I’m a multidisciplinary scientist who specializes in biostatistics, epidemiology, and disease ecology. My research interests include leveraging messy observational data, Bayesian inference, vector-borne disease transmission, and mathematical modeling.
My work on COVID-19, in collaboration with many other talented researchers, has contributed to one of the most successful large-scale mitigation and monitoring programs in the country, Healthy Yolo Together.
My current research on building forecasting models for the glassy-winged sharpshooter is helping the CDFA, the USDA, and the table grape industry of Kern County set funding and control priorities for Pierce’s disease in the upcoming years.
I bring a mix of cutting-edge statistics training, classical education in writing and the liberal arts, years of collaboration across research disciplines, and a history of interpreting science to all audiences to every project I do.
Alec J. Schmidt - Biostatistics and Other Adventures 