A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America from mosquito-borne illnesses.
Assistant professor Yi Liu in SDSU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and her team of four undergraduate students are collaborating with associate professor Mike Wimberly of SDSU’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence on the project.
Wimberly knows how to interpret remote sensing data and has developed computational methods to project when conditions are right for populations of the mosquitoes that spread diseases to spike. But what he and his collaborators in Africa needed was a software product to take his early warning system out of the lab.
[All the best to them in their noble cause. God bless their efforts. Amen]
