Athanasios Kottas
Professor, Department of Statistics
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Office: 523 Engineering 2 Building
Phone: 831-459-5536; E-mail: thanos@soe.ucsc.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Statistics (2000),
Department of Statistics ,
University of Connecticut.
M.Sc. in Statistics and Operations Research (1996),
Department of Mathematics,
University of Ioannina , Greece.
B.Sc. in Mathematics (1994), Department of Mathematics,
University of Ioannina, Greece.
Employment
July 2018 -- present: Professor, Department of Statistics, UCSC.
July 2002 -- June 2018: Assistant Professor (2002--2008), Associate Professor
(2008--2012), Professor (2012--2018),
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics, UCSC.
August 2000 -- June 2002: Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute
of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University.
Research interests:
Bayesian nonparametrics; Mixture models; Modeling and inference for point processes;
Nonparametric regression; Survival analysis.
Applications in biometrics, ecology and the environmental sciences.
Publications and work in progress
Students
Sample of conference/seminar talks
Editorial Service
Editor for
Bayesian Analysis (since December 2018)
Associate Editor for Bayesian Analysis
(April 2008 -- December 2018), and for
Sankhya Series B (January 2016 -- December 2018)
Action Editor for the
Journal of Machine Learning Research
(September 2011 -- August 2013)
Courses on Bayesian nonparametrics
Tutorial on "Nonparametric Bayesian density regression: modeling
methods and applications",
Bayesian Nonparametrics Networking
Workshop 2023, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, December
4, 2023.
Tutorial notes
Short course on "Applied Bayesian Nonparametric
Mixture Modeling", ISBA 2021 World Meeting, Virtual
Conference, June 26, 2021.
Course notes and
References
UCSC course ``Bayesian Nonparametric Methods"
(offered 10 times, starting in Spring 2004).
thanos@soe.ucsc.edu
Last updated December 16, 2023