Victor Panaretos

Greek mathematical statistician

Victor Panaretos

Born	Victor Michael Panaretos 1982 (age 41–42)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Thesis	Inverse Problems, Stochastic Geometry, Structural Biology (2007)
Doctoral advisor	David R. Brillinger^[1]

Website	smat-files.epfl.ch/victor/

Victor Michael Panaretos (born 1982) is a Greek mathematical statistician. He is currently Professor and Director at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he holds the chair of Mathematical Statistics.

Panaretos works at the interface of nonparametric statistics, random processes, and stochastic geometry. He is known for contributions to the functional data analysis of random functions, operators, and measures.^[2] He has published widely in statistical theory and methods as well as in applied probability, and is the author of two books.^[3]^[4]

Education

Panaretos received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, advised by David R. Brillinger.^[1]^[5] His doctoral thesis was awarded the Erich Lehmann award.^[6]

Career and research

After graduation Panaretos took up a faculty position at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), becoming the youngest person ever to be appointed to a chair at the institution.^[7] He is an elected member^[8] of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow^[9] of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award in 2010,^[10] and the 2019 Bernoulli Society Forum Lecturer.^[11]

An active member of the Bernoulli Society and its parent organization, the International Statistical Institute, Panaretos has served the probability and statistics community from several posts, notably as the editor of Bernoulli News,^[12] a member of the ISI Council,^[13] and as President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society.^[14]

Panaretos has served on the editorial boards of the Annals of Statistics, the Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrika, the Electronic Journal of Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

References

^ ^a ^b Victor Panaretos at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "Statistical inference for random functions and measures". ERC: European Research Council. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ Panaretos, Victor M. (2016). Statistics for Mathematicians: A Rigorous First Course. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. ISBN 978-3-319-28339-5.
^ Panaretos, Victor M.; Zemel, Yoav (2020). An Invitation to Statistics in Wasserstein Space. SpringerBriefs in Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-38437-1.
^ Panaretos, Victor M. (2011). "A Conversation with David R. Brillinger". Statistical Science. 26 (3): 440–469. arXiv:1201.2047. doi:10.1214/10-STS324. S2CID 62563408.
^ "The Erich Lehmann Fund in Statistics | Department of Statistics". statistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "Victor M. Panaretos". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "ISI Elected Members - ISI". isi-web.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Congratulations to the 2019 IMS Fellows!". Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ Rossi, Lara (2011-12-01). "Excellence doesn't depend on age!". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Papageorgiou, Nik (2018-03-26). "Victor Panaretos to deliver 2019 Bernoulli Society Forum Lectures". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Bernoulli News". bernoulli-society.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "Council - ISI". isi-web.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
^ "New President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society - ISI". isi-web.org. Retrieved 2021-02-26.