Education  

     1988 - 1992 Alexandru Vlahuță National College, Râmnicu Sărat (Mathematics - Physics section)  

     1992 - 1997 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics

     1997 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. The advanced university degree 

        (Bachelor Thesis: Spectral characterizations of commutative Banach algebras)

     1997 - 1998 Master Degree in Real and Complex Analysis, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics 

        (Dissertation: Applications of complex functions in locally m-convex algebras)

     2000 - 2005 Ph.D. in Mathematics, the field Robust Statistics, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, distinction Magna cum Laude 

        (Ph.D. Thesis: Robust statistical methods and applications, scientific coordinator Prof. Dr. Ion Văduva)

     2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral School of Economic Sciences, National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu", Romanian Academy,

         (Postdoctoral Thesis: Robust statistical methods with applications in portfolio optimization)

    Academic and Research Positions

      1998 - 2001   Junior Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

      2001 - 2004   Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

      2004 - 2007   Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

      2007 - 2009   Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest    

      2007 -   Senior Researcher II, Gheorghe Mihoc - Caius Iacob Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Romanian Academy

      2009 -   Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

    Academic Awards and Distinctions

• Jan Tinbergen Award granted by the International Statistical Institute in the framework of the 54th Session held in Berlin (13 - 20 August 2003)

• Award granted by the Romanian Statistical Society for the best paper presented in the framework of Octav Onicescu seminar, 2004.

• N.N. Constantinescu Award granted by the Academy of Economic Studies, 2005.

• Excellence Diploma granted by the Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest for articles published in journals indexed in ISI Web of Science, 2007.

• The First Prize for paper presentation at the PhD Young Researchers Section of the 4thInternational Conference for Applied Statistics, November 20th, 2008.

• Award for excellence in scientific research accorded by the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies for articles published in ISI Thomson journals, 2013.

• Diploma Opera Omnia accorded by the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, for article published in ISI Thomson journals, 2014.

     Research Scholarships 

• Tempus scholarship at Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy (1 April - 30 June 1998)

• Erasmus - Socrates doctoral scholarship at Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris, France (12 March – 4 June 2001)

• Governmental scholarship at Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris, France (1 March - 29 June 2003)

     Academic Visits Abroad

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris, France  (1 - 24 September 2006)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris, France (27 August - 27 September 2007)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris 6, Paris, France (2-14 March 2011)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris 6, Paris, France (1 September – 15 October 2011)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris 6, Paris, France (1 March – 16 April 2012)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris 6, Paris, France (29 August – 12 September 2015)

• Research visit at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris 6, Paris, France (1 - 10 September 2017)

      Research Grants

• Research project  CNCSIS 16Tdn/2004, Robust estimation methods and applications, obtained by national competition and granted by the National Commission of Scientific Research for High Education, 2004, (Project Leader).

• Research project CNCSIS AT 125/2006-2007, Robust methods in parametric estimation,  obtained by national competition and granted by the National Commission of Scientific Research for High Education, 2006-2007, (Project Leader).

• Research project Robust statistical methods with applications in portfolio optimization, supported by the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number SOP HRD/89/1.5/S/62988 (2010-2012), obtained by national competition, 2010-2012, (Project Leader).

• Research project PN-II-RU-TE-2012-3-0007, Flexible statistical modeling and robust analysis of financial data, obtained by national competition and financed by CNCS-UEFISCDI, 2013-2016, (Project Leader). 

• Project PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2019-0552, Robust estimation for the single index model using pseudodistances, obtained by national competition and financed by CNCS-UEFISCDI, 2019, (Project Leader)

• Project  PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1112, Robust empirical likelihood and related methods for semiparametric models, obtained by national competition and financed by CNCS-UEFISCDI, 2021-2023, (Project Leader)

      Editorial Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of Open Journal of Statistics, Scientific Research Publishing, USA, 2011- ...

• Member of the Editorial Board of Statistics Research Letters, World Academic Publishing, Hong Kong, 2012-...

• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Statistics and Probability, Science Publishing Corporation, Bremen, Germany, 2013-...

• Member of the Reviewer Board of Entropy Journal, MDPI, 2020-...

• Referee work for many journals including: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Bernoulli, Biometrika, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (publication of American Statistical Association), Statistica Sinica, Statistical Papers, Statistics, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Metrika, Advances in Statistical Analysis, Kybernetica, Sankhya A, Sankhya B, Econometrics and Statistics, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Comptes Rendus Mathematique,  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Entropy, European Journal of Operational Research, Optimization, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Progress in Applied Mathematics, Algorithms, Risks, Computational and Applied Mathematics.

• Referee work for the publishing houses: Springer, Wiley, MatrixRom Publishing House, Academy of Economic Studies Publishing House.

• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.

      Organization of Scientific Meetings 

• Organizer of the special session “Statistique et probabilities appliquees” (together with Prof. Michel Broniatowski, Univ. Paris 6, France)  in the framework of 10 eme Colloque Franco-Roumain de Mathematiques Appliquees, Poitiers, France, 26-31 August 2010.

• Organizer of the special session "Divergence measures and statistical applications" (together with Prof. Vlad Barbu, Universite de Rouen, France), at the 22nd Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics, Bucharest, Romania, 10-11 May 2019.

• Member of the Organizing Committee of the National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, 2007, 2011, 2012. 

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023.

• Member of the Scientific Program Committee, 22nd European Young Statisticians Meeting, 2021.

• Co-organizer of the Workshop "New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications", Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 17th November 2022.

      Professional Membership

• Member of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics (SPSR)

• Member of the Romanian Mathematical Society (SSMR)

• Member of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics.

• Member of Group de Travail - Divergence et Entropy, Laboratoire de Statistique Theorique et Appliquee, Universite Paris 6, France, 2003.

• Member of the Specialized team RACDS: Robust Analysis of Complex Data Sets in the framework of CMStatistics (2015- ).

     Presentations at International Conferences 

1. Aida Toma, (2002) Principal component analysis based on some robust estimators of the covariance or correlation matrix: influence functions and efficiencies, 6th Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22-25 May 2002.

2. Aida Toma, (2002) Some robust estimators for multivariate location and scatter, EMS 2002 Conference (24th European Meeting of Statisticians and 14thPague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions and Random Processes), held in Prague, Czech Republic,19 -23 August 2002r.

3. Aida Toma, (2002) Estimateurs robustes de la matrice des covariances pour lois lognormales et normales-lognormales multidimensionelles, 6 éme Colloque Franco-Roumain de Mathematiques Appliquees, Perpignian, France, 2-6 September 2002.

4. Aida Toma, (2002) Robust multivariate estimators applied in statistical data analysis, 10thInternational Conference on Economic Cybernetics, Bucharest, 4-5 October 2002.

5. Aida Toma, (2003) Using an estimator of the covariance matrix based on the sign covariance matrix at multivariate normal-lognormal models, First EMS, SMAI and SMF Joint Conference Applied Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics-AMAM 2003, Nice, France,10-13 February 2003.

6. Aida Toma, (2003) Robust estimations for multivariate normal-lognormal distributions, 54thSession of the International Statistical Institute, Berlin, Germany,13-20 August 2003. (Invited Speaker)

7. Aida Toma, (2004) Minimum Hellinger distance estimators for some multivariate distributions, Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences - SMABS, Jena, Germany, 17 – 22 July 2004.

8. Aida Toma, (2004) Minimum Hellinger distance estimators for some multivariate distributions, The Sixth edition of the joint meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, Barcelona, 25-31 July 2004.

9. Aida Toma, (2006) Robustness aspects for some minimum distance functionals,  8 éme Colloque Franco-Roumain de Mathematiques Appliquees, Chambery, France, 28 August-1 September 2006.

10. Aida Toma, (2007) Bounded influence tests through divergences, International Conference Trends and Challenges in Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania, 20-23 June 2007.

11. Aida Toma, (2008) Robust estimations and tests through divergences, 9 éme Colloque Franco-Roumain de Mathematiques Appliquees, Braşov, Romania, 28 August-2 September 2008.

12. Aida Toma, (2008) Robust estimations and tests using divergences and duality techniques, 4th International Conference on Applied Statistics –ICAS 4, Bucharest, Romania, 20-22 November 2008.

13. Aida Toma, Samuela Leoni-Aubin, (2009) Robust inference based on divergence optimization, The 9th Balkan Conference on Operational Research – BALCOR 2009, Constanţa, Romania, 2-6 September 2009.

14. Aida Toma, (2010) Robust statistical methods, Romanian-American Workshop “Applications in Statistics”, held at “Gheorghe Mihoc – Caius Iacob” Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Bucharest, 13 May 2010.

15. Aida Toma, (2011) Estimation Criteria Based on Pseudodistance Minimization,  14thApplied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Conference – ASMDA 2011, Rome, Italy, 6-10 June 2011, (Invited Speaker at the special session “Building models and handling statistical inference”, organized by Prof. Vladimir Zaiats)

16. Aida Toma, (2011) Robust estimation for financial returns: an approach based on pseudodistance minimization, The Seventh Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Brasov, Romania, 29 June – 5 July 2011.

17. Aida Toma, (2011) Robust and efficient estimation methods for asset returns, "The Economic Scientific Research, Support to Welfare and Human development in European Context - Post Doctoral School"-Socio Economic Approach: Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis and Macroeconomic Modeling, Bucharest, 22-23 November 2011.

18. Aida Toma, (2012) New statistical methods for portfolio selection,  "Labour Market in Romania. Challenges in the Global and European Context.", conference organized by the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu", Romanian Academy,  11 - 12 October 2012.

19. Aida Toma, Samuela Leoni-Aubin, (2013) Minimum pseudodistance estimators and applications to portfolio optimization, The 15th Conference Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis - ASMDA 2013, Mataro Barcelona, Spain, 25 - 28 June 2013.

20. Aida Toma, Samuela Leoni-Aubin, (2013) Robust minimum pseudodistance estimators and applications in portfolio optimization, International Conference on Robust Statistics - ICORS 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 8-12 July 2013.

21. Aida Toma, Silvia Dedu, (2013) Quantitative techniques for financial risk assessment: a comparative approach using different risk measures and estimation techniques, International Conference 'Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches' – ESPERA 2013, Bucharest, Romania, 11-12 December 2013.

22. Aida Toma, Silvia Dedu, (2014) The minimum pseudodistance approach: an application to extreme quantile estimation in finance, Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference SMTDA 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 June 2014.

23. Aida Toma, Silvia Dedu, (2014) New methods for extreme quantile estimation in finance, International Conference ’Economic Scientific Research – Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches’, ESPERA 2014, Bucuresti, 13-14 November, 2014. 

24. Silvia Dedu, Aida Toma, (2014) An integrated risk measure and information theory  approach for modeling financial data and solving decision making problems, International Conference ’Economic Scientific Research – Theoretical, Empirical and  Practical Approaches’ ESPERA 2014, Bucuresti, 13-14 November, 2014. 

25. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2015) Empirical divergence estimates in moment condition models: robustness properties, 16th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society & Demographic Analysis and Research International Workshop, Piraeus, Greece, 30 June - 4 July 2015.

26. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2015) Empirical divergence estimates in moment condition models: robustness properties, 8th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CM Statistics 2015), Senate House, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 12 - 14 December 2015. (Invited Speaker at the special session “Multivariate Analysis”, organized by Prof. Apostolos Batsidis)

27. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2016) Robust inference with minimum dual divergence estimators for moment condition models, International Conference on Robust Statistics ICORS 2016, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-8 July 2016.

28. Aida Toma, (2016) Minimum dual divergence estimators for moment condition models, XIIIeme Colloque Franco-Roumain de Mathematiques Appliquees, Iasi, Romania, 25-29 August 2016. (Invited Speaker at the special session "Statistics" organized by Cristian Preda and Celine Lacaux)

29. Aida Toma, (2016) Robust estimates for the single index model, The 24th Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Craiova, Romania, 15 - 18 September 2016.

30. Aida Toma, Cristinca Fulga, (2019) Robust estimation for the single index model using pseudodistances, The 18th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society and Demographics 2019 Workshop (ASMDA 2019), Florence, Italy, 11 - 14 June 2019.

31. Aida Toma, Alex Karagrigoriou, Paschalini Trentou, (2020) Model selection criteria based on pseudodistances” Conference "Statistical Modeling with Applications -StatMod2020", Romania, 6-7 November 2020.

32. Aida Toma, Alex Karagrigoriou, Paschalini Trentou (2021) Robust Model Selection Criteria, The 19th Conference of Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society ASMDA 2021, 1 – 4 June 2021. Invited presentation in the framework of the special session „Models & Methods in Stochastic and Multivariate Data Analysis”.

33. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2022), Robust Minimum Empirical Divergence Estimators for Moment Condition Models, 7th Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference and Demographics  2022 Workshop, Athens, Greece, 7-10 June 2022.

34. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, Luiza Badin, Silvia Dedu, (2022) Robust Pitman type estimators for moment condition models, 24th International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2022), Bologna, Italy, 23-26 August 2022. 

35. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, Luiza Badin, Silvia Dedu, (2022) Robust Estimators for Moment Condition Models, StatMod 2022, Statistical Modeling with  Applications, Bucharest, Romania, 14-15 October 2022.

36. Aida Toma, (2023) Robust Estimators for Semiparametric Moment Condition Models, International Conference on Robust Statistics - ICORS 2023, Toulouse, France, May 23-26, 2023.

37. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, Luiza Badin, Silvia Dedu, (2023) Robust Pitman type Estimators for Moment Condition Models, Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference - ASMDA 2023, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 6-9, 2023.

38. Aida Toma, Robust methods for semiparametric moment condition models, International Workshop Entropies et Divergences: Modelisation, Statistique, Algorithmique, Caen, France, May 14-17, 2024. (Invited Speaker) 

     Presentations at National Conferences

1. Aida Toma, (2002) A robust estimator of the covariance matrix for multivariate lognormal distributions,  5th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 21-22 February 2002.

2. Aida Toma, (2003) Estimating the parameters of the multivariate normal-lognormal distribution using Oja median and a SCM based estimator,  6th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 21-22 February 2003.

3. Aida Toma, (2004) Minimum Hellinger distance estimators for some multivariate distributions,  7th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 20-21 February 2004.

4. Aida Toma, (2005) Robust estimations for randomly censored data, 8th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 22-23 April 2005.

5. Aida Toma, (2006) Robustness aspects for some minimum divergence functionals, 9th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 28-29 April 2006.

6. Aida Toma, (2008) Parametric estimators and tests using divergences, 11th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest,18 April 2008.

7. Aida Toma, (2009) Robust saddlepoint test statistics based on divergence optimization, 12th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Constanța, 10-11April 2009.

8. Aida Toma, (2010) Optimal robust M-estimators using Renyi pseudodistances, 13th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 16-17 April 2010.

9. Aida Toma, (2011) Decomposable pseudodistances and applications in continuous families, 14th National Conference of the Society for Probability and   Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 29 April 2011.

10. Aida Toma, Samuela Leoni-Aubin, (2012) Minimum pseudodistance estimators of multivariate location and scatter and applications, 15th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 27 April 2012.

11. Aida Toma, (2013) Robust statistical methods with applications in portfolio optimization, Workshop "Economic Scientific Research Support of Welfare and Developement in European Context", National Institute of Economic Research "Costin C. Kirițescu" of the Romanian Academy, 25 March 2013.

12. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2013) Robustness of dual divergence estimators for moment condition models, 16th National Conference of the Society for Probability and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 26 April 2013.

13. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2015) Empirical divergence estimates in moment condition models: robustness properties, 18th Conference of the Society for Probabilities and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 8 May 2015.

14. Aida Toma, Amor Keziou, (2016) Minimum dual divergence estimators for moment condition models: a Monte-Carlo simulation study, 19th Conference of the Society for Probabilities and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 27 May 2016.

15. Aida Toma, (2017) Robust estimations for models satisfying linear constraints using a generalization of the optimal Bs-robust estimator, 20th Conference of the Society for Probabilities and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 28-29 April 2017, (Invited Speaker at the special session Entropy, Divergences and Model Selection organized by Vasile Preda and Vlad Barbu).

16. Aida Toma, (2018) Robust estimations for the single index model, 21th Conference of the Society for Probabilities and Statistics from Romania, Bucharest, 13-14 April 2018.

17. Paschalini Trentou, Aida Toma, Alexandros Karagrigoriou, (2019) The use of pseudodistances in model selection, 22nd Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics, Bucharest, 10-11 May 2019.

18. Aida Toma, (2023) Robust Estimators for Semiparametric Moment Condition Models, the 24th Conference of the Romanian Society of Probability and Statistics, Bucharest, April 21-22, 2023.

    Presentations at Scientific Seminars

1. Aida Toma (2001) Robust methods for estimation, presented at the scientific seminar Stochastic Modeling and Simulations, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, 2 March 2001.

2. Aida Toma, (2001) Influence functions of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a covariance matrix, presented at the scientific seminar Statistique Appliquee et Applications de la Statistique, LSTA, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 28 May 2001.

3. Aida Toma, (2001) Robust methods in regression, presented at the scientific Stochastic Modeling and Simulations, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, 29 June 2001.

4. Aida Toma, (2002)  Robust methods for lifetime data, presented at the scientific seminar Stochastic Modeling and Simulations, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, 5 May 2002.

5. Aida Toma, (2002) The analysis of censored data, presented at the scientific seminar Stochastic Modeling and Simulations, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, 12 December 2002.

6. Aida Toma, (2003) Robust estimations for multivariate lognormal distributions: influence functions and efficiencies, presented at the scientific seminar Divergence and Entropy, LSTA, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 21 May 2003.

7. Aida Toma, (2003) Parametric estimations in models associated with PERT type problems, presented at the scientific seminar Octav Onicescu, National Commission of Statistics, Bucharest, 6 November 2003. (Invited Speaker)

8. Aida Toma, (2008) Minimum divergence estimators and tests: robustness results, presented at the scientific seminar of the Mathematics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, 17 June, 2008.

   Summer Schools, International Courses and other Conferences Attended

1. Summer School Evolution Problems, Braşov, România, June 27-July 2, 1998.

2. Attendance at the short course presented by Professor Donald Rubin, Univ. Harvard USA and entitled Basic Concepts of Statistical Inference for Causal Effects in Experiments and Observational Studies, Jena, Germany, 17 July 2004.

3. Fourth European Congress of Mathematics, Stocholm, Sweden, June 27-July 2, 2004.

4. Colloque Statistique nonparametrique et statistique des processus, LSTA et ISUP, Paris, France, 14 September 2007. 

5. Croissance economique et soutenabilite sociale. Defis et perspectives europeennes, Conference organized by the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu", Romanian Academy, 7-8 October 2011.

6. "Compared economic efficiency of various forms of energy: an approach from a sustainable development perspective", conference organized by the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu", Romanian Academy, 31 May 2012.

7. "Welfare and Scientific Research", conference organized by the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu", Romanian Academy, 21 November 2012.