Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

Medina, C. M., Palacios J. A., Minin, V. M. (2025). Accounting for reporting delays in real-time phylodynamic analyses with preferential sampling. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(5): e1012970. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012970

Dogucu, M., Demirci, S., Bendekgey, H., Ricci, F. Z., & Medina, C. M. (2025). A Systematic Literature Review of Undergraduate Data Science Education Research. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2025.2486656

Ricci, F., Medina, C. M, & Dogucu, M. (2024). Designing and implementing an automated grading workflow for providing personalized feedback to open-ended data science assignments. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 15(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T5.1886

Parker, D.M., Medina, C., Bohl, J., Lon, C., Chea, S., Lay, S., Kong, D., Nhek, S., Man, S., Doehl, J.S.P., Leang, R., Kry, H., Rekol, H., Oliveira, F., Minin, V.M., Manning, J.E. (2023). Determinants of exposure to Aedes mosquitoes: a comprehensive geospatial analysis in peri-urban Cambodia. Acta Tropica, 239, 106829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.106829

Parker, D.M., Bruckner, T., Vieira, V.M., Medina, C., Minin, V.N., Felgner, P.L., Dratch, A., Zahn, M., Bartell, S.M. and Boden-Albala, B. (2021). Predictors of test positivity, mortality, and seropositivity during the early coronavirus disease epidemic, Orange County, California, USA. Emerging infectious diseases, 27(10), 2604. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2710.210103

Packages

The gradetools R package was created with data science instructors in mind. Assessing students with open-ended assignments (e.g. projects, interpretation questions) can be impactful, but can also be arduous when it comes to grading. gradetools helps automate the grading workflow and facilitates in creating individualized assignment feedback for students.

The phylodyn2 R package facilitates phylodynamic inference and analyses, and it implements methodology developed for accounting for reporting delays, by incorporating reporting probabilities in the preferential sampling model for real-time phylodynamic analyses.