Epidemic spreading in Complex Networks

FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Tropical Medicine of the University of São Paulo - Brazil

About me

FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Tropical Medicine of the University of São Paulo and Volunteer Researcher at the Medical School of São Paulo State University (Unesp/Botucatu) studying aspects of epidemic spreading in human populations. Also, fundamental aspects of epidemic spreading models on complex networks, real-world applications with high-resolution data-driven models coupling human mobility and contact patterns, and echo chamber effects on Twitter networks.
Member of the CADDE Project (IMT-USP and University of Oxford).

Experience: High Performance Computing (Fortran, C), Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, geopandas, sympy, and others), data mining and analysis, GIS, LaTeX, Bash, Linux, HTML, CSS, Javascript, APIs, SQL.

Publications

2022

[15] Government inaction on COVID-19 vaccines contributes to the persistence of childism in Brazil
Lorena G. Barberia, Alexandra Boing, Luciana Santana, Wesley Cota, Leonardo S. Bastos
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2022;13: 100346 [Open Access]
[10.1016/j.lana.2022.100346]
[14] Modeling Communicable Diseases, Human Mobility, and Epidemics: A Review
David Soriano-Paños, Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Gourab Ghoshal, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Annalen der Physik, 2100482 (2022) [Open Access]
[10.1002/andp.202100482]

[13] Effects of infection fatality ratio and social contact matrices on vaccine prioritization strategies
Arthur Schulenburg, Wesley Cota, Guilherme S. Costa, Silvio C. Ferreira
Chaos 32, 093102 (2022)
arXiv:2201.02869
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p222supp
[10.1063/5.0096532]

[12] Data-driven approach in a compartmental epidemic model to assess undocumented infections
Guilherme S. Costa, Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 163 112520 (2022)
arXiv:2201.03476
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p221supp
[10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112520]

2021

[11] Infectious disease dynamics in metapopulations with heterogeneous transmission and recurrent mobility
Wesley Cota, David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas, Silvio C. Ferreira, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
New Journal of Physics 23 073019 (2021) [Open Access, video abstract available]
arXiv:2102.10614
[10.1088/1367-2630/ac0c99]

2020

[] Doctoral thesis: Spreading phenomena on complex networks and social systems
Wesley Cota
September, 2020
Doctor Scientiae (Physics)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Full text and information [Open Access]
Recorded defense (audio pt-br, slides in english)
Adviser: Silvio da Costa Ferreira Junior
Co-adviser: Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
[10] Outbreak diversity in epidemic waves propagating through distinct geographical scales
Guilherme S. Costa, Wesley Cota, Silvio da Costa Ferreira Junior
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043306 (2020) [Open Access]
arXiv:2011.03380
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/covid19brmetapopSI
In Portuguese: Modelagem do avanço da COVID-19 no interior do Brasil

See the Supplemental Material for details

[10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043306]


All videos

Other version: Metapopulation modeling of COVID-19 advancing into the countryside: an analysis of mitigation strategies for Brazil, medRxiv 2020.05.06.20093492 (2020)

[9] Monitoring the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil at municipal and federative units level
Wesley Cota
SciELOPreprints:362 (2020) [Open Access, description of the data]
Interactive page: English, Portuguese
[10.1590/SciELOPreprints.362]
[8] Modeling the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID-19 and the impact of mobility and social distancing interventions
Alex Arenas, Wesley Cota, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Sérgio Gómez, Clara Granell, Joan T. Matamalas, David Soriano-Paños, Benjamin Steinegger
Physical Review X 10, 041055 (2020) [Open Access]
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p202supp
[10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041055]

Other version: Derivation of the effective reproduction number ℛ for COVID-19 in relation to mobility restrictions and confinement, medRxiv 2020.04.06.20054320 (2020)

[7] Mathematical model for the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID-19
Alex Arenas, Wesley Cota, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Sérgio Gómez, Clara Granell, Joan T. Matamalas, David Soriano-Paños, Benjamin Steinegger
medRxiv 2020.03.21.20040022 [Open Access]
Download paper
[10.1101/2020.03.21.20040022]

2019

[6] Spectral properties and the accuracy of mean-field approaches for epidemics on correlated networks
Diogo H. Silva, Silvio C. Ferreira, Wesley Cota, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Claudio Castellano
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033024 (2019) [Open Access]
arXiv:1907.02144
[10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033024]
[5] Quantifying echo chamber effects in information spreading over political communication networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Michele Starnini
EPJ Data Science 8, 35 (2019) [Open Access]
arXiv:1901.03688
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p191supp
[10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0213-9]

2018

[4] Robustness and fragility of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic models on complex networks
Wesley Cota, Angélica S. Mata, Silvio C. Ferreira
Physical Review E 98, 012310 (2018)
arXiv:1804.08422
[10.1103/PhysRevE.98.012310]
[Conference poster]
[3] Griffiths phases in infinite-dimensional, non-hierarchical modular networks
Wesley Cota, Géza Ódor, Silvio C. Ferreira
Scientific Reports 8:9144 (2018) [Open Access]
arXiv:1801.06406
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p181supp
[10.1038/s41598-018-27506-x]
[Conference poster]

2017

[2] Optimized Gillespie algorithms for the simulation of Markovian epidemic processes on large and heterogeneous networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira
Computer Physics Communications 219C (2017) pp. 303-312
arXiv:1704.01557
Repository: wcota/dynSIS
[10.1016/j.cpc.2017.06.007]
[Conference poster]

2016

[1] Griffiths effects of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model on random power-law networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Géza Ódor
Physical Review E 93, 032322 (2016)
arXiv:1512.05274
[10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032322]