Research conducted by Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan, Dr. Tom Ewing and colleagues across campus was recently featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article. Their work examined how reporting on the Spanish flu spread in 1918 and featured digital humanities. To read the entire article visit http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Data-Project-on-1918-Flu/190457/. Dr. Ramakrishnan is the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He directs the Discovery Analytics Center, a university-wide effort that brings together researchers from computer science, statistics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering.
