ECE Deparmental Seminar

Analysis and Control of Epidemic Spreading on Networks

Prof. Ji Liu

Ji Liu Department of ECE, Stony Brook University
Friday, 3/30/18, 11:00am
Light Engineering 250

Abstract: The talk will address a distributed continuous-time bi-virus model for a system of groups of individuals. An in-depth stability analysis will be performed on a more generic model than has been explored in previous work, for both the disease free equilibrium and non-disease free equilibria. In addition, we will investigate sensitivity properties of nontrivial equilibria, and show an impossibility result for a distributed feedback control.

Bio: Ji Liu received the B.S. degree in information engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Prior to joining Stony Brook University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. His current research interests include distributed control and computation, multi-agent systems, social networks, epidemic networks, and power networks.