Michael Akritas

Michael G. Akritas (born 1950) is a Greek American statistician and professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University.
His research has focused on nonparametric statistics, factorial designs, censored data, high-dimensional data modeling, astrostatistics, and social statistics.
Akritas was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2001, and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2001.
Education.
Akritas received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens in 1972, an M.Sc. in Operations Research from the University of Southampton, studied at the University of Patras under George G. Roussas, and in 1978 he received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Richard A. Johnson.
Career.
Akritas taught at MIT from 1978–1979, and again from 1980-1981 after serving in the Greek military. He then moved to the University of Rochester, and in 1985 he joined the Department of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State. He held a position at National Technical University of Athens, and visiting positions at Texas A&M University, University of Pennsylvania, Australian National University, University of Goettingen, and University of Cyprus. He co-founded, and served as Director of, the Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy; he also co-founded, and served as Treasurer of, the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics. He has published 104 articles which have been cited over 4700 times.