Current Research Interests
- Statistical methods for infrared spectroscopic clinical diagnostics (during Ph.D.)
My research focuses on the development of probabilistic models that decribe the heterogenenaity of different stages between diseased and healthy tissues of Esofageal cancer. Esofageal cancer which is th 6th biggest killer and the 8th most common cancer in the world. The aim of the project is to discriminate healthy and cancer biopsies and then to disciminate the middle setates of cancer such that to diagnose the cancer in real time using the Infrared Spectroscopy.
I am working in the case where \(n\ll p\) (\(n\): number of samples, \(p\): number of variables). Including all the predictors in the model is inefficient, as most of them do not inform the response variable. The goal of this project is to select a subset of measurements with \(q\) variables (\(q\ll p\)), such that to achieve accurate predictions. Thus, my research focuses on Bayesian variable selection.
My Ph.D.'s supervisors are Prof. Tom Fearn and Dr. Ioanna Manolopoulou from the Department of Statistical Science, UCL.
In this mutidisciplinary project, I collaborate with Prof. Peter Rich and Dr. Liberty Foreman from the Department of Structure and Molecular Biology, UCL, and also with Prof. Laurence Lovat from the Department of gastroenterology, University College Hospital (UCLH).
Previous Research Interests
- Estimate of Pi with Monte Carlo Method
- Monte Carlo simulation of semi-markov Process
- Find patterns in DNA sequence
- Detection of period on structured sampling
- Time series analysis and perdiction via SPSS and MATLAB
- Simulation of non-homogeneous Poisson Process
- Non-homogeneous semi-markov system
- Study and analysis of selected Populations Models
- Statistical analysis of poll on immigration in Thessaloniki
- Statistical analysis of fractal point processes: application to Seismology (M.Sc. thesis)