Xin Lu

Hej Everyone! I'm a PhD student at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, I work most of the time at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University.

My researc interests are about evaluating and improving Respondent-driven sampling method (RDS), a network-based sampling strategy for HIV-related high-risk population surveys. I also work on cell phone-data based population tracking during earthquakes, network-based epidemic modeling of sexual transmitted diseases (STI), and designing of outbreak detection models for Symdromic Surveillance Systems in rural China.

I'm looking forward to exchanging ideas and collaborations in CSSS12. To get familiar with my background, here are some of my recent work:

"Predictability of population displacement after the 2010 Haiti earthquake". PNAS, 2012, in press.

"The sensitivity of respondent-driven sampling". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175: 191–216.

"Improved Response to Disasters and Outbreaks by Tracking Population Movements with Mobile Phone Network Data: A Post-Earthquake Geospatial Study in Haiti". PLoS Medicine, 2011; 8 (8): e1001083.

"Finding the Shortest Paths by Node Combination". Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2011, 217 (13) pp. 6401-6408.

Have a look at my Blog: http://xin-lu.blogspot.se/

or work on mobile phone data analysis: http://www.flowminder.org/

or work on Symdromic Surveillance Systems: http://www.issc-eu.com/

or the short official page at Karolinska Institutet: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=37885&a=119016&l=en

Looking forward to see all of you at CSSS12!