Vasileios Maroulas

Office address: ***B Ayres Hall, 1403 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996 Office phone #: 865-***-****

Email address: abpa03@r.postjobfree.com, Website: www.math.utk.edu/~maroulas

Research Interests

Bayesian Nonlinear Estimation and Filtering.

Large Deviations and Applications to Image Analysis, Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations.

Sequential Analysis and applications to object detection and estimation.

Stochastic optimization

Stochastic aviation

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, August 2010-.

Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of

Minnesota. September, 2008-July, 2010.

Education

PhD (2008), Small noise large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems.

Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja.

MSc (2006), Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, NC. Advisor: Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja.

BSc (2003), Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. Major in Applied

Mathematics.

Awards and Honors

Professional Development Award, University of Tennessee.

P.I. (co-P.I. A. Nebenfuhr, R. Dixit, P. Stinis, A. Geitmann) NIMBioS Investigative Workshop.

P.I. (co-P.I. A. Nebenfuhr) NIMBioS Summer REU 2011.

IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2010.

Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship. Lockheed Martin. 2008-2010.

Eleneio Doctoral Thesis Award. Greek Statistical Society, April 2009.

Travel Award for the 33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their applications. Berlin,

Germany, Summer 2009.

Travel Award for the 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their applications. Summer 2007,

Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

UNC Travel Award .Graduate School, UNC. Summer 2007.

A. Bem Prize for the best project in mathematical programming. Spring 2002. Department of

Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece.

National Award for the best performance as an undergraduate student. Fall 2001. Department of

Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece.

Publications

A. Large deviations theory and applications:

1. Small noise large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems,

PhD Dissertation (2008).

2. Large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic dynamical systems, (with A.

Budhiraja and P. Dupuis), Annals of Probability, 36, no 4 (2008), 1390-1420.

3. Large deviations for stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms, (with A. Budhiraja and P.

Dupuis). Bernoulli, 16(1), 234-256, 2010.

4. Variational representations for continuous time processes, (with A. Budhiraja and P.

Dupuis), Annales de l Institut de Henri Poincare, 47(3), pp. 725-747, 2011.

5. Large deviations for infinite dimensional stochastic systems with jumps. London

Mathematical Society: Mathematika, 57(1), pp. 175-192, 2011.

6. Large deviations for optimal filtering with fractional Brownian moti on (with J.

Xiong), Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Under Revision.

7. Large deviations for mean-field stochastic differential equations with jumps (with Y.

Cai and J. Huang). Submitted.

B. Statistical filtering and estimation with application in multi-target tracking for defense and

biology:

8. A sequential procedure for simultaneous detection and state estimation of Markov

signals (with E. Grossi and M. Lops). The Proc. of IEEE Int. Symp. Info. Th, 654-658,

2009.

9. Improved particle filters for multi-target tracking. (with P. Stinis). Journal of

Computational Physics, 231(2), pp.602-611, 2012.

10. Tracking spawning objects, (with R. Mahler). IET Radar, Sonar& Navigation, Under

Revision .

11. Tracking intracellular rapid movements: a Bayesian random set approach (with A.

Nebenf hr). Submitted.

C. Miscellaneous:

12. Error analysis of stochastic flight trajectory prediction models. Journal of Applied

Statistics, 39(8), pp. 1825-1841, 2012.

13. Phylogenetic Ornestein-Uhlenbeck regression curves (with D.-C. Jhwueng).

Submitted.

Invited Talks

University of Texas, Arlington, Electrical Engineering Colloquium Seminar, September 2012.

Shandong University, Jinan, China, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, May 2012.

Peking University, Beijing, China, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, May 2012.

Normal Beijing University, Beijing, China, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, May 2012.

Oak Ridge National Labs, Colloquium Seminar, May 2012.

Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, December 2011.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, February 2010.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Applied Math Colloquium Seminar, February 2010.

Duke University, Durham, NC, Statistics Colloquium Seminar, January 2010.

Carleton University, Ottawa, CAN, Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium Seminar, January 2010.

Honorarium Eleneio Lecture, Greek Statistical Meeting, Chania, Greece, April 2009.

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, December 2009.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Statistics Colloquium Seminar, April 2009.

National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, July 2008.

University of Athens, Greece, Statistics Seminar, June 2008.

Columbia University, New York, NY, Probability Seminar, March 2008.

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Colloquium Seminar February 2008.

State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, February 2008.

University of Virginia, Charleston, VA, Mathematics Colloquium Seminar, February 2008.

Brown University, Providence, RI, Applied Mathematics Seminar, January 2008.

Contributed Talks

Stochastic Modeling and Data Analysis, Chania, Greece, June 2012.

Quantitative Methods in Defense and National Security, George Mason, Fairfax, VA, May 2012.

Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, Rome, Italy, June 2011.

SIAM Student Chapter. University of Tennessee. Knoxville, December 2010.

University of Tennessee, Probability Seminar, September 2010, March 2012.

University of Minnesota, IMA Postdoctoral Seminar, December 2009.

University of Minnesota, Applied Mathematics Seminar, November 2009.

33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their applications, Berlin, Germany, July 2009.

IMA, University of Minnesota, Postdoctoral Seminar, April 2009.

University of Minnesota, Probability Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, September 2008.

IMA, University of Minnesota, Postdoctoral Seminar, September 2008.

32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their applications, Urbana, IL, August 2007.

Industrial and Governmental Research Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, Lockheed Martin, Eagan, MN. September 2008-July 2010.

Research Assistant, SAS Institute, Economics applications of Time Series Analysis (Model Selection

and Forecasting). Summer 2006. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Research Assistant (with Dr. George Psacharopoulos) on Applied Economics. Spring 2003.

Parliament of Greece, Greece.

Statistical Consulting Experience

Consultant (with Dr. Deborah Fleming) on Statistical Analysis about Menopause and Associated

Oral Manifestations. Spring 2006. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-CH.

Consultant (with Dr. Jerrid Freedman, Prof. J.S. Marron) on Statistical Analysis about Re asons for

a student to abandon Post-Secondary Education . Spring 2005. Department of Statistics and

Operations Research, UNC-CH.

Consultant (with Dr. Molly Losh, Prof. J.S. Marron) on Statistical Analysis about Autistic children

and effects of autism on their siblings . Fall 2004. Department of Statistics and Operations Research,

UNC-CH.

Advising/Mentoring Postdoctoral Fellows, Graduate & Undergraduate Students

Postdoctoral:

1. Dwueng-Chwuan (Tony) Jhwueng, NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Phylogenetic

comparative methods for comparative analysis under non-tree-like evolution,

September 2010- January 2012. Currently Assistant Professor in Statistics, Feng-Chia

University, Taiwan.

Graduate:

A. PhD Students:

1. Kai Kang (Fall 2012-)

B. Master Students:

1. Yang Shen, On stochastic optimization methods .

Undergraduate:

1. Tiffany Blankenship, Carter Tisdale, Yang Yang, Research Experience for

Undergraduates (REU), NIMBioS, University of Tennesee, Tracking of fast movements

inside cells, Summer 2011.

2. Khoa Dinh, Senior in Statistics and Biomedical engineering, Medical statistics problems

associated with congenital heart diseases. IMA, University of Minnesota. October

2009- May 2010.

3. Kathryn Meehan, Junior in Statistics. Medical statistics problems associated with

congenital heart diseases. IMA, University of Minnesota. October 2009- May 2010.

Teaching Experience

University of Tennessee, Department of Mathematics:

Fall 2010: Calculus II, Probability Theory.

Spring 2011: Matrix Algebra, Statistics.

Fall 2011: Statistics I (Graduate level Bayesian Theory)

Spring 2012: Statistics II (Graduate level Bayesian Computations), Matrix Algebra

Fall 2012: Probability I (Graduate course)

University of North Carolina, Department of Statistics:

Instructor (with full responsibility): Spring & Summer Semesters 2005, Spring, Summer & Fall

Semesters 2007, Spring Semester 2008 (100 students). Introduction to Statistics. Department of

Statistics and Operations Research.

Teaching Assistant: Fall 2003-Fall 2004. Introduction to Statistics, Basic Statistics,

Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Methods I (SAS programming respo nsible). Department of

Statistics and Operations Research.

Computer Skills

R, SAS, Splus, Matlab, Fortran 77, Latex, MS Office

Reviewer

Journal of Theoretical Probability, Acta Applicanda Mathimaticae, IEEE Information Theory,

IEEE Signal Processing, IET Computer Vision, Wiley&Sons

Professional Service

Organizer, NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Mathematical modeling of intracellular

movements, University of Tennessee, October 24-26, 2011.

Organizer, NIMBioS REU: Tracking of fast movements inside cells, University of Tennessee,

Summer 2011.

Contact of Mathematics Department for IGSP, University of Tennessee, 2012-.

Member of Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics Program (IGSP), UTK, 2010- 2012.

Postdoctoral in Probability Search Committee, 2012-2013.

Advisory Committee (elected), Mathematics Department, May 1st, 2012-April 30th, 2014.

Graduate Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012.

Colloquium Committee, Fall 2011-Spring 2012.

Colloquium Committee Chair, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.

Examiner for FERMAT I (Fall 2010), Grader for FERMAT II (Fall 2010, 2011).

Professional Affiliations

Member, American Statistical Association

Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Invited Member, Greek Statistical Society

Languages

English, French, Greek

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