Olga Vitek received the PhD degree in statistics from Purdue University. She is currently a professor with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Her research interests include statistical science, machine learning, mass spectrometry and systems biology. Statistical methods and open-source software MSstats and Cardinal developed in her lab are used in academia and industry, and were recently recognized with the Chan Zuckerberg Essential Open Source Software for Science Award. She is a senior member of the International Society for Computational Biology, and an elected member of the Council of HUPO and of the board of directors of USHUPO. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics and of Journal of Proteome Research.