Her main research interests are in the areas of statistical inference for stochastic processes with long memory, stochastic simulation, stochastic modeling and financial engineering. Dr. Chronopoulou received her Master in Computational Finance, and her Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue University, respectively in 2008 and 2009. Before joining the University of Illinois, she has held a post-doctoral position in INRIA at Nancy (France), and she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at the City College of New York (CUNY).