November 15, 2021
Scoglio to present Nov. 17 distinguished graduate faculty lecture
The Graduate School has recognized Caterina Scoglio, professor in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as a 2021-2022 Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award recipient.
Scoglio will make a public presentation on her work at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, via Zoom, as part of the Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. The title of her talk is "Network Approaches for Mitigation and Forecast of Infectious Diseases."
As an internationally recognized expert in the field of network science and contact-network models for epidemic spreading, Scoglio's work has been transformational. Her research team developed the generalized epidemic mean-field modeling software, which has been widely adopted by other researchers and applied to modeling of many infectious diseases. Scoglio and her research group are often sought out for research proposals in response to new epidemics. Her team's work in the last year has been particularly significant as the team produced accurate predictions of the spread of COVID-19 in Wuhan City, China, and the Uganda Ebola cases in 2019.
Scoglio's research has been supported by more than $11 million in funding. She has more than 100 journal publications, 73 conference presentations and has given more than 35 invited talks.
All are invited to join the lecture via Zoom.