Dr Theofanis Sapatinas
Professor of Statistics

Location: Room 066 (University Campus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences Buiding, New Wing)
Postal Address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, CY 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Phone: 00-357-22894413
Fax: 00-357-22895072
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Academic Qualifications:

PhD in Statistics (Awarded: February 1994), Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
MSc in Statistics (Awarded: June 1991), Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
BSc in Mathematics (Awarded: November 1989), Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece

Appointments:

01/11/2010 - Today: Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus
01/10/2005-31/10/2010: Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus
15/01/2001-30/09/2005: Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus
01/08/1998-31/12/2000: Lecturer in Statistics in the (former) Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (current School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science) at the University of Kent, United Kingdom
01/02/1996-31/05/1998: Research Associate in the (former) Department of Mathematics (current School of Mathematics) at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom
01/10/1993-31/01/1996: Research Associate in the (former) Department of Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research (current College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences) at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Visiting Appointments:

01/01/2017-30/06/2017: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, USA
01/06/2014-31/07/2014: Visiting Professor, Departement de Génie Mathématique et Modélisation, INSA de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
01/01/2013-31/07/2013: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
01/05/2007-31/05/2007: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France

Editorial Duties:

Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal of Statistics (2013-2021 )
Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2012-2017)
Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics (2007-2009)
Guest co-Editor (with Brandon Whitcher): Special Issue on Wavelets in Statistics: Watering the Seed, International Journal on Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, Volume 2, Number 4, 2004

Research Interests:

Functional Data Analysis
Functional Time Series Analysis
Signal Detection and Goodness-of-Fit Testing in Ill-Posed Inverse Problems
Nonparametric Curve Estimation
Characterizations and Structural Properties of Probability Distributions

Publications, Software and Seminars:

Teaching (Academic Year 2021-2022):

MAS 361 Probability II (Fall Semester)
MAS 262 Statistics I (Spring Semester)
MAS 469 Topics in Probability and Statistics II (Spring Semester)

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Last update: 20th May 2022

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Dr Theofanis Sapatinas Professor of Statistics