CitySEIRCast: an agent-based city digital twin for pandemic
analysis and simulation
Shakir Bilal, Wajdi Zaatour, Yilian Alonso Otano, Arindam Saha,
Ken Newcomb, Soo Kim, Dongjun Kim, Raveena
Ginjala, Derek Groen, Edwin Michael
- Background
- High‑resolution city‑level epidemic forecasting is needed.
- Problem Definition
- Agent‑based modeling + real‑world city data → timely forecasts.
- Method
- City digital twin + agent‑based SEIR
- Automated, scalable pipelines on hybrid cloud/HPC
- Results
- Realistic city‑level forecasts
- Actionable for policy planning
- Role
- Data analysis
- HPC setup
- Python and C++
- App build
- Azure hosting