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“Mathematics to me is humanity’s effort to find absolute truths and to approach reality. Stochastic processes in particular illustrate perfectly the regularity to be found even in chaos.”
Research profile
Maria Vlasiou is a Full Professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, an Associate Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and a Research Fellow of the European research institute EURANDOM. In addition, she represents the Netherlands at the European Women in Mathematics and the Committee for Women in Mathematics of the International Mathematical Union and is a board member of the Dutch women in mathematics network since 2017.
Her research centres on the performance of stochastic processing interacting networks. She currently runs three projects on the topic, focusing on energy networks, high-tech manufacturing, and on interacting networks in cells related to insulin signalling. Other interests include Lévy processes, perturbation analysis for heavy-tailed risk models, large deviations for non-monotone stochastic recursions, and proportional fairness in heavy traffic for bandwidth-sharing networks. She has supervised six PhD theses on these topics.
Prof. Vlasiou is associate editor in four journals and has refereed for about 45 international journals, conferences, and national science foundations. Her research has been funded by grants exceeding 3.7M from more than 10 science foundations, universities, societies, and organisations. She is the co-author of more than 50 refereed papers, the co-recipient of the best paper award in ICORES 2013, the Marcel Neuts student paper award in MAM8, the co-author of 3rd prize of the 8th conference in Actuarial Science, and has recently received the UPS George D. Smith prize of INFORMS on behalf of TU/e for which she was project coordinator and lead contact.
Academic background
Maria Vlasiou received her BSc (2002, Hons.) and PhD (2006) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and TU/e, respectively. In 2006, she moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she worked as a Research Engineer and as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research has been funded by grants from more than 10 science foundations and organizations.
Prof. Vlasiou serves on the editorial boards of IISE Transactions, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, OR Spectrum, and INFOR.
Affiliated with
- ATINER
- BETA
- CWI
- EURANDOM
- EWM The Netherlands
- INFOMRS
- LNMB
- Lorenz Center
Partners in (semi-)industry
- ASML
- Philips Healthcare
- VDL/ETG
Chair
Stochastic Processing Interacting Networks (University of Twente)
Stochastic resource-sharing networks (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Education and Teaching
Maria Vlasiou teaches courses in Probability, Stochastic processes, infectious-disease epidemiology, and performance modelling. She regularly supervises BSc, MSc, and PhD theses, internships, and EngD projects. She is also a graduate students' mentor.
Prof. Vlasiou has obtained her UTQ diploma in 2010 and has continued her training in education through various professional development courses. She has served in the departmental Didactics committee and UTQ committee and has obtained several grants on research in mathematics education.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology
9 Sept 2002 → 10 Oct 2006
Award Date: 25 Sept 2006
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1 Sept 1998 → 22 Jul 2002
Award Date: 22 Jul 2002
External positions
Professor, University of Twente
1 Mar 2020 → …
Scientific staff member, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
1 May 2010 → 1 Mar 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow , Georgia Institute of Technology
1 Aug 2007 → 31 Jul 2008
Research Engineer II, Georgia Institute of Technology
1 Nov 2006 → 31 Jul 2007
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Stochastic processes driven by non-convex resource allocation problems
1/03/19 → 17/05/24
Project: Research direct
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Complexity in Transport and Logistics
Vlasiou, M. & Schol, C.
28/08/17 → 30/09/22
Project: Research direct
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Asymptotic analysis of Emden-Fowler type equation with an application to power flow models
Christianen, M. H. M., Janssen, A. J. E. M., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 29 Jun 2022, In: arXiv. 2022, 33 p., 2206.14653.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
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Tail Asymptotics for the Delay in a Brownian Fork-Join Queue
Schol, D., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 9 Aug 2022, In: arXiv. 2022, 24 p., 2208.04796.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
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Large fork-join queues with nearly deterministic arrival and service times
Schol, D., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 1 May 2022, In: Mathematics of Operations Research. 47, 2, p. 1335-1364 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Extreme-value theory for large fork-join queues, with an application to high-tech supply chains
Meijer, M., Schol, D., Jaarsveld, W. V., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 19 May 2021, In: arXiv.org, e-Print Archive, Mathematics. 2021, 40 p., 2105.09189.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
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Insensitivity of proportional fairness in critically loaded bandwidth sharing networks
Vlasiou, M., Zhang, J. & Zwart, B., 2014, In: arXiv. 31 p., 1411.4841.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
Open Access1 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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2017 AMSI-ANZIAM Lecturer
Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Other › visiting scholar › Scientific
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MAM8 Marcel Neuts Best Student paper Award
Adan, Ivo J.B.F. (Recipient), Vatamidou, Eleni (Recipient), Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient) & Zwart, A.P. (Bert) (Recipient), 10 Jan 2014
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Best paper award (ICORES 2013)
Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient), 18 Feb 2013
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities
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IISE Transactions (Journal)
Maria Vlasiou (Editorial board member)
1 Feb 2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
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OR Spectrum (Journal)
Maria Vlasiou (Editorial board member)
1 Apr 2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
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Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Journal)
Maria Vlasiou (Editorial board member)
15 Jan 2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
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INFOR : Information Systems and Operational Research (Journal)
Maria Vlasiou (Editorial board member)
1 Jan 2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
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Queues on interacting networks
Maria Vlasiou (Speaker)
Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote talk › Scientific
Courses
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Students gain most from maths-interests balance: Maria Vlasiou
22/02/17
1 Media contribution
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Impacts
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Stochactic processes on interacting networks
Maria Vlasiou (Content manager)
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