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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), a Research Fellow of the European research institute EURANDOM, and the current chair of the Dutch women in mathematics network. Her research centres on the performance of stochastic processing networks with layered architectures. She currently runs three NWO projects on the topic, focusing on energy networks, high-tech manufacturing, and stochastic interacting networks, and an additional project from the Australian Research Council 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 three journals and has refereed for about 45 international journals, conferences, and national science foundations. Her research has been funded by grants exceeding 4.5M from more than 10 science foundations, universities, societies, and organisations. She is the co-author of more than 45 refereed papers, the co-recipient of the best paper award in ICORES 2013, the Marcel Neuts student paper award in MAM8, and of the 3rd prize of the 8th conference in Actuarial Science.
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.
Dr. Vlasiou serves on the editorial boards of IISE Transactions and of Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. She is also the president of the executive board of the European Women in Mathematics – The Netherlands (EWM-NL), the Dutch association of female professional mathematicians. In addition, she is a member of the scientific advisory board in mathematics of the Lorenz Center, the Dutch international centre for scientific workshops.
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 PDEng projects. She is also a Bachelor College coach and a student 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
Eindhoven University of Technology
9 Sep 2002 → 10 Oct 2006
Award Date: 25 Sep 2006
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1 Sep 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 2018Postdoctoral Fellow , Georgia Institute of Technology
1 Aug 2007 → 31 Jul 2008Research Engineer II, Georgia Institute of Technology
1 Nov 2006 → 31 Jul 2007Fingerprint
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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
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Insensitivity of proportional fairness in critically loaded bandwidth sharing networks
Vlasiou, M., Zhang, J. & Zwart, B., 2014, s.n. 31 p. (arXiv.org; vol. 1411.4841 [math.PR])Research output: Book/Report › Report › Academic
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Corrected phase-type approximations of heavy-tailed risk models using perturbation analysis
Vatamidou, E., Adan, I. J. B. F., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 2013, Eindhoven: Eurandom. 20 p. (Report Eurandom; vol. 2013001)Research output: Book/Report › Report › Academic
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A Lévy input model with additional state-dependent services
Palmowski, Z. B. & Vlasiou, M., 2011, In: Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 121, 7, p. 1546-1564Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Complete resource pooling of a load-balancing policy for a network of battery swapping stations
Sloothaak, F., Cruise, J., Shneer, S., Vlasiou, M. & Zwart, B., 1 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Queueing Systems. XX, XResearch 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
Open AccessFile6 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Marcel Neuts Student Paper Award
Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient), 10 Jan 2014
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Third prize
Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient), 1 Jun 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
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MAM8 Marcel Neuts Best Student paper Award
Adan, Ivo J.B.F. (Recipient), Vatamidou, E. (Recipient), Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient) & Zwart, A.P. (Bert) (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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"Thank a Teacher" teaching award
Vlasiou, Maria (Recipient), 26 Mar 2008
Prize: Other › Discipline related › Professional
Activities
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Lorenz Center (External organisation)
Maria Vlasiou (Member)
4 May 2017 → May 2022Activity: Membership types › Membership of board › Scientific
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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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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Maria Vlasiou (Visiting researcher)
30 Oct 2017 → 31 Dec 2017Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution › Scientific
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Heavy-traffic approximations for a layered network with limited resources
Maria Vlasiou (Speaker)
11 Jul 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Courses
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Students gain most from maths-interests balance: Maria Vlasiou
22/02/17
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5.1 million euros made available for leading research in astronomy, computer science and mathematics
B.J. Geurts, Maria Vlasiou & Kevin A. Buchin
9/01/19
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Impacts
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Stochactic processes on interacting networks
Maria Vlasiou (Content manager)
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