Nicholas Evangelopoulos
Associate Professor
Phone: 940.565.3056
Office: BLB 365D
Email: evangeln@unt.edu
Biography
Nick Evangelopoulos (Ph.D., Washington State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences at the University of North Texas. Dr. Evangelopoulos' current research interests include Change-Point Analysis, Probabilistic Models in Hydraulic Engineering, Applied Statistics, and Text Mining. His research focuses on development and evolution of statistical methodology and on interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Evangelopoulos has published a number of research articles that appear in prominent journals and national or international conference proceedings. His articles appear in Environmetrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. In 2005, Dr. Evangelopoulos was awarded a Junior Faculty summer Research Fellowship by the University of North Texas, and an Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Student/Faculty Research Grant by the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge. Dr. Evangelopoulos has taught a number of courses in Business Statistics, Management Science, Advanced Java and Object-Oriented Programming, and Data Mining. In the Fall of 2005 he will be also teaching a course in Applied Regression Analysis for doctoral students. He is currently a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and a Fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge. Dr. Evangelopoulos was born in Greece. Before coming to the University of North Texas, he participated in a Defense Advanced Research (DARPA) project related to Artificial Intelligence at the University of Kansas and worked as a faculty for two years at California State University, Sacramento.
