Professor Spiridon Penev

Professor Spiridon Penev

Professor
Science
School of Mathematics & Statistics
After finishing my PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), I was working for 10 years at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. I was promoted to Associate Professor there in 1991.
My association with UNSW started in 1992. I started as a lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999, to Associate Professor in 2011, and to Professor in 2019.
I am teaching courses in Statistical Inference, Multivariate Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analys...
Phone
9385 7023
E-mail
S.Penev@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 The Red Centre Room 1038

Recent grants:

  • Australian Research Council (ARC) discovery project "Frontiers of inference about risk"-Lead Chief Investigator (CI) (2016-2018) 
  • Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage project "Remote sensing to improve structural efficiency of high-speed catamarans"- Chief Investigator (2018-2022)
  •  Collaborative research grant with Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) Statistical Analysis of water quality data- Chief Investigator
  • Spectral methods in Machine Learning- Faculty research grant (2020)
  • Complex dependence modelling to unravel relationships in Big Data- Faculty research grant (2019)
  • Demonstration models of portfolio and personal risk optimization -AMSI industry related project (2014)
  • Robust inference about risk-Faculty research grant (2014)