Agent-based modelling for epidemiology: EpiRust and BharatSim
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that epidemiology is incredibly complex: the millions of edge cases, what-ifs, and counterfactuals make modelling exceptionally difficult. One way of tackling this complexity is through agent-based modelling.
In this episode, Rebecca Parsons and Premanand Chandrasekaran are joined by Thoughtworks colleague Jayanta Kshirsagar and Gautam Menom, professor of physics and biology at Ashoka University. They discuss how Thoughtworks has been helping researchers in India using agent-based modelling with two custom-built tools: EpiRust and BharatSim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. I'm Rebecca Parsons, one of your |
| 0:09.9 | recurring co-hosts, the chief technology officer for ThoughtWorks, and I'm joined by our co-host Prem. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, everyone. My name is Prem. As Rebecca said, I play the role of tech director. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm one of the newer recurring hosts on this podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | And we are joined by two folks. |
| 0:30.6 | Jayenta, would you introduce yourself first, please? |
| 0:33.6 | Yes, hi, Rebecca. Jayanta here. |
| 0:36.6 | I have been part of engineering for research team for last |
| 0:39.9 | two and a half years, mostly working with agent-based simulation models. And Gautum, welcome. Hi, Rebecca and |
| 0:47.8 | Pram. My name is Gautam Mennon. I'm a professor of physics and biology at Ashoka University in India, |
| 0:53.5 | and I've been interested |
| 0:54.6 | in epidemiological modeling for some years and has recently partnered with ThoughtWorks with |
| 0:59.0 | EFR. |
| 1:00.0 | So let's start with why you're here. |
| 1:03.1 | We've got two different applications to talk about, but they are heavily related to each |
| 1:09.0 | other. |
| 1:10.0 | But let's start with Epperust. |
| 1:11.6 | Can you tell me what Epperast is and what it does and why it's named Epperust? |
| 1:19.8 | Sure, Rebecca. |
| 1:21.5 | So APRust is agent-based simulation model, which is specifically designed keeping epidemiology as a to-men in mind. |
| 1:29.1 | As the name itself suggests, it has two parts, AP and Rust. |
| 1:33.4 | So AP stands for epidemiology and the simulation tool has been implemented using Rust language. |
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