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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
- [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.
- [June 2025] We have welcomed our forth cohort of Irvine Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Undergraduate Data Science (ISI-BUDS) participants. The cohort consists of 16 undergraduate students from all over the country. Group member Jessalyn Sebastian co-mentored one of the student research teams.
- [June 2025] Group member Isabel Zhang was selected as a Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellow for Summer 2025!
- [June 2025] Group members Jessalyn Sebastian and Christian Bernal Zelaya are attending WNAR 2025 in Whistler, B.C., Canada! Update: Congradulations to Christian for winning the best WNAR student oral presentation award and to Jessalyn for being a runner up in the WNAR student written paper competition!!!
- [June 2025] Catalina Medina successfully defended her dissertation! She is starting her faculty job as an Assistant Professor of Data Science at CSU Channel Islands in Fall 2025.
