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Marianthi Markatou is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of Research and Healthcare Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo. She also holds adjunct roles in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) and serves as Assistant Director of the Institute for Healthcare Informatics. Her research spans statistical theory (e.g., robustness, statistical distances, mixture models) and applications in biomedical informatics, drug safety, and telemedicine.
Education: PhD in Statistics from Penn State University, MA in Statistics from University of Rochester, BS in Mathematics/Physics from University of Patras, Greece. She has received multiple accolades, including ASA/IMS Fellowships and the Senior Researcher of the Year Award (2019).
Her recent work focuses on telemedicine for underserved populations (e.g., hepatitis C treatment integration with opioid therapy), clustering algorithms for mixed-type data, and kernel-based statistical methods. Major grants include PCORI funding for telemedicine HCV care and FDA grants for drug safety assessment. She contributes to journals like JASA and leads initiatives like the UP-STAT conference.
