About the Authors

Tapio Schneider

Contributed equally to this work with: Tapio Schneider, Oliver R. A. Dunbar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tapio@caltech.edu

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Oliver R. A. Dunbar

Contributed equally to this work with: Tapio Schneider, Oliver R. A. Dunbar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Jinlong Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Lucas Böttcher

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational Social Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dmitry Burov

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Alfredo Garbuno-Inigo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Estadística, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Ciudad de México, México

Gregory L. Wagner

Roles Software

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sen Pei

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States of America

Chiara Daraio

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Raffaele Ferrari

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Shaman

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.S. and Columbia University disclose partial ownership of SK Analytics. J.S. discloses consulting for BNI. The California Institute of Technology has filed a patent application covering the epidemic management and control methods described in this paper. All other authors declare no competing interests.