Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has approved funding for 11 projects under MATRICS scheme for studying Mathematical modelling and computational aspects to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most of these studies attempt to propose mathematical/ simulation models to account for various factors relevant to COVID-19 by modifying the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) models. Some of the factors are heterogeneity of population, the role of asymptomatic population, migration and quarantine, the effect of social distancing and lockdown, socioeconomic factors and so on. These studies will be primarily aimed to study Indian conditions and will provide an estimate of Basic Reproduction Number, the qualitative indicator of the degree of contagiousness of the disease. These will be helpful to forecast future pandemic by using the data available and provide fundamental insights into the kinetics and management of infectious diseases.

The proposed studies also aim to identify the maximum likelihood infection tree when infection reports and contact network structure are known to substantially reduce the efforts of the administration by targeting a subset of manageable size. They will address the spread of the pandemic and the impact of preventive issues through a parametric prediction process with an outcome consisting of a packaged solution in the form of usable software which may be made available for ready use by the Government of India and identify possible cure of COVID-19 through the study of DNA structures by creating patterns of DNA of different viruses.

These studies of disease transmission dynamic models supported under the MATRICS Special call on COVID-19 will help to estimate parameter sets and provide control mechanisms of the spread of COVID-19 and also help the frontline health professionals and policymakers to define effective measures.

A good number of proposals had been received from across the country in the first phase under the SERB’s special call for proposal under the MATRICS scheme.

The allotted projects are the following: 

S.No	Project name	PI Name	Institution
	Modelling and Forecasting of COVID-19 pandemic	Prof. Mahendra Kumar Verma	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
	Mathematical Modelling of Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 and its Control	Prof. Mini Ghosh	VIT University Chennai
	Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of COVID-19 Outbreak in India	Prof. Siddhartha Pratim Chakrabarty	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
	Modelling, Analysis and Prediction for SARS-CoV-2 Infections	Prof. Utpal Manna	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
	Bayesian Individual-level modeling of the spread of COVID-19 Pandemic.	Prof. Sharvari Rahul Shukla	SYMBIOSIS International University
	Anatomy of COVID-19 transmission dynamics: A modelling and computational approach from Indian perspective	Prof. Nandadulal Bairagi	Jadavpur University
	Effects of Nonpharmaceutical Measures on COVID-19 Pandemic in India and Network-based Forecast Beyond Relaxation of Lockdown	Dr. Surajit Panja	Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati
	A network optimization-based prediction model for COVID 19 outbreak tree	Dr. Goutam Sen	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
	Optimization of lockdown, testing and isolating strategies to contain Covid-19 in India	Dr. Harshwardhan H. Katkar	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
	Identification of possible cure of COVID-19 through study of DNA structures through Iterated Function Systems	Dr. Pratibha	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
	Multi-cluster models for epidemic spread and evaluation based on data driven parameterization	Dr. Arzad Alam kherani	Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai

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