Research

My research interest reside near the intersection of applied mathematics and statistics, including applications of order statistics, information theory, nonlinear dynamics, and stochastic processes.  Specific topics are listed below followed  by a list of publications.

Research Interests 

• • Entropy and mutual information estimation and applications

  • Mathematical and statistical modeling of complex systems

  • Scalable MCMC algorithms

  • Applied Probability 

Select Publications (see google scholar profile for full list of publications)

• • O Melikechi, AL Young, T Tang, T Bowman, D Dunson, J Johndrow, Limits of epidemic prediction using SIR models, Journal of Mathematical Biology 85 (4), 36

  • LL Duan, AL Young, A Nishimura, and DB Dunson, Bayesian Constraint Relaxation, Biometrika (2020)

  • HE Brown, AL Young, J Lega, TG Andreadis, J Schurich, A Comrie, Projection of climate change influences on US West Nile virus vectors, Earth interactions 19 (18), 1-18