Marzia Angela Cremona

Dr. Marzia Angela Cremona is an assistant professor in data science in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems at Université Laval (Canada), and a researcher at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval research center. She obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematical Models and Methods for Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2016, and she joined Université Laval in 2019 after spending almost four years at the Pennsylvania State University (US).

Her research interests focus on machine learning methods for the analysis of large, high-dimensional and complex data and their application to computational biology and “Omics” sciences. In particular, she is interested in developing statistically sound and computationally efficient tools for the analysis of functional data, i.e., data that can be represented as curves.

Marzia has published 17 peer-reviewed scientific articles in top bioinformatics, statistics and genomics journals and has given more than 50 oral presentations, of which 25 as an invited speaker. She is the recipient of the research medal awards 2020, 2021 and 2022from her university, as well as of the CFE-CMStatistics Early Career Investigator Award 2017 and the ERC IASC Young Researcher Award 2022, among others. Marzia’s research is currently funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).