Showing the UCI Anteater hand sign next to the anteater model in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. More formal headshot and bio.
Volodymyr M. Minin
Professor, Department of Statistics
Associate Director, Infectious Disease Initiative
Honors Program Director, School of Information & Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Co-Director, Irvine Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Undergraduate Data Science (ISI-BUDS)
Donald Bren Hall 2068
Box 354322
Irvine, CA 92697-1250
Professor, Department of Statistics
Associate Director, Infectious Disease Initiative
Honors Program Director, School of Information & Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Co-Director, Irvine Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Undergraduate Data Science (ISI-BUDS)
Donald Bren Hall 2068
Box 354322
Irvine, CA 92697-1250
News and highlights:
news archive
- [October 2025] Thanasi Bakis, Jessalyn Sebastian, and I taught an online mini-course "Introduction to Bayesian Statistics with Applications" organized by the Internantional Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (course info, github repo, lecture videos).
- [August 2025] New pre-prints:
- Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes by Thanasi Bakis et al.
- The signal is not flushed away: Inferring the effective reproduction number from wastewater data in small populations by Issac Goldstein et al.
- Unjustified Poisson assumptions lead to overconfident estimates of the effective reproductive number, our collaboration with Barbora Němcová and Johannes Bracher, lead by Barbora.
