
Role: PhD Student
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Email Address: maria@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
I hold a 4-year diploma in Computer Science and 2-year Master of Science in Statistical Science both from Athens University of Economics and Business and a PhD from University of Cambridge, MRC-Biostatistics Unit supervised by Professor Sylvia Richardson. The topic of my doctoral thesis is probabilistic machine learning, and, more precisely, towards using generative modelling in healthcare.
I am very happy to be a postdoctoral associate with The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard holding an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Research Scholarship.
Since the spring semester of 2020 I have also been a visiting researcher at Professor Costis Daskalakis' group at CSAIL, MIT after being granted the 2020 Trinity College, University of Cambridge award in Mathematics.
In parallel to that, from April till October 2022, I was working with Professor Carola Schönlieb , on a research project of mine at CMIH , DAMTP , University of Cambridge.
Prior to pursuing a PhD, I was a research associate (2014-2016) at two EU funded research projects at Athens University of Economics and Business and Technical University of Crete. The aim of my research during these projects, was causal inference through the lens of Information Theory and Bayesian theory and methodology with application to economics and computational biology.
The focus of my MSc thesis was on "Context Tree Weighting for Signal Processing, Bayesian Inference and Model Selection: Theory and Algorithms", a topic that lies at the intersection of Information Theory and Bayesian statistics, under the insightful supervision of Professor Petros Dellaportas. I was very honoured to have the extension of my MSc thesis "Bayesian context trees: Modelling and exact inference for discrete time series" being accepted and published by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (methodology)
During my undergraduate studies, I was delighted to explore the essentials of theoretical computer science namely algorithmic complexity, logic, computability, algorithmic game theory and information theory.
My fields of interest lie in the underpinnings, theory and methodology of machine intelligence, Bayesian inference, theoretical computer science and information theory with applications to healthcare.
September 2023 onwards I will be joining The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to work with an extraordinary set of Researchers, namely Professor Constantinos Daskalakis, Professor Caroline Uhler and Doctor Anthony Phillipakis
Contribution to society:
- Founder and chair of {Dis}Ability in AI and founder and secretary of Women in Data Science and Statistics (RSS special interest group);
- ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning member of the editorial board (2023- present);
- Accessibility Chair of ICML (2021-present);
- Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Chair of NeurIPS (2021);
- Social Chair of NeurIPS (2019-2020);
- Reviewer at: Journal I.E.E.E. Transactions On Information Theory (2016- present), Journal I.E.E.E. Transactions On Signal Processing (2018- present), Journal Entropy (2020-present), European Journal of Applied Mathematics (2021- present), Workshop of Women in Machine Learning (2018- present), I.E.E.E. International Symposium on Information Theory (2019- present), International Conference on Machine Learning (2020- present), Neural Information Processing Systems (2020- present), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (2022- present), Statistics and Computing (2022- present), Nature Computational Science (2023- present)
- Originator and organiser of several workshops in my field (eg " Advances and Challenges in Machine Learning Languages")
Selected Papers
Maria Skoularidou (2023)Using generative modelling in healthcareDoctoral Thesis :
M. Kouvli, E. Karagianni, A. Gamvroula, T. Kalamatianos, G. Stranjalis, M. Skoularidou, and E. Anagnostou. (2023)Balancing with eyes closed: conventional and advanced sway features of the romberg test in patients and controls
European Journal of Neurology, :
Evangelos Anagnostou, Evangelia Karagianni, Maria Skoularidou (2022)Joint entropy analysis of anterior-posterior and medial-lateral body sway
Medical Engineering and Physics :
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Lambros Mertzanis, Athina Panotopoulou, Ioannis Papageorgiou, and Maria Skoularidou (equal contribution) (2022)Bayesian context trees: Modelling and exact inference for discrete time series
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B :
Lei Xu, Maria Skoularidou, Alfredo Cuesta-Infante, Kalyan Veeramachaneni (2019)Modeling Tabular data using Conditional GAN
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Thirty-third :
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Lampros Mertzanis, Athina Panotopoulou, Maria Skoularidou. (2018)Deep Tree Models for 'Big' Biological Data
IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (Invited paper) :
Ioannis Kontoyiannis and Maria Skoularidou (equal contribution) (2016)Estimating the directed information and testing for causality
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 62.11: 6053-6067
Petros Dellaportas, Anastasios Plataniotis and Maria Skoularidou (2016)Modelling bank failures over short-term positions
Systemic Risk Tomography (SY.R.TO.) Conference, :
Nick Heard, Konstantina Palla and Maria Skoularidou (equal contribution) (2016)Topic modelling of authentication events in an enterprise computer network
IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) :
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Athina Panotopoulou and Maria Skoularidou (equal contribution) (2012)Context Trees and Model Selection for Discrete Time Series
IEEE Information Theory Workshop :
Maria Skoularidou, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Jan Stanczuk (2022)Inverting GANs for improved imputation of electronic health records
In preparation :
Maria Skoularidou and Sach Mukherjee (2022)On the Statistical Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Networks for Non-perceptual Data
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Maria Skoularidou and Shaun Seaman (2022)Imputing missing data using generative modelling
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Maria Skoularidou and Sylvia Richardson (2022)Detection of molecular quantitative trait loci in human genome
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Maria Skoularidou (2022)The what, where and how of Bayesian Mixture Models
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Maria Skoularidou and Petros Dellaportas (2022)Multiple time series classification and forecasting with mixture modelling
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