Research

Published Work

  • A.M. Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, Societal and economic factors associated with COVID-19 indicate that developing countries suffer the most. Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 10, 637-644, August 2020. https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v10i1.1357

  • A.M. Selvitella, Liam Carolan, Justin Smethers, Christopher Hernandez, and Kathleen Lois Foster, “A spatio-temporal investigation of the growth rate of COVID-19 incidents in Ohio early in the pandemic”, The Ohio Journal of Science 121 (2):forthcoming.

  • A.M. Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, Bayesian detection ad uncertainty quantification of the first change point of the COVID-19 case curve in the Midwest: Timeliness of non-pharmaceutical interventions. ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health & ICLR 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics.

  • A.M. Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, A higher order Taylor expansion of the initial trajectory of COVID-19 cases and deaths via Bayesian hierarchical model: a toy problem and possible public health insights. ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health.

  • Kathleen Lois Foster and A.M. Selvitella, Government measures against COVID-19 must be determined according to the socio-economic status of the country. ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health.

  • Kale Menchhofer, Nathan Mills, Kathleen Lois Foster, and A.M. Selvitella. COVID-19 incidence in the Indiana's secondary school system through a Conditional Gaussian model and an age-structured compartmental model. ICLR 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics.

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Talks and Seminars

  • 15th April 2021, ECMI 2021 (Virtual): Kathleen Lois Foster and Alessandro Maria Selvitella. Government measures against the COVID-19 pandemic must be determined according to the socio-economic status of the country.

  • 15th April 2021, ECMI 2021 (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster. A higher-order Taylor expansion of the initial trajectory of COVID-19 cases and deaths via Bayesian hierarchical models: a toy problem and possible public health insights.

  • 8th May 2021, ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, Bayesian detection ad uncertainty quantification of the first change point of the COVID-19 case curve in the Midwest: Timeliness of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

  • 8th May 2021, ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, A higher order Taylor expansion of the initial trajectory of COVID-19 cases and deaths via Bayesian hierarchical model: a toy problem and possible public health insights.

  • 8th May 2021, ICLR 2021 Workshop on AI for Public Health: Kathleen Lois Foster and A.M. Selvitella, Government measures against COVID-19 must be determined according to the socio-economic status of the country.

  • 8th May 2021, ICLR 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster, Bayesian detection ad uncertainty quantification of the first change point of the COVID-19 case curve in the Midwest: Timeliness of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

  • 8th May 2021, ICLR 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics (Virtual): Kale Menchhofer, Nathan Mills, Kathleen Lois Foster, and A.M. Selvitella. COVID-19 incidence in the Indiana's secondary school system through a Conditional Gaussian model and an age-structured compartmental model.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021 (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella and Kathleen Lois Foster. A higher-order Taylor expansion of the initial trajectory of COVID-19 cases and deaths via Bayesian hierarchical models: a toy problem and possible public health insights.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021(Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella, Nate Olson, and Kathleen Lois Foster. Optimal egg-packing in polygons and COVID-19: closed spaces, social distancing, and mask usage.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021 (Virtual): Alessandro Maria Selvitella, Charissa Hoang, Duy Anh Do, and Kathleen Lois Foster. The topology of COVID-19 diffusion: the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions, comparisons with seasonal influenza, and similarities among US regions.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021 (Virtual): Kale Menchhofer, Nathan Mills, Kathleen Lois Foster, and Alessandro Maria Selvitella. COVID-19 incidence in the Indiana's secondary school system through a Conditional Gaussian model and an age-structured compartmental model.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021 (Virtual): Noel Schutt, Kathleen Lois Foster, and Alessandro Maria Selvitella. On the effects of healthcare overextension on increased mortality rate in the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • 10th-13thth May 2021, GLBIO 2021 (Virtual): Kathleen Lois Foster and Alessandro Maria Selvitella. Government measures against the COVID-19 pandemic must be determined according to the socio-economic status of the country.

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Ongoing Projects

  • Duy Anh Do, Graduate Research Assistant (Stat 520) “Statistical Learning Methods in Wireless Communications and COVID-19", Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Jucoen Yeater, Online Assistant (STAT 340) “Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and COVID-19 epidemic” Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Madelyn Buhr and Sophia Petrov, h-option students (STAT 340) “Mathematical Models in Ecology and Epidemiology”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Wei Lin Xue “Public Policy and Health System Administration in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Isabella Haraguchi, Alexandra Macias, and Jean-Baptiste Johnson (STAT 490) “Testing COVID-19: US vs other countries”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Kale Menchhofer, Timothy Coburn, and Nathan Mills (STAT 490) “COVID-19 and school reopening”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Kale Menchhofer (STAT 512) “Compartmental Models for school reopening and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Jeremiah Miller (STAT 490) “COVID-19 and use of masks in Allen County”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella, Co-Supervisor: Prof. A. Robertson, Indiana University.

  • Ryan Koenig and Neal Birchfield (STAT 490) “Simulation of COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Sam Scott (STAT 490 and STAT 512) “Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic: SARS 1 vs SARS 2”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Alyssa Laughlin (STAT 490 and STAT 340) “Age-dependency in the COVID-19 pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Emma Kentner (STAT 490) “Data Visualization of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Charissa Hoang (STAT 490 and STAT 512) “Underreporting in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • STAT 512 Class “Epidemiology and Wireless Technologies: The COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Manasse Kwete (STAT 512) “COVID-19 and Media Coverage”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Justin Fisher and Bradley Atchinson (STAT 512) “Interactive Plotting of COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Katelyn Gutwein, Kaylyn O'Dell, and Zongwei Li (STAT 512) “A simple Compartmental Model of COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Nate Olson (STAT 512) “Reinforcement Learning and the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Liam Carolan, Christopher Hernandez, and Justin Smethers (STAT 512) “Spatio-Temporal Models and the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Clare Cholewa (STAT 512) “COVID-19 and Healthcare burden”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Duy Anh Do, Savannah Farney, and Kangah Kouassi (STAT 512) “US COVID-19 Policy vs other countries”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Jordan Martin and Isaac Smith (STAT 512) “Meta-Analysis of Mental Health and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Karun Franklin, Mark Rice, and Julian Robbins (STAT 512) “Reproduction Number in Epidemiology and COVID-19” Fall 2020 STAT 512, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Eaint Aung Win, Sarah Buhta, Jaima Ferguson, Ishag Gedio, Ali Gill, Emma Gill, Graciela Jimenez, Collin Kindinger, Anna Krishtaleva, Kristen Murphy, Jessica Notestine, David Rhoades, Carson Skinner, and Brooklyn Sweet (STAT 340) “The use of Mobility Data in the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Derek McBride and Julia Lehman (STAT 340) “Statistical Methods in Epidemiology”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Karun Franklin, Jarred Neff (STAT 490), Christopher Hernandez, and Charles Mombo (STAT 520) “Agent-based modeling and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Nate Olson (STAT 520) “Optimization and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Kamorudeen Taiwo, Sam Scott and Savannah Farney, (STAT 520) “Mask Usage and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Liam Carolan, (STAT 520) “Demographics of COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Duy Anh Do and Charissa Hoang, (STAT 520) “Topological Data Analysis and COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Matthew Capps, (STAT 490) “Bayesian and MCMC analysis of spatio-temporal models of COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Pritham Sambatur (Service-Learning Research Assistant) “Crime Distribution during COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Davin Nance, (STAT490) “Unemploynment during COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Lorenzo Guevara, (STAT 490) “Actuarial Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Noel Schutt, (STAT 520) “Healthcare Burden during COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Colton Heffelfinger, “Mortality Risk of COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Justin Fisher and Katelyn Gutwein, (STAT 520) “Social and Demographics Trends during COVID-19”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Spring 2021. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

Other Data Science and Biology Projects

  • Ashley Sanders, “Geometric and Machine Learning Methods in Biological Shape Analysis", Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Maria Dunn, Joshua Gilhespy, Connor Schultz, French Mackenzie, Cynthia Nyariki, and Ebenezer Zena (STAT 340) “Statistical Learning in Biomechanics”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Melissa Aurilus, Diana Baker, Audrey Gray, Jean-Baptiste Johnson, Minh Le, Teya Martinez, Lauren McConnell, Theresa Miller, Camryn Mosher, Matthew Podzielinski, Cadeyah Robinson, Emily Waybright, and Kelsey Woosley (STAT 340) “Statistical Methods in Ecology”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.

  • Tera Frick, Frank Planchon, Cole Cunnigham, Jacob Gladieux, Wenjix Liu, and Grant Yager (STAT 340) “The morphology of schizophrenic brains”, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 2020. Supervisor: Prof. A.M. Selvitella.