[1][3] Martha Beatriz Bilotti was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

She earned a master's degree in Santiago, Chile, at the Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics.

[1] She completed a doctorate in statistics at the University of Michigan in 1986;[1] her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was A problem in sequential analysis.

[4] She married Alfredo Aliaga of Columbia, Maryland, and they had three children: Viviana, Pablo and Eduardo.

[2] Aliaga died on October 15, 2011, of gallbladder cancer at her home in Columbia.