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Professor Nikolai Leonenko

Overview

Professor Nikolai Leonenko Position: Professor Email: LeonenkoN@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75521
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74199
Extension: 75521
Location: M/2.35

Research Interests

My research interests includes statistical analysis of stochastic processes and random fields; limit theorems for functionals of random fields under weak and strong dependence; limit distributions of the rescaled solutions of linear and non-linear partial differential equations with random initial conditions; fractional differential equations and PDE with random data; statistical inference with higher-order information; finance and stochastics; ruin problem for jump-diffusions for insurance models; multifractality and miltifractal moment-scaling of geometric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by Levy noise and stationary diffusions; statistical estimation of Shannon and Renyi information and statistical differences.

Research Group

Statistics

 

Teaching

MA3503 Stochastic Processes for Finance

MA0367 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Administrative Duties

School Library Representative

Member of School Statistics/OR Subject Panel

Member of Editorial Board of the following journals:

International Journal of Stochastic Analysis (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA),
ISSN 1048-9533

Random Operators and Stochastic Equations (publ. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, New York), ISSN 0926-6364

Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (publ. TBiMC (Ukraine) and AMS (USA)), ISSN 1547-7363

Mathematical Communications (publ. by CMS, Croatia)

International Journal of Differential Equations (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA), I am a one of Guest Editors of Special Issue of International Journal of Differential Equations on Fractional Differential Equations (2009-2010).

Major honours and distinctions

N. M. Krylov medal of Academy of Science of Ukraine (1993), the highest annual award for mathematicians in Ukraine

Soros Professor (1997)

I am a member of the American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society and Kiev Mathematical Society

Invited Seminars since 2000

Queensland University of Technology, Australia (August 2010)

University of Nancy, France (July 2010)

University of Granada, Spain (May 2010)

Michigan State University, USA (March 2010).

Wichita University, USA (April 2010).

Michigan State University, USA (2009),

University of Pau, France (2008),

Boston University, Boston, USA (2008)

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2008)

Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland (2008)

Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (2007)

Umea University, Umea, Sweden (2007)

University of Melbourne, Australia (2007)

University of Granada, Spain (2007)

Pau University, France (2006)

University of Cambridge, UK (2006)

University of Granada, Spain (2006)

University of Barselona, Spain (2005)

University of Sydney, Australia (2004)

University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2004)

University of Cergy Pontoise (Paris, Malakoff, France (2004)

University of Trento, Italy (2004)

University of Nice, Antipolis, France (2003)

UMIST (Manchester) (2003)

University of Granada, Spain (2003)

University of Liverpool (2003)

London School of Economics (2002)

Nottingham Trend University (2002)

Glasgow University (2002)

Bristol University (2001)

University of Leeds (2001)

University of Swansea (2000)

Visiting Professorships since 2001

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-September, 2001)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (April, 2002)

University of Roma “La Sapeinza”, Italy ( July 2002)

School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-September, 2002)

University of Granada, Spain (December 2002)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (April, 2003)

University of Granada, Spain (June 2003)

University of Trento, Italy (July 2003)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (September 2003)

University of Trento, Italy (March, 2004 )

University Paris V, Malakhov, France (April, 2004)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,
and University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (August-September 2004)

University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (March 2005).

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (July 2005)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-September 2005)

University of Cambridge, (March 2006)

University of Granada, Spain (June 2006)

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (July 2006)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-September 2006)

University of Pau, France (September 2006).

National Taiwan University, Taipei (December 2006)

University of Granada, Spain (April 2007)

University of Umea, Sweden (May 2007)

Department of Mathematics, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (August 2007).

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-September 2007)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August-October 2008)

University of Boston, USA (July 2008)

University of Pau, France (November-December 2008).

University of Michigan (January 2009)

Department of Mathematics, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (April 2009).

University of Granada, Spain (May 2009)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August 2009)

University of Michigan (March 2010).

Wichita University (April 2010).

University of Granada, Spain (May 2010)

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (August 2010)

University of Granada, Spain (January 2011)

Publications

 

Research

External Funding Since 2000

1) I was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant (DP034455477) "Statistical estimation and approximation of anomalous diffusion" as Partner Investigator in collaboration with C.C. Heyde (The Australian National University) and V.V. Anh (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia). This grant will cover years 2003-2005 with A$ 65 000 per year.

2) I was awarded an EPSRC grant EP/D057361; “Fractional Models of Anomalous Diffusion with Applications to Macroeconomics, Finance and Turbulence” GR/S10186 (RCMTO91) as Principal Investigator. This grant covered years 2003-2005 with total cost on grant £9900. This grant for collaboration with O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), E.Orsinger (University of Roma, Italy) V.Anh Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) and W. Woyczynski (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio,USA)

3) I was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant:” Statistical modelling of spatiotemporal nonlinear diffusions processes with multifractal chracteristics” (the Project ID: DP0559807) as Partner Investigator in collaboration with V.V. Anh (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia), Lau, K.S. (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Angulo, J. M. and Ruiz-Medina, L.M. (University of Granada, Spain) .This grant covers years 2005-2009 with A$ 353 000.

4) I was awarded a new EPSRC grant EP/D057361  (RCMT119): “Limit theorems for spatio-temporal random fields and related topics” as Principal Investigator for the years 2006-2009 with total cost £10379. This grant is for collaboration with C.C. Heyde (The Australian National University and Columbia University, USA), M.S. Taqqu (Boston University, USA), V.Anh (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) and E. Taufer (University of Trento, Italy).

5) I was awarded a grant supported of DGI (Dirección General de Investigación) of Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, and FEDER funds (Euopean funds) for collaboration with professors J.M. Angulo and Maria D. Ruiz Medina (University of Granada, Spain). The title of the grant is: Modelling and Statistical Analysis of Local Characteristics and Memory Properties for Spatiotemporal Data. REFERENCE NUMBER:  MTM2005-08597. This grant covers years 2005-2008 with 48000 €.

6) I am a partner investigator on the JSPS (Japan) grant project “Advances and new methods for prediction theory and Tauberian theorems with application to stochastic analysis of stochastic processes with memory” (the Principal Investigator is A/Prof. A. Inoue, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Japan).

7) Grant of London Mathematical Society (2007) 2632 for invitation to UK (Edinburg, Cardiff, Swansea) professor Florin Avram (University of Pau, France), £1000.

8) I was awarded a grant supported of DGI (Dirección General de Investigación) of Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, and FEDER funds (Euopean funds) for collaboration with professors M. D. Ruiz Medina and J.M. Angulo (University of Granada, Spain). The title of the grant is: Wavelet Methods for Inference from Functional Data in Singular Spaces. REFERENCE NUMBER:  MTM2008-03903. This grant covers year 2009 with 27000 € .

9) I am Principal Investigator of the Grant RCMT152 Commission of the European Communities PIRSES-GA-2008-230804 (Marie Curie) “Multi-parameter Multi-fractional Brownian Motion” for collaboration of Cardiff University and CNRS, Nancy (France); Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Ukraine) and Bar Ilan University (Israel). This grant covers years 2009-2011 with 90000 €

Major Conference Talks Since 2004

2nd Spanish Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Environment Processes, (Granada, Spain, 2004), Invited Lecture

Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, (Swansea, UK, 2005), Invited Lecture

International Conference: Modern Problems and New Trends in probability Theory (Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 2005), Invited Lecture

W-optimal design and related statistical issues (Jouan les Pins, France, 2005), Invited Lecture

Modern stochastics: theory and applications (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2006), Invited Lecture, Organiser of Section: Limit theorems.

Workshop on Stochastic Analysis, (Swansea, UK, 2007), Invited Lecture

Workshop “Recent Developments in Finance and Applied Statistics” (National Australian University, Canberra, Australia, 2007), Invited Lecture

Statistics for Dependent Data (StatsDep) (Paris, France, 2008), Invited Lecture

Croatian Congress of Mathematics (Osijek, Croatia, 2008), Invited Lecture

International Conference on Probablity and Statistics with Applications, (Debrecen, Hungary, 2009, 8-10 June), Invited Lecture

Modern stochastics: theory and applications (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2010), Invited Lecture, Organiser of Section: Limit theorems.

Postgraduate Students

Research Students at Cardiff University:

E. Taufer (2002-2004): passed through PhD examination in December 2004.

Bakeerathan Gunaratnam (2006-2007): passed through examination in December 2007 (M. Phil program).

S.Petherick (2007-2010), PhD program.

A. Kress (2011-2014), PhD program.

Research students at other Universities:

N.Suvak (2008-2010), PhD program at Osijek University (Croatia).

Past: As a major Professor, advised 16 scientists who received a Ph.D. in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. They work at different Universities of Ukraine, USA, Australia, Italy, Israel, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Poland, Croatia and Egypt.

Biography

Msc –1973

PhD – 1976

Doctor of Science Degree-1990

Graduated from Mathematical-Mechanics Faculty of Kyiv University, 1973 (Msc).

Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics) from Moscow Institute for Electronic Constructions (MIEM) in 1976,

PhD title: Central limit theorem for random fields and some problems of statistics.

Science Doctor Degree (Habilitation) in Physics and Mathematics (Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics) from Institute of Mathematics Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1990, Kyiv, Title: Limit theorems for functionals of homogeneous isotropic random fields and related topics.

Previous Positions

Engineer, Inst. of Cybernetics Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1973-1976

Senior Scientific Researcher, Inst. of Cybernetics Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1976-1977

Assistant-professor, Kyiv University, 1977-1980

Associate professor, Kyiv University, 1980-1991

Professor, Kyiv University, 1991-2002.

Research/Senior Research Associate in Statistics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 1999-2000 Lecturer, Cardiff University, 2000-2003

Reader, Cardiff University, 2003-2006.

Professor, Cardiff University, 2006-to date.