Prof. Victor M. Panaretos

Chaire de Statistique Mathématique
Institut de Mathématiques
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Station 8, CH-1015 Lausanne

e-mail: [email protected]

Office: MA B1 503
Personal#: +41 21 6932597

Secretary’s#: +41 21 6937922

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Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, EPFL.

Director, Institute of Mathematics (2019–).

Past:

Director, EPFL Doctoral Programme in Mathematics (2015–2018).

Associate Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (2013–2018)

Assistant Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, EPFL (2007–2013).

Ph.D. in Statistics  University of California at Berkeley (2007)

Thesis title: “Inverse Problems, Stochastic Geometry, Structural Biology”

Research Advisor: David R. Brillinger

Awarded the “Erich L. Lehmann Prize for an Outsdanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Theoretical Statistics”

Ptychion (4 year BSc) in Statistics  Athens University of Economics and Business (2003)

• Completed the degree requirements in 3 years instead of the standard 4
  [degree officially conferred 10/2004 due to Greek law restrictions]

• Graduated as Class Valedictorian
• Erasmus visiting student at the Department of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
  during the academic year 2002/2003

Honours and Awards 

• 2019 Bernoulli Society Forum Lecturer (two plenary lectures to be delivered at EMS 2019, Palermo).

• Selected as one of the “40 extraordinary scientists under 40” invited to participate at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China (2014).
• Awarded an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant Award. Project title: “Statistics for Complex Data: Understanding Randomness, Complexity and Geometry with a View Towards Biophysics”. (Information on ERC Starting Grant Awards can be found here)
• Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee, and Chairman of the Conference, First ISI Young Statisticians Meeting (YSI), Satellite Event to the ISI 2011 World Congress.
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 2008 (the youngest ever elected member of the institute, formally established in 1885).
  
  Nominated by: Sir David Cox, David R. Brillinger, Jozef Teugels.

• Youngest faculty member to hold a chaired position in the history of EPFL, at age 24.
• Awarded the “Erich L. Lehmann Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Theoretical Statistics”, UC Berkeley.

  The award citation reads:

  “Victor Panaretos is honoured with this award for substantial contributions to both the theory of statistics and for its applications to the biological sciences. Victor Panaretos introduced the stochastic Radon transform, and the Radon diffusion process, and brought the field of shape theory to bear on the electron microscopy problem of inferring the structure of protein assemblies from two dimensional images.”

• Awarded the “Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award”, UC Berkeley, 2005 “for outstanding achievements as a teacher” [awarded to <10% of Berkeley GSI’s].
• Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, 100.000$ over 3 years, for Doctoral Studies.
  [competitively awarded on the basis of a research proposal – 1.024 awards out of 10.000 proposals submitted were given, only 3 awards in probability and/or statistics]

• Awarded an NSF VIGRE Fellowship (4 year) to pursue Doctoral Studies in Statistics at UC Berkeley.
• Class 2000 Valedictorian, Athens University of Economics and Business.

Editorial and Academic Service

Editor, Bernoulli News, May 2011-May 2015 (two terms).

Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 2018-

Associate Editor, JASA – Theory & Methods, 2017-

Associate Editor, Biometrika, 2011-

Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2011-2018

Associate Editor, The Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2010-2018

Associate Editor, Springer UNITEXT Series in Mathematics, 2016-

Served as Referee for:
Advances in Applied Probability,
Annals of Statistics,
Annals of Applied Statistics,
Bernoulli,
Biometrika,
Biostatistics,
Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods),
Journal of the American Statistical Association (Applications and Case Studies),
Journal of Multivariate Analysis,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B,
Oxford University Press,
Probability Theory and Related Fields,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
Proceedings of the Royal Society,
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics,
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences,
Wiley.

Invited Presentations in Conferences/Workshops

• “Statistics Meets Friends: From Biophysics to Inverse Problems and Back”, Gottingen (2017)
• Dutch Stochastics Meeting, Lunteren (2017)
• International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Congress, Marrakech (2017)
• Fourth International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics, La Coruna (2017)
• 47th Annual John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, Knoxville (2017)
• “Statistical Recovery of Discrete, Geometric and Invariant Structures”, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2017)
• European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics International
  Conference on Statistics and Computing, Seville, Spain (2016)

• International Meeting on Nonparametric Statistics, Avignon, France (2016)
• Conference on “Random Sets in Action”, Bern, Switzerland (2016)
• Workshop on “Statistical Analysis of Manifold-Valued Data and Beyond”, University of Nottingham, UK (2016)
• Swiss Doctoral School in Statistics and Applied Probability, Short Course on Functional Data Analysis (2016).
• Invited Talk, IMS Annual Meeting, Joint Statistics Meetings, Seattle (2016).
• Invited Talk, European Meeting of Statisticians, Amsterdam (2015).
• Invited Talk, IMS-Microsoft Workshop on “Foundations of Data Science”, Boston (2015).
• Invited Talk, TMU/LMU Workshop on Functional Data Analysis, Munich (2015).
• Invited Talk, Geometry and Nonparametrics Session, International Meeting on Nonparametric Statistics, Cadiz, Span (2014).
• Invited Talk, Statistics of Deformations Session, International Meeting on Nonparametric Statistics, Cadiz, Span (2014).
• Invited Short Course, “Functional and Complex Structure Data Analysis”, European Course in Advanced Statistics, Castro Urdiales, Spain (2013).
• Invited Discussant “Recen Developments in Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds” Session, at the 59th World Statistics Congress, International Statistical Institute, Hong Kong, China (2013).
• Invited Talk, Dependent Functional Data Session, 29th European Meeting of Statisticians, Budapest, Hungrary (2013).
• Invited Talk, Workshop on Statistical Inverse Problems, University College London (2013).
• Invited Talk, Dependent Functional Data Research Workshop, Universität Göttingen (2013).
• Invited Talk, Statistics in Functional and Hilbert Spaces Session, 5th International Conference on Statistics and Computing, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Oviedo (2012).
• Invited Talk, Workshop on Statistics of Time Warping and Phase Variations, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio (2012).
• Invited Talk, High Dimensional and Dependent Functional Data Research Workshop, University of Bristol (2012).
• Invited Talk, Functional Data Analysis Session, IMS/Bernoulli World Congress in Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Istanbul (2012).
• Invited Talk, Nonparametric Methods for Time Dynamic Object Modeling Session, International Meeting on Nonparametric Statistics, Chalkidiki, Greece (2012).
• Intited Talk, Progress on Statistical Issues in Searches, SLAC National Accelarator Laboratory, Stanford, CA (2012).
• Invited Talk, Meeting on Uncertainty Quantification, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Raleigh (2012).
• Invited Talk, Statistics in Functional and Hilbert Spaces Session, 4th International Conference on Statistics and Computing, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, London (2011).
• Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Mathematical Society Society, Zürich (2011).
• Two Invited Lectures, 56th Annual Meeting of the International Biometric Society (Brazilian Region), Maringa, Brazil (2011).
• Invited Speaker, ICORS (International Conference on Robust Statistics), Valladolid, Spain (2011).
• Invited Speaker, ‘PHYSTAT – Statistical Issues for Large Hadron Collider Physics’, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2011).
• Invited Lecture, Opening Workshop for the SAMSI Programme on “Analysis of Object Data” (2010).
• One of the Invited Plenary Lectures at the Dutch Meeting of Mathematical Statisticians and Probabilists (2009)
• One of three Invited “David G. Kendall Memorial Lectures”, 58th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland (2011).
• Invited Discussant “Model Building and Regularisation” Session at the 58th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin, Ireland (2011).
• Invited Talk, “New Frontiers in Stochastic Geometry” Workshop – Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2008).
• Invited Talk “Methods and Imaging for Porous Media Conference”, Paris (2008).
• Invited Discussant “Stochastic Modeling for Earthquakes and Tsunamis Session” 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Lison, Portugal (2007).
• One of the Invited Plenary Lecturers at the Swiss Statistics Meeting (2007).

Invited Seminars and Presentations

• Department of Statistics, LSE (2017)
• Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (2016)
• Department of Mathematics, Rurh-Universitat Bochum (2016)
• Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, IBM Research, Zürich (2015).
• Center for Statistics, University of Geneva (2015).
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis (2014).
• Department of Statistics, Stanford University (2014).
• Neyman Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley (2014).
• Biophotonics Imaging Seminar, Universität Göttingen (2014).
• Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Université de Grenoble (2014).
• Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle (2013).
• Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2013).
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley (2013).
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis (2013).
• Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano (2012).
• Department of Statistics, Rutgers University (2012).
• Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge (2012).
• Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle (2012).
• Department of Statistical Science, University College London (2011).
• Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg (2011) .
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis (2011).
• Faculty of Science, New York Univeristy Abu Dhabi (2011).
• University of Zürich and ETH Zürich Joint Statistics Seminar (2010).
• School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork (2010).
• Department of Statistics & Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2010).
• Department of Statistics, Trinity College, University of Dublin (2010).
• Centre for Statistics and its Applications, University of Lisbon (2010).
• Institute of Mathematical Stochastics, Universität Göttingen (2009).
• Institute of X-Ray Physics, Universität Göttingen (2009).
• Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen (2009).
• Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, Stanford University (2009).
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley (2009).
• Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology, University of Warwick (2009).
• Institute of Statistics, Université de Neuchâtel (2008).
• Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zürich (2008).
• Departent of Statistics, Stanford University (2008).
• Department of Statistics and Operations Reseeach, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (2007).
• Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2007).
• Department of Actuarial Science and Mathematical Statistics, Universität Bern (2007).
• Department of Statistics, Stanford University (2007).
• Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley (2007).
• Glaeser Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2007).
• Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge (2007).
• Department of Statistics, University of Chicago (2007).
• Department of Statistics, University of Washington at Seattle (2007).
• Departents of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University (2007).
• Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• Institute of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne – EPFL (2007).
• Department of Statistics, University of Oxford (2006).
• Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego (2006).
• Department of Statistics, University of Warwick (2006).
• Glaeser Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2005).
• Glaeser Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2004).