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Vasiliki Koutra

Dr Vasiliki Koutra

Lecturer in Statistics

Research interests

  • Mathematics

Biography

Dr Vasiliki Koutra is a Lecturer in Statistics within the Department of Mathematics. Previously, she held roles at the University of Southampton and Rothamsted Research. She was a senior medical statistician in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, where she provided methodological and statistical expertise on numerous research projects and submitted a number of research grant applications to a range of UK Research Councils.

She has also worked in both the Applied Statistics and the Bioinformatics groups within the Computational and Systems Biology department at Rothamsted Research. She provided statistical support in the design and analysis of experiments and network analysis in an agricultural/biological science research setting.

Vasiliki has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina, and an MSc and PhD in Statistics from the University of Southampton.

Research interests

Vasiliki’s research is focused on developing efficient designs on networks and designs for multi-objective experimentation. These designs can be applicable in a wide variety of marketing, agricultural, healthcare and industrial contexts. Alongside her main research, Vasiliki collaborates with research groups from the Alan Turing Institute and also provides statistical support to medical researchers. Recent example projects include power calculations, factorial designs, and mixed effects models for topics such as cancer research, diabetes and chronic heart failure. She is a chartered statistician and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Fellow of the Greek Statistical Institute.

General areas of research interest are:

  • Statistical methodology, data science, modelling and computing
  • Optimal experimental design methodology
  • Multi-objective optimal designs
  • Structure and dynamics of networks
  • Applications of statistics in medical, agricultural, and business research

 

Further Information

Research Profile

    Research

    ARTICLE Graphs 2
    Statistics

    The group has research strengths in the design and analysis of experiments, time series and Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo methods.

    News

    New cutting-edge Master's in Statistics launches at King's College London

    The new course kicks off in September 2023 for postgraduate students with strong mathematical research backgrounds.

    statistics data

    King's scientists present cutting-edge ideas to Parliamentary and Scientific Committee

    The researchers presented to MPs at the prestigious STEM for Britain competition

    Dr Anastasiia Zaleska from the Department of Physics (left) and Dr Vasiliki Koutra, Department of Mathematics (right) at STEM for Britain

    Audio-based AI unreliable for predicting Covid-19 infection, study finds

    Researchers found that technology using Machine Learning performed no better than simply asking people to report their symptoms

    Covid-19

    King's Women in Maths

    Meet our mathematicians

    MAY-maths-whiteboard-raeng-780x450

    Dr Vasiliki Koutra shortlisted for L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award

    Vasiliki is among ten women scientists who have been shortlisted for the L'Oreal-UNESCO Rising Talents award.

    Dr Vasiliki Koutra

    Events

    17JulThumbnail_image

    DANE 2024: Design and Analysis of Networked Experiments

    A three-day workshop with academic and industry speakers to discuss methodology for, and applications of, networked experiments.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Meet our new academic staff from the Department of Mathematics

    We interview some of our researchers who started this academic year.

    mathematics

      Research

      ARTICLE Graphs 2
      Statistics

      The group has research strengths in the design and analysis of experiments, time series and Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo methods.

      News

      New cutting-edge Master's in Statistics launches at King's College London

      The new course kicks off in September 2023 for postgraduate students with strong mathematical research backgrounds.

      statistics data

      King's scientists present cutting-edge ideas to Parliamentary and Scientific Committee

      The researchers presented to MPs at the prestigious STEM for Britain competition

      Dr Anastasiia Zaleska from the Department of Physics (left) and Dr Vasiliki Koutra, Department of Mathematics (right) at STEM for Britain

      Audio-based AI unreliable for predicting Covid-19 infection, study finds

      Researchers found that technology using Machine Learning performed no better than simply asking people to report their symptoms

      Covid-19

      King's Women in Maths

      Meet our mathematicians

      MAY-maths-whiteboard-raeng-780x450

      Dr Vasiliki Koutra shortlisted for L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award

      Vasiliki is among ten women scientists who have been shortlisted for the L'Oreal-UNESCO Rising Talents award.

      Dr Vasiliki Koutra

      Events

      17JulThumbnail_image

      DANE 2024: Design and Analysis of Networked Experiments

      A three-day workshop with academic and industry speakers to discuss methodology for, and applications of, networked experiments.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Meet our new academic staff from the Department of Mathematics

      We interview some of our researchers who started this academic year.

      mathematics