Departments Distinctions

IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS OF THE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT

• International distinction for the Athens University of Economics and Business | Professor D. Karlis from the Department of Statistics included in Stanford’s 2025 list

• Lara Nichetti - AUEB's First Double Degree Graduate!

• M.Sc. Students of AUEB-Stats Win Datathon and Data Skills Day, by Nestlé

• Professor Karlis Participation in the 'Sport Business Forum 2024' 

•  AUEB-Stats Professor Dimitris Karlis Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford Univesity

•  Two Outstanding Teaching Performance Awards for Ioannis Vrontos

• Congratulations to our distinguished AUEB-Stats awardees, Konstantinos Bourazas and Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, whoreceived The Martin A. Brumbaugh Award at the 2024 World Conference on Quality and Improvement

• Testimonial by Andre Ehrlich, our first ever American M.Sc. student, about the M.Sc. in Statistics

• Congratulations to our own researcher, Athanasia Kalogirou!

• Participation of Anna Nalpantidi and Athanasia Kalogirou from the Department of Statistics in the 25th Annual Econometric Game

• Konstantinos Bourazas, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, and Frédéric Sobas win the 2024 Brumbaugh Award

• Our very own Aristofanis Rontogiannis has been accepted into Brown University for a PhD in Biostatistics!

• Academic Excellence Awards – Professor P. Papastamoulis from the Department of Statistics Awarded

• Lara Nichetti is AUEB’s very first Double Degree Student! Lara is now finishing her Double M.Sc. Degree in Statistics & Finance, comprising two Degrees: a Master of Science in Statistics, from Athens University of Economics and Business and a Master of Science in Finance, from Università di Pavia.

• Maria Skoularidou, PhD, our M.Sc. in Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business Graduate Student, wins the 2023 Blackwell–Rosenbluth Award in Bayesian Statistics! (2023)

• Professor Dimitris Karlis among the 12 scientists of the Athens University of Economics and Business featured in Stanford's list of the world's top 2% scientists in their fields.(2023)

• Department of Statistics PhD candidate, Kyriakos Georgiou, in Forbes' '30 Under 30' list (2022)

• Distinction for D. Karlis: Three Teaching Awards in recent years for the M.Sc. in Business Analytics (2022)

• Satisfaction rate of Department of Statistics graduates is at 87% (2022)

• Academic Reputation QS2022: #34 Employer Reputation in EUROPE for AUEB Stats (2022)

• QS University Rankings by subject 2022- Διάκριση για το Τμήμα Στατιστικής του ΟΠΑ (2022)

• Outstanding Teaching Performance Award to Associate Professor Ioannis Vrontos (2022)

• Global recognition for 15 scientists from the Athens University of Economics and Business – Includes 2 faculty members from the Department of Statistics, Mr. Karlis and Mr. Tzoufras (2021)

•  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researcher Mr. Bouranis (2021)

• Professor Dimitris Karlis among the top scientists worldwide for 2019 (2021)

• Professor Dimitris Karlis was awarded by the Catalan Society of Economics (2019)

• Awarding of K. Kalogeropoulos, a graduate of the PhD program of the Department of Statistics, with the Savage Award for the best doctoral dissertation of 2007 (2008)

• Βράβευση του επίκουρου καθηγητή Νικόλαου Δεμίρη με το Λευκοπούλειο βραβείο Awarding of Assistant Professor Nikolaos Demiris with the Lefkopouleio Award (2005)

• Awarding of Professor Ioannis Ntzoufras with the Lefkopouleio Award (2001)