In this episode we talk with Anil Vullikanti from UVA and Li Xiong from Emory about their involvement as co-PIs on PREPARE and the workshops they've planned on data privacy & security and social, economic, behavioral, & governance issues surrounding pandemics. We hope you enjoy this introduction to a few more members of our team!

Anil Vullikanti is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and at the Biocomplexity Institute. Vullikanti‘s research interests are in the broad areas of approximation and randomized algorithms, dynamical systems, wireless networks, social networks, computation epidemiology and the modeling, simulation and analysis of socio-technical systems. Read his full bio here: https://biocomplexity.virginia.edu/person/anil-vullikanti

Li Xiong is a Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University. She and her research lab, Assured Information Management and Sharing (AIMS), conduct research on algorithms and methods for big data management, machine learning, and data privacy and security, in the context of spatiotemporal and health data. Read her full bio here: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~lxiong/