Cloe Cortes Balcells
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- Papers in international journals (3)
- Papers in conference proceedings (7)
- Technical reports (4)
- Seminar (11)
- Regular teaching (7)
- Miscellaneous lectures (11)
- Project supervision (14)
International journals
Published
Total: 3
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2025). Modeling the influence of restriction policies and perceived risk due to COVID-19 on daily activity scheduling, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 200(104604):. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2025.104604
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2025). Modeling Disease Spread: Integrating Mobility, Awareness, and Behavior, Transportation (accepted for publication on March 22, 2025) doi:10.1007/s11116-025-10613-w
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Multi-objective Optimization of Activity-Travel Policies for Epidemic Control: Balancing Health and Economic Outcomes on Socio-Economic Segments, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 27(101183):. doi:10.1016/j.trip.2024.101183
Papers in conference proceedings
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Bridging Epidemiology and Mobility: Creating a Policy-Aware Activity-Based Model for Epidemiological Studies. Proceedings of the 12th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART) June 18-20, 2024.
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Travel Behavior and Individual Choices in Infectious Disease Spread: Enhancing Activity-Based Models with Awareness and Testing Dynamics. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR) July 14-18, 2024.
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Mobility and Individual Choices in the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Enhancing Activity-Based Models with Awareness and Testing Dynamics. Proceedings of the International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC) April 1-3, 2024.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Enhancing Epidemiological Models with Activity-Travel Behavior and Risk Perception: A Simulation Framework for Policy Management . Proceedings of the 24th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) May 15-17, 2024.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2023). Interdisciplinary Behavioral Model (IBM) for Controlling Infectious Diseases. Proceedings of the 23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) May 10-12, 2023.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological model based on socio-economic variables in Switzerland. Proceedings of the 22nd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) May 18-20, 2022.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2021). Activity-based modeling and simulation of epidemics. Proceedings of the 21st Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) September 12-14, 2021.
Technical reports
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Modeling Disease Spread: Integrating Mobility, Awareness, and Behavior. Technical report 240909. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Modeling the Influence of Restriction Policies and Perceived Risk due to COVID-19 on Daily Activity Scheduling. Technical report 240703. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2023). Multi-objective Optimization of Activity-Travel Policies for Epidemic Control: Balancing Health and Economic Outcomes on Socio-Economic Segments. Technical report 230905. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). Disaggregate modeling and policy optimization for the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Technical report 221007. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
Seminars
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M., Travel Behavior and Individual Choices in Infectious Disease Spread: Enhancing Activity-Based Models with Awareness and Testing Dynamics. IATBR 2024, July 14, 2024, Vienna, Austria
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Bridging Epidemiology and Mobility: Creating a Policy-Aware Activity-Based Model for Epidemiological Studies. HEART 2024, June 18, 2024, Helsinki, Finland
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Modeling the Influence of Perceived Risk due to COVID-19 on Daily Activity Scheduling through an Endogenous Choice Set Formation Approach. DCM 2024, June 07, 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Cortes Balcells, C., Torres, F., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Enhancing Epidemiological Models with Activity-Travel Behavior and Risk Perception: A Simulation Framework for Policy Management. STRC 2024, May 15, 2024, Ascona, Switzerland
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M., Mobility and Individual Choices in the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Enhancing Activity-Based Models with Awareness and Testing Dynamics. ICMC 2024, April 01, 2024, Puerto Varas, Chile
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M., Activity-Based Modeling for capturing Dynamics of Mobility, Awareness, and Individual Choices in Disease Spread. Internal Seminar 2024, February 05, 2024, Barcelona, Spain
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Interdisciplinary Behavioral Model (IBM) for Controlling Infectious Diseases. STRC 2023, May 10, 2023, Ascona, Switzerland
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological model based on socio-economic variables in Switzerland. STRC 2022, May 18, 2022, Ascona, Switzerland
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Disaggregation of a SIRD model for policy testing in targeted groups of the population. WORKSHOP ETHZ 2022, April 27, 2022, Annecy, France
- Cortes Balcells, C., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M., Agent-based epidemiological models. STRC 2021, September 13, 2021, Ascona, Switzerland
- Cortes Balcells, C., and Bierlaire, M., Agent-based epidemiological models: Importance of dissagregation in SARS-CoV-2 models for policy decision making. Internal Seminar 2020, September 24, 2020, Lausanne, Switzerland
Regular teaching
- Optimization and Simulation
- Year: Spring 2025
- Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Lea Ricard, Pavel Ilinov
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2025
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2024
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Evangelos Paschalidis, Negar Rezvany, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Pavel Ilinov
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Optimization and Simulation
- Year: Spring 2024
- Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Lea Ricard, Pavel Ilinov
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2024
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2023
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Evangelos Paschalidis, Nicola Ortelli, Janody Pougala, Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Optimization and Simulation
- Year: Spring 2023
- Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Selin Atac
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2023
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2022
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Silvia Varotto, Nicola Ortelli, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Tom Haering
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Optimization and Simulation
- Year: Spring 2022
- Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Silvia Varotto, Selin Atac, Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2022
Miscellaneous lectures
- Bayesian Estimation; Individual Prediction
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Bayesian estimation and Individual prediction, January 30, 2025
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Pavel Ilinov
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Evangelos Paschalidis
- Hybrid Choice Models
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, January 29, 2025
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Assistants: Negar Rezvany, Pavel Ilinov
- Logit Mixtures; Combining Data (SP and RP)
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 13, 2024
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Evangelos Paschalidis
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Nicola Ortelli
- Nested logit; Aggregate forecasting
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 12, 2024
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Assistants: Pavel Ilinov, Evangelos Paschalidis
- Logit Mixtures; Combining Data (SP and RP)
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, January 31, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Evangelos Paschalidis
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Janody Pougala, Negar Rezvany
- Nested logit; Aggregate forecasting
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, January 30, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Assistants: Selin Atac, Tom Haering, Negar Rezvany
- Logit Estimation and Specification Testing
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, January 29, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Tom Haering
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Marija Kukic, Nicola Ortelli
- Hybrid Choice Models
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, March 11, 2022
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Silvia Varotto
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Selin Atac
- Nested Logit; Aggregate Forecasting
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, March 08, 2022
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Selin Atac
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Tom Haering
- Introduction; Logit Estimation and Testing
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, March 07, 2022
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Assistants: Janody Pougala, Selin Atac, Negar Rezvany
- Introduction; Logit Estimation and Testing
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 08, 2021
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Tim Hillel
- Assistant: Cloe Cortes Balcells
Project supervision
Masters theses
- Antoine Goupil de Bouille
- Section: Mathematics
- Optimizing Gas Storage Strategies: Addressing Price Fluctuations and Leakage through a Mercuria Case Study
- Supervision:Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Fabian Torres
- Expert:
- 20/02/2024-24/06/2024
- Dixit Sabharwal
- Section: Communication Systems
- Modeling the Influence of Fear on Daily Activity Scheduling during a Pandemic through an Endogenous Choice Set Formation Approach.
- Supervision:Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Janody Pougala
- Expert:
- 19/09/2023-29/01/2024
- Mattia Mariantoni
- Section: Mathematics
- Targeted COVID-19 policies in Switzerland: A review of different optimization strategies.
- Supervision:Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Nour Dougui
- Expert: Joseph Lemaitre
- 20/02/2022-24/06/2022
Semester projects
- Generating a synthetic population with health and COVID-19 information, Aline Janvier, January 15, 2024
- Modeling Individual Activity Schedules and Behavior Changes in COVID-19 Using Metaheuristic Optimization, Pierre Alexis Hellich, January 15, 2024
- Targeting population to evaluate COVID-19 strategies based on activity-travel behavior., Antoine Goupil De Bouillé, June 03, 2023
- Predicting activity schedules of the population considering non-pharmaceutical interventions, Arthur Nussbaumer, June 03, 2023
- Studying socio-economic variables through the different waves of SARS-CoV-2, Clément Dauvilliers, June 03, 2022
- Drawing infection probabilities based on socio-economic characteristics using ML Causal Inference, Hannah Gelblat, February 04, 2022
- Drawing infection probabilities based on socio-economic characteristics using ML Causal Inference, Mathias Nuris, February 04, 2022
- Adding an Epidemiological penalty in MATSim to study the impact of SARS-CoV-2 in mobility, Florent Zolliker (SMA), January 31, 2022
- Designing a MATSIM environment to study the impact of SARS-CoV-2 in mobility, Antoine Crettenand, June 11, 2021
- Designing a MATSIM environment to study the impact of SARS-CoV-2 in mobility, Chantal Gressier (SMA), June 03, 2021
- Designing a MATSim environment for a vehicle sharing system as a transport mode, Paula Vogg (SGC), January 29, 2021