Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020 – present

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 – 2020

Faculty Affiliate, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015 – present

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 – present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, 2010-2013
Advisor: Dr. A. Tartakovsky

Education

PhD, Statistics, Columbia University, 2010
Advisors: Dr. G. V. Moustakides, Dr. I. Karatzas
M. Phil, Statistics, Columbia University, 2010
M.A., Statistics, Columbia University, 2006
M.S., Mathematical Modeling in Modern Technologies & the Economy, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2005
Diploma in Applied Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2004

Ph.D. Students

  1. Yanglei Song (Statistics), Fall 2015 – Spring 2019.
    Some topics in Sequential Analysis
    Current Status: Graduated
    Placement: Assistant Professor at Queens University, Canada.  
  2. Aristomenis Tsopelakos (ECE), Summer 2018 – present.
  3. Anamitra Chauduri (Statistics),  Summer 2019 – present.
  4. Austin Warner (Statistics), Fall 2019 – present.
  5. Yiming Xing (Statistics), Fall 2019 – present.

 Teaching

Ranked as Excellent by the students:
  • Large Sample Inference (STAT 575) in Spring 2014, 2019
  • Probability and Measure II (STAT 554) in Spring  2017, 2018
  • Probability and Measure I (STAT 553) in Fall 2018, Fall 2019
  • Topics in Sequential Detection (STAT 578): Fall 2020
Courses Taught:
  • Probability and Measure I (STAT 553): Fall 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Probability and Measure II (STAT 554): Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Large Sample Theory (STAT 575): Spring 2014, 2015, 2019
  • Topics in Stochastic Processes (STAT 578): Fall 2013
  • Topics in Sequential Detection (STAT 578): Fall 2020
  • Topics in Sequential Design (STAT 578): Fall 2020
  • Probability and Statistics (STAT 400): Fall 2015, Spring 2017



	




		

	

	





		
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics