Marianthi Markatou
PhD
Associate Chair of Research and Healthcare Informatics
Professor
Core Faculty, CDSE PhD Program
Adjunct Professor
Research Topics
Statistical Sciences (Statistics and Biostatistics): robustness, theory (& applications) of statistical distances, mixture models, model assessment, classification & clustering, machine learning, kernel methods, foundation of "big data" analysis. Interdisciplinary: text mining, biomedical informatics, safety of medical products, data science methods, comparative effectiveness.
Education and Training
- Certificate of Training, Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
- PhD, Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University
- MA, Statistics, University of Rochester
- BS, Mathematics/Physics, University of Patras, Greece
Awards and Honors
- Fulbright Fellowship recipient (Greece) 2017
- Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) study section, Permanent Member (2014-2020)
- Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
- Scientific Advisory Committee Member, IMEDS Program, Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA
- Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (inducted 2017)
Editorial and Scientific Program Committees
- Associate Editor, Theory and Methods Section, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
- Knowledge & Data Discovery (KDD) Program Committee Member (Workshop on "Anomaly Detection in Finance", 2017)
- Data Science, Learning & Applications to Biomedical & Health Sciences Workshop, 2016
Professional Affiliations
- American Statistical Association, Elected Fellow
- BMRD Study Section (2014-2020), Permanent Member
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- International Biometric Society
- International Statistical Institute, Elected Member
- Scientific Advisory Committee Member, IMEDS, Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA
Grants
- PCORI: Patient-centered HCV care via Telemedicine for Individuals on Opiate Substitutions Therapy: A stepped-wedge Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial
- NIH/NIDA: Pharmacokinetics of Methadone in HIV/HCV co-infected patients with and without liver fibrosis.