2024 Theo Cacoullos Memorial Lecture
Wilfrid S. Kendall, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick
Research Interests: probability theory, random processes, stochastic geometry, stochastic calculus, computer algebra in statistics and probability, perfect simulation, etc.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/kendall/
Invited Speakers
Ioannis Pitas, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Member of the Greek Committee on Artificial Intelligence
President of the International Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Academy (AIDA)
Research Interests: Computer vision, Machine learning, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, image/video processing, human-centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging, biomedical imaging, etc.
https://www.csd.auth.gr/en/member/ioannis-pitas/
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK
Research Interests: Bayesian time series analysis, finance, bioinformatics, medicine, signal processing, quality control, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kostas-triantafyllopoulos-b7737173/?originalSubdomain=uk
Vlad Stefan Barbu, Associate Professor, University of Rouen-Normandy
Director of the Research Federation Normandy-Mathematics
Scientific Secretary of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics
Research Interests: Markov, Hidden Markov, semi-Markov and Hidden semi-Markov processes, statistical inference for stochastic processes, parametric and nonparametric inference, biostatistics, entropy and divergence measures, model selection, etc.
https://lmrs.univ-rouen.fr/fr/persopage/barbu
Bojana Milošević, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Research Interests: Characterizations of statistical distributions, statistical inference, missing data imputation, statistical inference for incomplete data, etc.
https://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~bojana.milosevic/en/
Wei Xing, Associate Professor, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, AI for Electronic Design Automation, AI4Science, etc.
George Afendras, Associate Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Research Interests: Families of Distributions, orthogonal polynomials, correlation identities, dispersion barriers, distance distributions, asymptotic statistics, cross-validation, model selection criteria, dependency measures, statistical machine learning, etc.
https://math.auth.gr/member/afendras/
Navid Seyed Mirpoorian, Doctoral Candidate, University of Sheffield, UK
Research Interests: financial mathematics, risk management, machine learning, stochastic portfolio theory, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/navid-mirpoorian-aa8622225/?originalSubdomain=ir
Veronica Vigna, Doctoral Candidate, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Research Interests: Markov chains, grey-Markov models, energy forecasting consumption, econometrics, etc.