DIMITRIS N. POLITIS
Professor of Mathematics
and Adjunct Professor of Economics

Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, USA

Office: APM 5747
Tel.: (858) 534-5861 personal; (858) 534-3590 dept.
FAX: (858) 534-5273
Email: dpolitis"AT"ucsd.edu

Birth Date: Sept. 18, 1960
Birth Place: Athens, Greece
Marital Status: Married; one daughter and one son
Citizenship: U.S./Greek

Education

1990 Stanford University, Ph.D. in Statistics.
1990 Stanford University, M.S. in Statistics.
1989 Stanford University, M.S. in Mathematics.
1985 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering.
1984 University of Patras, B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Positions

2001--- Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at San Diego.
1997-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego.
1999 (Fall) Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business.
1995-1997 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus.
1995-1996 Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University (on leave).
1990-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University.

Editorial Work

• Editor of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2008--present.
  
• Associate Editor of the IMS Collections Series, 2008--present.
  
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2006--present.
  
• (Associate) Editor of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2005--present.
  
• (Associate) Editor of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2005--2008.
  
• Guest Editor (with M. Akritas) of two special issues of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics devoted to the 2002 International Conference on Recent Trends and Directions in Nonparametric Statistics: J. Nonparametric Statist. , Vol. 16, No. 1-2, 2004, and Vol. 16, No. 3-4, 2004.
  
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2000--2006.
  
• Co-Editor of Sankhya, the Indian Journal of Statistics, 1999--2002.
  

Professional Activities

• Co-organizer (with J. Franke and T. Subba Rao) of the Workshop on Bootstrap and Time Series, June 5-6th, 2008, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
  
• Organizer of the session ``Resampling Time Series'' at the International Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis, June 8-11, 2008, Protaras, Cyprus.
  
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Forecasting (F2) section of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ESCMSE).
  
• Co-organizer of session "Time Series and Applied Probability" at the 7th Hellenic-European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications (HERCMA'05), Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, September 28-30, 2005.
  
• Co-organizer (with R. Chen, M. LaRocca and Q. Yao) of the track on ``Computer-intensive methods for dependent data" of the Third world conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus, 28-31 October, 2005.
  
• Co-organizer (with M. Akritas, Penn State U.) of the "2002 International Conference on Recent Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics", Crete, Greece, July 15-19, 2002; see the conference website for more details.
  
• Member of the international program committee for the symposium on "Advanced Computing in the Financial Market" (ACFM) that will take place in conjunction with the Second International ICSC Congress on Computational Intelligence; Methods and Applications (CIMA 2001), University of Wales in Bangor, U.K., June 19-22, 2001.
  
• Co-organizer (with R. Papademetriou, Univ. of Portsmouth) of session "Computational Methods in Financial Engineering" at the 16th IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) World Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21-25, 2000.
  
• Co-organizer and Chair of session "ARCH Models and Time Series" at the 4th Hellenic-European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications (HERCMA'98), Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, September 26-28, 1998.
  
• Organizer and Chair of the minisymposium "Computer Intensive Methods in Statistics" at the 3rd Hellenic-European Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (HERMIS'96), Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, September 26-28, 1996.
  
• Chair of the Special Invited Session on Spatial Statistics organized by the IMS New Researchers Committee in the 56th IMS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, 8-12 August 1993).
  
• Co-organizer (with Deborah Nolan of U.C. Berkeley) of the First North American New Researchers Meeting, 4-7 August 1993, Berkeley, California. The North American New Researchers Meetings have since become a tradition taking place every other summer.
  
• Chair of the `Hot Topics' Session organized by the IMS New Researchers Committee in the 55th IMS Annual Meeting (Boston, 9-13 August 1992).
  
• Member of the New Researchers Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1990-1993.
  
• Organizer of a Special Seminar (with six invited speakers) in memoriam of Andrei N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987); Department of Statistics, Stanford University, November 25, 1987.
  
• Proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation (since 1992), for the National Security Agency in 1995, 1999 and 2000, and for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2000 and 2001.
  
• Textbook reviewer for Springer Verlag, Academic Press, and Wadsworth Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
  
• Reviewer for the volume Time Series Prediction: Forecasting the Future and Understanding the Past, A. Weigend and N. Gershenfeld (Eds.), Addison-Wesley, 1994.
  
• Reviewer for the volume Asymptotics, Nonparametrics, and Time Series, Subir Ghosh (Ed.), Marcel Dekker Inc., 1998.
  
• Reviewer for the volume Festschrift for George Roussas, Madan Puri (Ed.), 2000.
  
• Referee for the journals: Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Bernoulli, Statistica Sinica, Sankhya (Ser. A), Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Computational Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Technometrics, Journal of Statistical Computing and Simulation, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Mathematical Biosciences, Management Science, Operations Research, Stochastic models, Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), Statistical Papers, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Statistics, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, Political Analysis, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Probability Theory and Related Fields, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Professional Associations

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow), American Statistical Association, The Econometric Society, Technical Chamber of Greece.

Grants and Awards

2008 Principal investigator, NSF Grant MSPF-08IC-016, "Workshop on Bootstrap for Time Series", Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 5-6, 2008.
2007 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-07-06732, `Computer-intensive methods for nonparametric time series analysis'.
2005 Honorary Fellow of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering and its Financial Forecasting (F2) Section.
2004 Principal investigator, NSF Grant SES-04-18136, funded jointly by the Economics and Statistics Divisions of NSF, `Topics on bootstrap methods for time series'.
2004 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS): ``Prof. Politis received the award for innovative methodology in the analysis of time series and models of spatial dependence, as well as groundbreaking theory in nonparametric statistics".
2002 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-02-06912, `International Conference on Recent Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics'.
2001 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-01-04059, `Computer-intensive methods for nonparametric time series analysis'.
1999 Recipient, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Reviewer award.
1997 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-97-03964, `Computer-intensive methods for the statistical analysis of dependent data'.
1996 Co-principal investigator, PENED award from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Government, `New approaches in ARCH modelling and stochastic volatility for multivariate time series'.
1994 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-94-04329, `Computer-intensive methods for the statistical analysis of time series and random fields'.
1993 Principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-93-19944, `First North American New Researchers Meeting, August 4-7, 1993, Berkeley'.
1993 Principal investigator, NSA Grant 93C-188, `First North American New Researchers Meeting, August 4-7, 1993, Berkeley'.
1991 Co-principal investigator, NSF Grant DMS-91-05850, `Mathematical Sciences Computing Research Environments'.
1984 Recipient, `Scholastic Achievement Award', Technical Chamber of Greece.
1984 Recipient, Bodosakis Foundation Scholarship, Athens, Greece.

Publications

Author of over 100 technical papers (see list) and of the books:
SUBSAMPLING, D.N. Politis, J.P. Romano, M. Wolf, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999.
RECENT ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS, M.G. Akritas and D.N. Politis (Eds.), Elsevier (North Holland), 2003.

Seminar Talks

Invited speaker for many seminar talks worldwide (see partial list at: www.math.ucsd.edu/~politis/DPtalks.html).

Biographical Listings

Who's Who in the World, 13th ed., Who's Who in America, 49th ed., (Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in the Midwest), Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century, Men of Achievement.

Expertise

Time Series and Random Fields, Resampling and Subsampling for Dependent Observations, Spatial Statistics and Point Processes, Nonparametric Spectral and Probability Density Estimation, Information Theory and Signal Processing, Econometric Analysis of Financial Time Series.

Consulting

Consulting activities for the most part have focused on the statistical analysis and prediction of financial/econometric time series. Past projects also include problems from engineering, biophysics, marketing, litigation, etc.

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