DINOPOULOU VAYA - CURRICULUM VITAE

 

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Department of Production Engineering and Management
Technical University of Crete
Chania GR-73100
Tel. (+30)-28210-37307
E-mail dinop @ dssl.tuc.gr
K. Mitsotaki 25
Chania GR-73100
Tel. (+30)-28210-53482
 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birthday: May 25,1969 (Kozani, Greece), single

 

EDUCATION

1994 – 1999

Ph.D. degree with the thesis “Asymptotically optimal maintenance of systems and optimal control of multiserver queues”, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

1992 – 1994

M.Sc. degree, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

1987 – 1992

Department of Production Engineering and Management, Diploma thesis “Optimal maintenance of K-out-of-N systems with components Ki-out-of-Ni subsystems”.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Operation Research, Dynamic Programming, Reliability Systems, Queuing theory, Optimization and automatic control theories and their application to traffic and transportation systems

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

bulletTechnical University of Crete:
bulletSystem administrator in Automatic Control Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering (’92–’93)
bulletTutorial on Dynamic Programming, Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Production Engineering and Management (’93–’96)
bulletLectures on (’99-’00):
Quality Control, Dept. of Production Engineering and Management
Computer Programming (Fortran, C), Department of Sciences
Statistics, Department of Sciences
bulletTechnological Educational Institute of Crete (Chania), Department of Electronics:
bulletLectures on (’93–’94, ’95–’00)
Computer Programming ? (Pascal)
Computer Programming ?? (C)
Mathematics ??
Matlab (Mathematics for Engineers)
bulletEducational Seminar for High School Teachers on “Computer Applications in the High School Environment and Secondary Education” (’95–’96)
bulletInstitute of Professional Education (Chania):
bulletLectures on (’94-’97)
Computer Programming (Pascal)
Program design
Algorithms and data structures
Statistics
Programming language C

 

RESEARCH AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES

bulletMarch 1997 – August 1997: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Mathematics.
bulletSeptember 1996 – September 1998: National R&D Programme PENED of the Greek Ministry for Research and Technology, Area: System Reliability and Related Problems.
bulletFebruary 1997 – February 1998: Research Project COMFORTABLE of the European Commission. Area: Maritime Traffic.
bulletOctober 1997 – May 1998: Research Project D’ ACCORD of the European Commission. Area: Advanced Transport Telematics.
bulletFebruary 1999 – February 2000: National R&D Programme CHANIASYN of the Greek Ministry for Research and Technology, Area: Urban traffic control.

 

PUBLICATIONS

bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C. “On the dynamic control of reliability systems and queueing networks when the optimal policy depends on the system structure only” Proc. 6th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute. Thessaloniki, Greece, June 4-6, 1993 pp. 40-47.
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Katehakis M., Melolidakis C. “Asymptotically Optimal Maintenance of Non-identical K-out-of-N Systems connected in Parallel”. Proc. 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control & Automation. Chania, Crete June 10-13, 1996, pp. 552-557.
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C. “Asymptotically optimal maintenance of non-identical K-out-of-N systems connected in series”. Proc. 11th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute. Chania, Crete, June 5-7 1998, pp 67-76.
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C. “Asymptotically optimal component assembly plans in repairable systems connected in series or in parallel”. Proc. 12th Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute. Spetses, Greece, April 15-18 1999.
bulletDinopoulou V. D, Melolidakis C. “Asymptotically optimal control of parallel systems and multiserver queues”. 10th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference July 1999.
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C.“On the optimal control of parallel systems and queues” (“accepted” book of AMS, editors: Le Cam , T. Bruss).
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C.“Discounted asymptotically optimal control of parallel systems and queues”. (submitted)
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C. “Assymptotically optimal component assembly plans in repairable systems and server allocation in parallel multiserver queues”. (submitted)
bulletDinopoulou V. D., Melolidakis C. “Optimal repair policies in two-tier reliability systems: the series connection case”. (submitted)

 

COURSE NOTES

bulletProgram design
bulletAlgorithms and data structures
bulletStatistics
bulletProgramming language Pascal
bulletProgramming language C

 

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

bulletOperating Systems: Dos, Novell, Unix.
bulletWindows, Windows95-98.
bulletProgramming languages: Fortran, Pascal, C, C++ (object oriented programming), Simscript (simulation), LISP (expert systems), SQL.
bulletSoftware packages: IMSL, dBase IV, Access, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Maple V, Matlab, Mathematica, Systat, SPSS, AutoCAD.
bulletWord processors: Word, EXP, LaTex, Tex.

 

SCHOLARSHIP

bullet1989-1990 and 1990-1991: Scholarships from Greek National Institute of Scholarship.
bullet1993 – 1999: Scholarship from Technical University of Crete for graduate studies.

 

LANGUAGE

English.