OpinionMarch 29, 2020
As COVID-19 Accelerates, Governments Must Harness Mobile Data to Stop Spread
Despite privacy concerns, “contact tracing” using GPS data may be our best bet to contain this large and fast-growing pandemic
Stories by Shashi Shekhar and Apurv Hirsh Shekhar
Shashi Shekhar is McKnight Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of "Spatial Computing." Apurv Hirsh Shekhar is an MD candidate at Yale School of Medicine and an honors graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied Public Health and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.