Volodymyr Minin Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association
Volodymyr Minin, statistics professor and honors program director at the UC Irvine Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the world’s largest community of statisticians and data scientists. This prestigious honor recognizes Minin’s exceptional contributions to statistical sciences and his commitment to advancing the field.
The ASA Fellow designation has been a significant recognition in the statistical community for nearly a century. Each year, the ASA Committee on Fellows may elect up to one-third of one percent of the association’s membership as fellows. Nominees must demonstrate an established reputation and have made outstanding contributions to statistical science in research, education, industry, government, or service to the ASA and the broader profession.
Minin’s research interests revolve around problems that require formulating stochastic models that can describe complex dynamics of biological systems and devising statistically rigorous and computationally efficient algorithms to fit these models to data. He is currently most active in infectious disease epidemiology, working on data integration for Bayesian inference of disease transmission model parameters and probabilistic forecasting. Minin’s other interests include phylogenetics, population genetics, and systems biology.
“Being recognized by the American Statistical Association (ASA) is incredibly meaningful to me,” said Minin. “I have been an ASA member for more than 20 years and attended my first Joint Statistical Meetings, the largest gathering of statisticians organized by ASA every year, as a wide-eyed graduate student back in 2004. During those early years, being involved with ASA helped me connect with other statisticians who shared my research interests. In other words, I was able to find ‘my people.’ Now, ASA is similarly helping early career researchers I am mentoring to find their communities of like-minded researchers. ASA is a great organization! I encourage all statistics graduate students to become members. It is my honor to be a part of ASA and to continue supporting its mission.”
Founded in 1839, the American Statistical Association serves members in more than 90 countries, advancing research, science, and technology; promoting sound statistical practice; informing public policy; and contributing to a world in which decisions are data-driven.
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