Jean-Gabriel Young
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Vermont, VT, USA. I also am a faculty of the Translational Global Infectious diseases Research Center and the Vermont Complex Systems Center. My research is at the intersection of statistical inference, epidemiology, and complex systems.
Previously, I was a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems of the University of Michigan, where I was mentored by Prof. Mark Newman. I obtained my PhD in Physics from Université Laval, under the guidance of Prof. Louis J. Dubé and Prof. Patrick Desrosiers.
Selected Publications
Hypergraph reconstruction from uncertain pairwise observations
Nature Scientific Reports, Dec. 4, 2023
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online
EPJ Data Science, Jan. 24, 2022
Reconstruction of plant–pollinator networks from observational data
Nature Communications, June 23, 2021
Which contributions count? Analysis of attribution in open source
2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 18, 2021
Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement
Nature Physics, Feb. 24, 2020
Selected Press
Uncertain network science: Estimation techniques and applications
NERCCS 2022, April 1, 2022
Open source ecosystems need equitable credit across contributions
Nature Computational Science, Jan. 14, 2021
How you talk about coronavirus actually impacts its spread
CNET, April 27, 2020
Misinformation about an outbreak like Covid-19 is important public health data
STAT, April 7, 2020
Get the message: Scientists are modeling the way social interactions impact virus outbreaks such as COVID-19
Santa Fe Reporter, April 1, 2020