Marta Karas
Associate Director, Statistics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMarta Karas is an Associate Director of Statistics at Takeda with 11 years of experience translating wearable and physiological sensor data into robust statistical models for drug development and digital health. She combines a PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins with hands-on work on accelerometers, ambulatory blood pressure, respiratory monitors, and polysomnography to advance digital assessments in hypersomnolence, ALS, and suicidality research. Her background spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral research at Harvard to data science roles at Evidation and Novartis—giving her a rare blend of methodological rigor and product-focused analytics. She is skilled at turning noisy, high-frequency biosensor streams into clinically meaningful endpoints and pipelines ready for regulatory contexts. Based in Boston, she also pursues digital phenotyping research, signaling a sustained interest in personalizing measurement for mental and neurological health. Notably, her career path reflects both deep statistical theory and practical sensor-data engineering, enabling cross-functional collaboration from study design to deployment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Polish, English
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Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
martakarass/runstats
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
Fast Computation of Running Statistics for Time Series
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 4 months
computationtime-seriesstatistics
martakarass/upstrap_manuscript
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:285 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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