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Research Interests

Aleka Kapatou has done research on quality control and process control (mainly multivariate nonparametric control charts), and on design of experiments with applications to clinical trials. Her current research interests include studies in education and risk analysis, especially as applied to food safety. 听

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Professional Presentations

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Session Discussant, Bernard Harris Memorial Symposium 鈥淩isk in the 21st Century鈥�, Section on Risk Analysis, ASA, Institute of Advanced Analytics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, will be published in proceedings (May 10-11, 2018).

Invited panelist: 鈥淗er Campus American: Women in STEM Panel鈥�. Invited to participate as a panelist in a presentation and discussion about including women and women's experiences in the STEM fields (Fall 2017).

Presented a paper titled 鈥淚mproving Statistical Literacy Through Supplemental Instruction鈥� in ICOTS9, the International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Flagstaff, AZ (July 2014).

鈥淚mproving Risk Literacy through Supplemental Instruction,鈥� presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, Canada (August 2013).

鈥淒esign of Cost-effective Experiments鈥� presented in the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Section on Risk Analysis, held in Miami, Florida (August 2011).

鈥淒esign of Cost-effective Experiments鈥� presented in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (June 2011).

Model Lecture on 鈥淚ntroduction to Confidence Intervals鈥� presented in the Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (March 2011).

Gave a seminar in the Center for Vaccine Development, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (November 2007).

Presented a paper on 鈥淒esign of Cost-effective Experiments鈥� in the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS): Cluster of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability, held in Atlanta, Georgia (October 2003).

Gave a talk in the Statistical Engineering Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland (October 2002).

Gave a seminar in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance, and Epidemiology of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia (September 2002).

Presented a paper on 鈥淢ultivariate Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Charts based on the Sign and Signed-Rank Statistics鈥� in the International Conference on Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics held in Crete, Greece (July 2002).

Presented a seminar on 鈥淣onparametric MEWMA control charts using small samples鈥� in the Seminar Series of the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 2000).

Presented a seminar on 鈥淢ultivariate nonparametric control charts using small samples鈥� in the Seminar Series of the Department of Statistics at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (April 2000).

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Elected member of the Board of Directors, Tanterra Home Owners Association (HOA) which represents 390 households, Brookeville, Maryland (November 9, 2011-present).

Appointed representative of the Tanterra Home Owners Association (HOA) at the Greater Olney Civic Association (GOCA), Maryland (December 8, 2010-present).

Nominated for a Trachtenberg Prize and a Bender Teaching Award at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (2004).

Runner-up Outstanding Presentation Award given by the ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) for a talk on 鈥淩obustness of Multivariate EWMA Control Charts when the Covariance听 Matrix is estimated using Small Samples鈥� presented in the Joint Statistical听 Meetings held in New York, New York (August 2002).

Served as a member of the Judiciary Panel, Graduate Honor System, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia (1993-1995).

Elected president of the Hellenic Association at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia (1994-1995).

Elected president of the International Club at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (1987-1988).

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