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David Buckeridge

2 accepted papers

2024

BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset

AAAI 2024technical

Infectious disease outbreaks continue to pose a significant threat to human health and well-being. To improve disease surveillance and understanding of disease spread, several surveillance systems have been developed to monitor daily news alerts and social media. However, existing systems lack thoro…

2021

Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing

ICLR 2021spotlight

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide, overwhelming manual contact tracing in many countries and resulting in widespread lockdowns for emergency containment. Large-scale digital contact tracing (DCT) has emerged as a potential solution to resume economic and social activity while minimi…