Researcher to track spread of disease, malware and power outages
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 13:21
in Mathematics & Economics
An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations and malware across wireless computer networks, as well as how a blackout occurring on one major power grid can cause a cascade of additional neighboring networks to fail.