Vasileios Maroulas received his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. He held an industrial postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota and Lockheed Martin. He joined the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2010. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Business Analytics and Statistics Department at the Haslam School of Business and he is a member of the Center of Intelligence and Machine Learning at the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His main research interests are dynamic data learning, Bayesian filtering and data assimilation, and rare events estimation with applications in biology, defense, and engineering.