Olga Vitek
Olga Vitek is a biostatistician and computer scientist specializing in bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, causal inference of biological function, and the development of open-source software for statistical analysis in these areas. She is a professor in the College of Science and Khoury College of Computer Sciences of Northeastern University.

Education and career
Vitek earned a bachelor's degree in econometrics and statistics from the University of Geneva in 1995, and a master's degree in 1996. She earned a second master's degree in mathematical statistics at Purdue University in 2001, and completed her PhD at Purdue in 2005. As a graduate student, she interned with Eli Lilly and Company; her 2005 doctoral dissertation, An Inferential Approach to Protein Backbone Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment, was jointly supervised by statistician Bruce A. Craig and computer scientist Chris Bailey-Kellogg.

After postdoctoral research with Ruedi Aebersold at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Vitek joined the Purdue University faculty in 2006, with a joint appointment in the departments of statistics and computer science. She moved to Northeastern University in 2014, where she held the title of Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor before being promoted to full professor.

Research
Vitek's research contributions include work with David E. Salt at Purdue on genetic adaptations allowing plants to tolerate salt, 
and a study debunking earlier claims that some programming languages cause their users to write buggier code than other languages.

Recognition
Vitek was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American statisticians
American women computer scientists
American women statisticians
University of Geneva alumni
Purdue University alumni
Northeastern University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
21st-century American women