Kevin Leder

Post Doctoral Fellow
Computational Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering
New York, NY 10065
Office: 415-417 E. 68th. Room 1131
Office phone:646-888-2809

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
My research previously focused on optimizing the efficiency of Monte Carlo algorithms when simulating events of low probability (i.e. rare events). Lately I have become interested in stochastic process and PDE models that arise from evolutionary analysis of biological systems.

Publications
  • Strongly efficient algorithms for light-tailed random walks: An old folk song sung to a faster new tune... (with J. Blanchet and P. Glynn) Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in 2008 (2009), P. L'Ecuyer and A. Owens (Editors). MCQMC Montreal.

  • Importance sampling for the weighted serve the longest queueing policy (with P. Dupuis and H. Wang) Mathematics of Operations Research Volume 34, 642-660 (2009). PDF

  • Large deviations and importance sampling for a tandem network with slow-down. (with P. Dupuis and H. Wang) QUESTA Volume 57, 71-83 (2007). PDF

  • On the Large Deviations Properties of the Weighted-Serve-the-Longest Queue Policy. (with P. Dupuis and H. Wang) Progress in Probability (2008), V. Sidoravicius and M. Vares (Editors). X EBP Brazil. PDF

  • Importance sampling for sums of random variables with regularly varying tails.(with P. Dupuis and H. Wang) ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation Volume 17, No. 14, 2007.


  • Submitted Publications (e-mail me for preprint)
  • On Lyapunov inequalities and subsolutions for efficient importance sampling (with J. Blanchet and P. Glynn)

  • Analysis of a splitting estimator for rare event probabilities in Jackson Networks (with J. Blanchet and Y. Shi)



  • Courses Taught
  • AM-120 Operations Research


  • Other interests
    Hiking, skiing, and running.