Special Teaching Staff in Statistics

Qualifications

PhD in Statistics (Penn State University, 2019)

BSc in Mathematics and Statistics (University of Cyprus, 2014)

Specialization

Mathematics and Statistics

Employment Track

Special Teaching Staff, UCLan Cyprus (2025 – Present)

Senior Biostatistician, ClinBAY (2020 – Present)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College of London (2019-2020)

Instructor, Penn State University (2014-2019)

Research Interests

• Survival Analysis
• Bayesian Methods in Pharmaceutical Research
• Dose Escalation Designs in Phase I clinical trials

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership 

• Module Leader, Nonparametric statistics

Selected Publications 

• Huang Q., Ridout D., Tsang V., Drury E.N., Jones J.T., Bellsham-Revell H., Hadjicosta E., Seale N.A., Mehta C., Pagel C., Crowe S., Espuny-Pujol F., Franklin C.G.R., Brown K.L. (2024). Retrospective Cohort Study of Additional Procedures and Transplant-Free Survival for Patients With Functionally Single Ventricle Disease Undergoing Staged Palliation in England and Wales. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(14), doi: 10.1161/JAHA.123.033068.
• Huang Q., Ridout D., Tsang V., Drury E.N., Jones J.T., Bellsham-Revell H., Hadjicosta E., Seale N.A., Mehta C., Pagel C., Crowe S., Espuny-Pujol F., Franklin C.G.R., Brown K.L. (2023). Quantifying Additional Procedures in Functionally Single-Ventricle Disease: A National Cohort Study. Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports, 2(2), 282-286.
• Huang Q., Ridout D., Tsang V., Drury E.N., Jones J.T., Bellsham-Revell H., Hadjicosta E., Seale N.A., Mehta C., Pagel C., Crowe S., Espuny-Pujol F., Franklin C.G.R., Brown K.L. (2023). Risk factors for reintervention with functionally single-ventricle disease undergoing staged palliation in England and Wales: a retrospective cohort study. Circulation, 148(17), 1343-1345.
• Brown K.L., Huang Q., Hadjicosta E., Seale N.A., Tsang V., Anderson D., Barron D., Bellsham-Revell H., Pagel C., Crowe S., Espuny-Pujol F., Franklin C.G.R., Ridout D. (2023). Long-term survival and center volume for functionally single-ventricle congenital heart disease in England and Wales. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 166(2), 306-316.
• Hadjicosta, E., Franklin R., Seale A., et al (2021). Cohort study of intervened functionally univentricular heart in England and Wales (2000-2018). Heart, 108(13), 1046-1054.
• Hadjicosta, E. and Richards, D. (2020). Integral transform methods in goodness-of-fit testing, II: The Wishart distributions. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 72, 1317-1370.
• Hadjicosta, E. and Richards, D. (2020). Integral transform methods in goodness-of-fit testing, I: the gamma distributions. Metrika, 83, 733-777.

Selected Conference and Seminar Presentations 

• 3rd Pancyprian Statistics Day, Cyprus Technological University, Limassol, Cyprus, May 2022.
• Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics (SMAC) online talks, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, April 2022.
• Mathematics and Statistics seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, March 2019.
• Statistics Graduate Student Workshop, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, February 2019.
• Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Vancouver, Canada, August 2018.
• 50th Anniversary Conference, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, May 2018; poster session.
• Rao Prize Conference, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, May 2017; poster session.

Scholarships/Awards

• Ranked first among all students in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, 2010-2014.
• Rose and Irving Saff Award: Prize for the highest overall grade during the academic year 2011-2012, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus.