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Jean-Gabriel Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont (UVM), part of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. He is also affiliated with the Translational Global Infectious Diseases Research Center and the Vermont Complex Systems Institute.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Physics, Université Laval (Québec), under Prof. Louis J. Dubé and Patrick Desrosiers.
- M.S. and B.S. in Physics, Université Laval.
Research Interests: His work focuses on computational and statistical aspects of complex systems, including epidemiology, data science, and network theory. Key areas include network reconstruction, higher-order interactions, and the interplay between social dynamics and disease spread. He emphasizes methodologies like Bayesian inference and hyperbolic embedding of networks.
Publications: Over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Recent work explores governance networks, epidemic modeling, and hypergraph reconstruction.
Awards and Recognition:
- James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship (2018–2020).
- FOSS Award (2021) for contributions to open-source attribution analysis.
Grants and Funding: Supported by the Simons Foundation, NIH, and NSF grants focusing on network science and epidemiological modeling.
Labs and Teams: Leads the Joint Lab at UVM, collaborating on projects like the OCEAN mailing list dataset and cross-species coexpression analysis. Active in open-source ecosystems and equitable credit attribution in software development.
