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Marta Karas

Senior Manager, Statistical & Quantitative Science

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Marta Karas works as Senior Manager, Statistics with Takeda pharmaceutical company. Formerly, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Onnela Lab in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she worked on methods for digital phenotyping and its applications for data collected in people with ALS. Her statistical methods interests include: methods for processing, features extraction and analysis of accelerometry data, power estimation in complex settings, functional regression methods, R software development. Marta received PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in December 2021. She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland in 2013 and 2015. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she worked as a research assistant at Indiana University and as an analyst for Opera Software Internet browser company. In her free time, Marta enjoys connecting with people and running.