Fighting the Pandemic with Swords and Magic
In this workshop conducted by research scholars Shreya Chowdhury and Shreyas Joshi, participants explored the ‘Corrupted Blood’ incident in the online game World of Warcraft, wherein a pandemic besieged an entire virtual city. They learnt how real-world disease containment strategies such as contact tracing, testing, and quarantine can be deployed to battle virtual pandemics.
About the Research Scholar
Shreya Chowdhury is a research scholar in the department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is trained as a Chemical Engineer, who completed her Bachelors from National Institute of Technology Raipur and Masters from Indian Institute of Technology-BHU. Presently, she is working in Prof Narendra Dixit's group on Therapeutic engineering at Indian Institute of Science.
About the Research Scholar
Shreyas Jain is a chemical engineering graduate, currently pursuing a PhD in computational biology from the department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
