Jessalyn Sebastian

PhD Student in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine

I am a PhD student studying Statistics at UCI, advised by Dr. Volodymyr Minin. My research interests include stochastic processes, Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian modeling with applications in infectious disease epidemiology, and statistics education.

My current methodological work focuses on Gauss-Markov stochastic process priors for \(R_t\), the effective reproduction number. I am also working on applied projects exploring respiratory virus transmission dynamics in Cambodia and tuberculosis transmission among immunocompromised individuals in Botswana.