SUNY Distinguished Professor
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Dr. Marianthi Markatou is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of Research and Healthcare Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Professions, with an additional appointment at the Jacobs School of Medicine, University at Buffalo. Her research interests are broad and include problems at the interface of statistics and machine learning, mixture models, robustness, theory and applications of statistical distances, model assessment and selection, classification and clustering, large language models, emerging safety sciences, biomedical informatics, text mining, and other healthcare applications. Since 2016, Dr. Markatou has been the lead biostatistician on a study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) that investigated a facilitated telemedicine model integrated into opioid treatment programs compared to offsite referral for treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among people with opioid use disorder.
Dr. Markatou is an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. She has been awarded twice a Fulbright fellowship to establish and expand research collaborations between the United States and Greece. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the International Statistical Review, the flagship journal of the International Statistical Institute.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST