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Alessandro Vespignani

Charting the Next Pandemic: Modeling Infectious Disease Spreading in the Data Science Age
Springer
December 10, 2018
Ana Pastore y Piontti, Nicola Perra, Luca Rossi, Nicole Samay, Alessandro Vespignani
Measurability of the epidemic reproduction number in data-driven contact networks
PNAS
November 21, 2018
Quan-Hui Liu, Marco Ajelli, Alberto Aleta, Stefano Merler, Yamir Moreno, and Alessandro Vespignani
Quantifying the risk of local Zika virus transmission in the contiguous US during the 2015–2016 ZIKV epidemic
BMC Medicine
October 18, 2018
Kaiyuan Sun, Qian Zhang, Ana Pastore-Piontti, Matteo Chinazzi, Dina Mistry, Natalie E Dean, Diana Patricia Rojas, Stefano Merler, Piero Poletti, Luca Rossi, M Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M Longini Jr and Alessandro Vespignani
Link transmission centrality in large-scale social networks
EPJ Data Science
September 14, 2018
Qian Zhang, Márton Karsai and Alessandro Vespignani
Science of science
Science
March 2, 2018
Santo Fortunato, Carl T. Bergstrom, Katy Börner, James A. Evans, Dirk Helbing, Staša Milojević, Alexander M. Petersen, Filippo Radicchi, Roberta Sinatra, Brian Uzzi, Alessandro Vespignani, Ludo Waltman, Dashun Wang, Albert-László Barabási
Simulations for designing and interpreting intervention trials in infectious diseases
BMC Medicine
December 5, 2017
M. Elizabeth Halloran, Kari Auranen, Sarah Baird, Nicole E. Basta, Steven E. Bellan, Ron Brookmeyer, Ben S. Cooper, Victor DeGruttola, James P. Hughes, Justin Lessler, Eric T. Lofgren, Ira M. Longini, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Berk Özler, George R. Seage, Thomas A. Smith, Alessandro Vespignani, Emilia Vynnycky and Marc Lipsitch
The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge: Model description and synthetic data generation
Epidemics
September 13, 2017
Marco Ajelli, Qian Zhang, Kaiyuan Sun, Stefano Merler, Laura Fumanelli, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
The RAPIDD Ebola Forecasting Challenge: Synthesis and Lessons Learnt
Epidemics
August 21, 2017
Cecile Viboud, Kaiyuan Sun, Robert Gaffey, Marco Ajelli, Laura Fumanelli, Stefano Merler, Qian Zhang, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Alessandro Vespignani
Spread of Zika virus in the Americas
PNAS
April 25, 2017
Qian Zhang, Kaiyuan Sun, Matteo Chinazzi, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Natalie E. Dean, Diana Patricia Rojas, Stefano Merler, Dina Mistry, Piero Poletti, Luca Rossi, Margaret Bray, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr., Alessandro Vespignani
Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Fusing Digital Indicators and a Mechanistic Disease Model
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web
April 3, 2017
Q, Zhang, N. Perra, D. Perrotta, D. Paolotti, M. Tizzoni, A. Vespignani.
Perspectives on model forecasts of the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa: lessons and the way forward
BMC Medicine
March 1, 2017
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Stefano Merler and Alessandro Vespignani
Containing Ebola at the Source with Ring Vaccination
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
November 2, 2016
​Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli, Laura Fumanelli, Stefano Parlamento, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Natalie E. Dean, Giovanni Putoto, Dante Carraro, Ira M. Longini Jr., M. Elizabeth Halloran, Alessandro Vespignani
​Asymptotic theory of time-varying social networks with heterogeneous activity and tie allocation
Scientific Reports
October 24, 2016
Enrico Ubaldi, Nicola Perra, Márton Karsai, Alessandro Vezzani, Raffaella Burioni, Alessandro Vespignani
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea and implications for vaccination and disease elimination: a computational modeling analysis
BMC Medcine
September 7, 2016
M. Ajelli, S. Merler, L. Fumanelli, A. Pastore y Piontti, N. E. Dean, I. M. Longini, M. E. Halloran and A. Vespignani.
​Projected spread of Zika virus in the Americas
Biorxiv
July 29, 2016
Q. Zhang, K. Sun, M. Chinazzi, A. Pastore y Piontti, N.E. Dean, D. Rojas, S. Merler, D. Mistry, P. Poletti, L. Rossi, M. Bray, M.E. Halloran, I. Longini and A. Vespignani.
​Real-Time Assessment of the International Spreading Risk Associated with the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
July 28, 2016
A. Pastore y Piontti, Q. Zhang, M. F. C. Gomes, L. Rossi, C. Poletto, V. Colizza, D.L. Chao, I. Longing, M.E. Halloran and A. Vespignani.
Results from the centers for disease control and prevention’s predict the 2013–2014 Influenza Season Challenge
BMC Infectious Diseases
July 22, 2016
M. Biggerstaff, D. Alper , M. Dredze , S. Fox , I. Chun-Hai Fung, K.S. Hickmann, B. Lewis , R. Rosenfeld, J. Shaman, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, P. Velardi, A. Vespignani, L. Finelli and for the Influenza Forecasting Contest Working Group
The dynamics of information-driven coordination phenomena: A transfer entropy analysis
Science Advances
April 1, 2016
J. Borge-Holthoefer, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, S. González-Bailón, A. Arenas, Y. Moreno, and A. Vespignani
The Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD): Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance
PLoS ONE
January 28, 2016
K. J. Margevicius , N. Generous , E. Abeyta , B. Althouse , H. Burkom , L. Castro, A. Daughton, S. Y. Del Valle , G. Fairchild , J. M. Hyman, R. Kiang, A. P. Morse, C. M. Pancerella , L. Pullum , A. Ramanathan , J. Schlegelmilch, A. Scott, K. J Taylor-McCabe , A. Vespignani, A. Deshpande
Online social networks and offline protest
EPJ Data Science
November 9, 2015
Z.C. Steinert-Threlkeld, D. Mocanu, A. Vespignani, J. Fowler
Asymptotic theory for the dynamic of networks with heterogenous social capital allocation
arXiv
September 22, 2015
E Ubaldi, N Perra, M Karsai, A Vezzani, R Burioni, A Vespignani
Epidemic Processes in Complex Networks
Rev. Mod. Phys.
August 31, 2015
R. Pastor-Satorras, C. Castellano, P. Van Mieghem, and A. Vespignani
Social Data Mining and Seasonal Influenza Forecasts: The FluOutlook Platform
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
August 29, 2015
Q. Zhang, C. Gioannini, D. Paolotti, N. Perra, D. Perrotta, M. Quaggiotto, M. Tizzoni, and A. Vespignani
Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
June 15, 2015
S. Merler, M. Ajelli, L. Fumanelli, M.F.C. Gomes, A. Pastore y Piontti, L. Rossi, D.L. Chao, I.M. Longini Jr, M.E. Halloran, A. Vespignani
Ebola: Mobility Data
Science
October 24, 2014
M.E. Halloran, A. Vespignani, N. Bharti, L.R. Feldstein, K. A. Alexander, M. Ferrari, J. Shaman, J.M. Drake, T. Porco, J.N.S. Eisenberg, S.Y. Del Valle, E. Lofgren, S.V. Scarpino, M.C. Eisenberg, D. Gao, J.M. Hyman, S. Eubank, I.M. Longini Jr.
Assessing the impact of travel restrictions on international spread of the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic
Eurosurveillance
October 23, 2014
C. Poletto, M.F. Gomes, A. Pastore y Piontti, L. Rossi, L. Bioglio, D.L. Chao, I.M. Longini, M.E. Halloran, V. Colizza, A. Vespignani
Assessing the International Spreading Risk Associated with the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
PLOS Currents Outbreaks
September 2, 2014
M.F.C. Gomes, A. Pastore y Piontti, L. Rossi, D. Chao, I. Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran, A. Vespignani
Damage detection via shortest path network sampling
Physical Review E
May 30, 2014
F. Ciulla, N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, A. Vespignani
The Infection Tree of Global Epidemics
Network Science
April 10, 2014
A. Pastore y Piontti, M. Ferreira Da Costa Gomes, N. Samay, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
Controlling contagion processes in activity-driven networks
Physical Review Letter, 112:118702, (2014)
March 19, 2014
S. Liu, N. Perra, M. Karsai, A. Vespignani
The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis
Science Vol. 343
March 14, 2014
D. Lazer, R. Kennedy, G. King, A. Vespignani
Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties
Scientific Reports
February 10, 2014
M. Karsai, N. Perra, A. Vespignani
Web-based participatory surveillance of infectious diseases: the Influenzanet participatory surveillance experience
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
December 18, 2013
D. Paolotti, A. Carnahan, V. Colizza, K. Eames, J. Edmunds, G. Gomes, C. Koppeschaar, M. Rehn, R. Smallenburg, C. Turbelin, S.P. Van Noort, A. Vespignani
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