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Ritwick Mishra

2 accepted papers

2026

Information Theoretic Optimal Surveillance for Epidemic Prevalence in Networks

AAAI 2026technical

Estimating the true prevalence of an epidemic outbreak is a key public health problem. This is challenging because surveillance is usually resource intensive and biased. In the network setting, prior work on cost sensitive disease surveillance has focused on choosing a subset of individuals (or node

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Reconstructing an Epidemic Outbreak Using Steiner Connectivity

AAAI 2023technical

Only a subset of infections is actually observed in an outbreak, due to multiple reasons such as asymptomatic cases and under-reporting. Therefore, reconstructing an epidemic cascade given some observed cases is an important step in responding to such an outbreak. A maximum likelihood solution to th…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar