Miss Keyang Ni, Year-4 BSDS student, is one of the leading authors of the captioned paper which was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

Led by Dr. Qingpeng Zhang of SDSC, this study is a collective effort with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and Zhuhai Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Zhuhai, China. The team saw the urgent need for effective HIV prevention interventions among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), thus devising such research. They proposed a new method, RiskRank, to prioritize individuals in MSM social networks for interventions. Results show that the targeted interventions are effective in large-scale HIV epidemic control.

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