Home page of Volodymyr Minin

Volodymyr M. Minin
Professor
Department of Statistics
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:

[April 2026] It is so much more comfortable announcing other peoples' awards, but here it is :) I was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
[April 2026] Christian Bernal Zelaya won the Beall Family Foundation Graduate Student Social Impact Award in Statistics. Congratulations, Christian!
[November 2025] New pre-print, in which Jessalyn Sebastian and I advocate for the integrated Brownian motion prior: Gaussian process priors with Markov properties for effective reproduction number inference.
[November 2025] Christian Bernal Zelaya has successfully advanced to PhD candidacy! Congrats!
[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.