Carson College Directory

Biographical Sketch NAME: Dr. Stergios B. Fotopoulos MAILING ADDRESS: Department of Finance and Management Science Carson College of Business Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4726 Tel.: (509) 335-1728, FAX: (509) 335-7736 E-mail: fotopo@wsu.edu PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION Ph.D., Probability & Statistics, University of Liverpool, England, l981. Dissertation title: The Transient Behavior of a Two-Dimensional Stochastic Process. M.Sc., Probability & Statistics, University of Liverpool, England, 1978. Dissertation title: Probabilistic Inequalities in Queuing Theory. B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1975, Major: General Mathematics. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor: Washington State University, 1998-present Professor: University of Ioannina, GREECE, 2008 (sabbatical) Professor: University of Patras, GREECE, 1999 (sabbatical) Associate Professor: Washington State University, 1991-1998 Assistant Professor: Washington State University, 1985-1991 Associate Professor: The University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992 (sabbatical) Visiting Assistant Professor: Simon Fraser University, BC CANADA, 1983 Research Officer: Birkbeck College, University of London, 1981-1983 EDITOR Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Wiley InterScience [2000-2006] ASSOCIATE EDITOR International Journal of Statistics & Systems (IJSS) [2006-2009] Technometrics, book section [2005-present] Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Wiley InterScience [2006-present] FELLOW The 2003 A.D. Welliver Fellowship, Boeing INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Elected Member, 2015 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Statistical Association; The Institute of Mathematical Statistics HONORS Dean’s Excellence Fellow, 2011, College of Business Dean’s Excellence Fellow, 2010, College of Business Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 2009, College of Business Dean’s Excellence Fellow, 2009, College of Business Outstanding Faculty Service Award, 2008, College of Business Dean’s Excellence Fellow, 2008, College of Business Teaching Innovative Award, 2006, College of Business Outstanding Faculty Service Award, 2005, College of Business Dean’s Excellence Fellow, 2005, College of Business The 2003 A.D. Welliver Fellowship, Boeing Outstanding Faculty, Scholarship/Research Award, 2000, College of Business Outstanding MBA Professor of the Year,1997, College of Business State Award of Service Recognition, 1996, Greece PUBLICATIONS Khapalova, E.A., Jandhyala, V.K., Fotopoulos, S.B. (2018). Alaskan temperature changes over time. Frontier Environmental Science, in print S.B. Fotopoulos (2017). Symmetric Gaussian mixture distributions with GGC scales. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 160, 185-194. S.B. Fotopoulos, V.K. Jandhyala, and J. Wang (2015). On the joint distribution of the supremum functional and its last occurrence for subordinated linear Brownian motion. Statist. Prob. Letters, 106, 149-156. S.B. Fotopoulos, V.K. Jandhyala and Y. Luo (2015). Subordinated Brownian motion: last time the process reaches its supremum. Sankhya A., 77, 46-64. V.K. Jandhyala, P. Liu, S.B. Fotopoulos, and I.B. MacNeill (2014). Change-Point Analysis of Polar Zone Radiosonde Temperature Data. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53, 694-714. S.B. Fotopoulos, V.K. Jandhyala and E. Khapalova (2010). Exact Asymptotic distribution of change-point mle for change in the mean of Gaussian sequences. The Annals of Applied Probability, 4, 1081-1104. OTHER PUBLICATIONS V.K. Jandhyala, S.B. Fotopoulos, I.B. MacNeill and P. Liu, (2013). Inference for single and multiple change-points in time series, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 34, 423-446. V.K. Jandhyala, and S.B. Fotopoulos (2013). Change-point analysis of annual mean precipitation for northern, tropical and southern latitudes of the globe in the past century. Journal of Environmental Statistics, 4 (1). Fotopoulos, S.B., Jandhyala, V.K. And Li, T. (2009). Asymptotic study of the change-point mle in multivariate Gaussian families under contiguous alternatives. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1190-1202. Fotopoulos, S.B. (2009). The geometric convergence rate of the classical change-point estimate. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 131-137. Jandhyala, V.K. and Fotopoulos, S.B. (1999). Capturing the distributional behavior of the maximum likelihood estimate of a change-point. Biometrika, 89, 129-140. PH.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED (Chair of their committee) Wang, Y-J (2016); Yuxing Luo (2014); Tan, Li (2010); Khapalova, Elena (2009); Eman Lofty Elseeawy (2006); Chen, K.H. (2002); Evaggelopoulos, N., (1999); He, L. (1997); H. Kim (1994); Srivastava, B. (1992). I have also been a committee member for over 17 Ph.D. the last 10 years. CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS Silu, S. Kazemi, A. Paparas, V. Pavlopoulos, (Chair, Department of Finance and Management Science) COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS D.Y. Downham, V. K. Jandhyala, E. Khapalova, L. Tan, D. M. Hawkins, C. Munson, S. Ahn, L. He, N. Evangelopoulos, H.M. Kim. FUNDED PROPOSALS & GRANTS National Science Foundation Grant: DMS-0806133 06/01/2008-05/31/2011, $149,966.00 Travel Grant, Boeing, International Business Program, Washington State University, 2002. Research Grant, College of Business and Economics, Washington State University, 1995-1998. Research Grants ($5000-$10000 per year), College of Business and Economics, Washington State University, 2011-2016.

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