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.
[1] As a graduate student, she interned with Eli Lilly and Company;[2] her 2005 doctoral dissertation, An Inferential Approach to Protein Backbone Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment,[3] was jointly supervised by statistician Bruce A. Craig and computer scientist Chris Bailey-Kellogg.
[4] After postdoctoral research with Ruedi Aebersold at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Vitek joined the Purdue University faculty in 2006,[4] with a joint appointment in the departments of statistics and computer science.
[10] Vitek's research contributions include work with David E. Salt at Purdue University on genetic adaptations allowing plants to tolerate salt,[11] and a study debunking earlier claims that some programming languages cause their users to write buggier code than other languages.
[12] She leads the project MSstats with Meena Choi and the project Cardinal with Kylie Bemis to develop open-sourced statistical software for mass spectrometry analyses, funded by the Essential Open Source Software for Science program of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.