Welcome

I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health. I am also affiliated with the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program.

I completed my PhD in Biomathematics at UCLA in 2012 under the guidance of Marc A. Suchard. Generally, I work on mathematical and statistical problems related to stochastic processes in biomedical and evolutionary science.

My methodological and theoretical interests are:

  • Inference for stochastic processes
  • Computational statistics
  • Nonparametric inference
  • Optimization
  • Algorithms
  • Parallel computing / GPUs
  • Machine learning

My work has practical applications in many fields, including:

  • Genetics
  • Evolution
  • Infectious diseases
  • Public health

Please contact me if you would like to know more about my work.

Recent News (older )

07 May 2013 New article: Counting processes for correlated binary responses with Dan Zelterman.
14 March 2013 The article Diversity, Disparity, and Evolutionary Rate Estimation for Unresolved Yule Trees with Marc A. Suchard has been published online in Systematic Biology.
07 January 2013 Now posted on arXiv: Integrals of general birth-death processes.

Upcoming talks (older )

01 August 2013: I’ll be giving a talk at the IMS New Researchers Conference on counting processes for dependent outcomes, or maybe Markov processes on networks a few days before the JSM at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Montréal.
04 August 2013: My talk Markov-dependent models for correlated binary responses will be in session 304 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montréal.
18 September 2013: I’ll be presenting some recent work at the University of Connecticut Department of Statistics Colloquium. Topic coming soon.

© Forrest W. Crawford 2013