MaryLena Bleile, Ph.D 🇨🇦 (@ML_does_ML) header
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Overcoming false dichotomies one Bayesian mixed model at a time. Twitter activity does not represent my employer.

Queens, NY
Joined July 2020
This is still by far a work in progress - any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated! Excited to see what next year has to offer!
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Thrilled to share that the first few chapters of my book are now available at causal-rl-bridges.com/ ! Many thanks to my editor Lara Spieker (CRC Press) and the many colleagues whose conversation formed this work.
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Thank you also to our sponsors CRC Press , Springer, and Morph Labs, especially Shaker Zaman (Morph Labs) who arranged the venue and food!
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Special thank you to our speakers: Giovanni Cerulli (National Research Council of Italy), Igor Shuryak, MD, PhD (Columbia Radiation Oncology), and Piyush Jha (Georgia Tech and Amazon Web Services)! Pre-recorded versions of the talks will be released on YouTube shortly.
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Last Saturday (July 26, 2025), I had the pleasure of hosting an intimate yet powerful Night Science Workshop in New York City, bringing together a diverse group of academics and industry practitioners to unpack the synergy between causal inference and reinforcement learning.
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🎉 I'm honored to be selected as a Finalist in the Women in AI Awards 2025 among an incredible group of innovators, researchers, and leaders shaping the future of AI across North America!
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Still substantially starry eyed when I randomly run into the authors of my favorite books. This time I got to meet Roger Berger, author of "Statistical Inference," the quintessential graduate level stats textbook!
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Had a fantastic experience at #JSM2024! Lots of inspiring sessions and conversations~
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Thanks for a lovely day at @Columbia Biostatistics! Lots of inspiring discussion and community.
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