Jean-Gabriel Young

Jean-Gabriel Young

Assistant Professor

Affiliated with the CDL

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Vermont, VT, USA, where I lead the Complex Data Lab. 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.

Before joining UVM, 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 received my BS and PhD in Physics from Université Laval, under the guidance of Prof. Louis J. Dubé and Prof. Patrick Desrosiers.

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Latest publications

2026 |
preprint

Emergent contagion complexity: Disentangling mechanistic complexity from correlated heterogeneity

K. Tang, D. Kaiser, W. H. W. Thompson, J.-G. Young, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and N. W. Landry
2026 |
preprint

The nestedness of higher-order networks

T. LaRock, Y. Zhang, J.-G. Young, N. Eikmeier, R. Lambiotte, and N. W. Landry
2026 |
preprint

Simpson's paradox explains the ubiquity of nonlinear, threshold, and complex contagions

L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, J.-G. Young, W. H. W. Thompson, and G. St-Onge
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