial intelligence applications against COVID-19

With Miguel Luengo-Oroz

11:25-12:02 June 28
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Impacts of COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions on Dietary Interests

With Kristina Gligorić

12:07-12:24 June 28
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Facebook surveys provide rapid insights into people's behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic

With Daniela Perrotta

12:29-12:46 June 28
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2020 Year in review : AI versus COVID?

12:51-13:08 June 28
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Concluding remarks

13:08-13:15 June 28
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Lunch

13:15-14:15 June 28
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Opening remarks

14:15-14:23 June 28
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Digital tools against covid19. Ethics and governance challenges.

With Effy Vayena

14:23-14:58 June 28
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The Covid-19 Infodemics Observatory

With Riccardo Gallotti

15:03-15:20 June 28
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Interpreting public information for Covid-19: a case for deep learning

With Karl Aberer

15:25-15:42 June 28
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Infodemics and Information Dynamics

With Walter Quattrociocchi

15:47-16:04 June 28
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Coffee break

16:04-16:14 June 28
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Making Mobility Data Useful during COVID-19

With Caroline Buckee

16:14-16:51 June 28
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Estimating the effect of social inequalities on the mitigation of COVID-19 across communities in Santiago de Chile

With Nicolò Gozzi

16:56-17:13 June 28
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A Bayesian spatial analysis of the association of socioeconomic inequality and perceived risk of infection with human mobility changes [...]

With Giulia Carella

17:18-17:35 June 28
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Concluding remarks

17:35-17:40 June 28
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Virtual Apéro

17:40-18:40 June 28
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Track / Speakers

Marcel Salathé

Professor, EPFL

Nuria Oliver

Cofounder and Vice president, ELLIS

Kristina Gligorić

Phd Student, EPFL

Caroline Buckee

Associate Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Effy Vayena

Professor, ETH Zurich, Institute of Translational Medicine

Miguel Luengo-Oroz

Chief Data Scientist, UN Global Pulse

Shemra Rizzo

Senior Data Scientist, Genentech

Daniela Perrotta

Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Giulia Carella

Research Scientist, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Jannis Born

PhD student, IBM Research Zurich

Karl Aberer

Professor, EPFL & Co-founder, LinkAlong

Muhammad Atif Qureshi

Assistant Professor, TU Dublin

Nicolò Gozzi

PhD Student, University of Greenwich

Riccardo Gallotti

Researcher, FBK

Walter Quattrociocchi

Professor, Sapienza University of Rome

Track / Co-organizers

Michele Tizzoni

Senior Research Scientist, ISI Foundation

Paolo Bajardi

Manager of Industrial Research, ISI Foundation

Laetitia Gauvin

Senior Research Scientist, ISI Foundation

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