Senior Lecturer

Contact details

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	ifefthimiou@ctleuro.ac.cy

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Dr.Ifigenia Efthimiou holds a Doctorate on the domain of "Design and Analysis of Experiments" with Grade "Excellent", Master’s Degree "Statistics and Data Analysis" and a Bachelor’s Degree (BSc) of Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics. She is a Lecturer at CTL Eurocollege, Limassol Cyprus. She teaches courses of her expertise. 

She has a long-term academic experience to public and private universities (University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, American College and CDA College Neapolis University Pafos). She is a published author and has also published articles in very important International Journals such as" Statistica Sinica "and "Metrika". She is regular member of the organization "Greek Statistical Institute (ΕΣΙ)". She took participation and presentation of papers in several scientific conferences and also she presented a poster at the Department of Statistics, University of Georgia (USA).

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS           

October 2010 – March 2015: Doctoral Thesis on the domain of

"Design and Analysis of Experiments", Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece. Supervisors: Stelios D. Georgiou and Stelios Xanthopoulos, Grade: "EXCELLENT " (10/10). 

October 2008 - June 2010: Master’s Degree "Statistics and Data Analysis", Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of the University of The Aegean, Samos, Greece. 

October 2004 – February 2008: BSc Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics of the University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 

Following the completion of her Doctoral Thesis in the field of Statistics and Data Analysis (2015), specifically in the area of Design and Analysis of Experiments, Dr.Ifigenia Efthimiou employed by the Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping at the Cyprus University of Technology in the position of Special Scientist (2018-2021). In this capacity, she had the opportunity to teach Statistical Methods for the requirements of the University’s undergraduate programme and Quantitative Methods and Statistics for Management as part of the postgraduate programme. Furthermore, she was granted the position of Special Scientist at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus (2018-2019) and taught Statistical Methods for the undergraduate programme. Dr. Ifigenia Efthimiou had the opportunity to teach as Special Scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering of Cyprus University of Technology (TEΠAK) (2021-2022). She also had the opportunity to teach at the Department of Computer Science and Department of Business Administration in the position of Assistant Professor at the American College in several subjects such as Linear Algebra, Calculus I Calculus II Statistics I Statistics II, Discrete Mathematics, Management Science etc. She currently teaches at the Department of Computer Science of Neapolis University of Pafos in the position of Visitor Lecturer and at CTL EUROCOLLEGE courses of her expertise.

PUBLISHED PAPERS, ABSTRACTS AND ARTICLES

ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Published papers 

• Georgiou, S.D. and Efthimiou, I. (2012). Some classes of orthogonal Latin hypercube designs. Statist. Sinica.
• Ifigenia Efthimiou, Stelios D. Georgiou, and Min-Qian Liu. (2014).Construction of nearly orthogonal Latin hypercube designs Metrika.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1.  Efthimiou and S. Georgiou, "Latin Hypercube Designs”, in the Proceedings of the 26^th PanHellenic Conference in Statistics, May 2013, Piraeus, Athens.

CONFERENCES 

Participation and presentation of a paper in the following scientific conferences:

• Twenty-sixth Panhellenic Conference of Statistics, May 2013, Piraeus, Greece. A joint paper with Mr. S. Georgiou was presented, titled: ''Latin Hypercube Designs''.
• Twenty-seventh Panhellenic Conference of Statistics, April 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece. A joint paper with Mr. S. Georgiou was presented, titled: ''Sliced Latin Hypercube Designs''. 

Presentation of a poster in the following scientific conferences:

1.  Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference (DAE 2012), October 17-20, 2012. Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA. Presentation of the poster: "Designs for computer experiments constructed from block-circulant matrices" (with S. Georgiou and G. Stylianou).
2. Twenty-sixth Panhellenic Conference of Statistics, May 2013, Piraeus, Greece. Presentation of the following poster: Orthogonal designs and designs with small correlations suitable for computer experiments", (with S. Georgiou and G. Stylianou). 

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS 

Regular member of the following scientific organization: 

Greek Statistical Institute (ΕΣΙ)

SCHOLARSHIPS

October 2008 - June 2009: Scholarship from the Postgraduate Programme of Studies “Statistics and Actuarial - Financial Mathematics”, of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics, School of Sciences, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece. 

September 2004 - June 2006: Scholarship and award from the programme of the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (Ι.Κ.Υ) for her performance during the academic years 2004-2006.

SUPERVISION OF THESES BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Supervision of two postgraduate theses along with Dr. Stella Stylianou (Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial – Financial Mathematics, School of Sciences, University of The Aegean, Samos, Greece) as a supervisor.