Katariina
Perkonoja
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Biography
I started studying statistics at the University of Turku in 2016 and graduated in 2020. While working as a biostatistician at Auria Clinical Informatics, a department of Turku University Hospital, I got interested in data privacy, data anonymization and the potential of synthetic data. In my master's thesis "Generating Synthetic Longitudinal Patient Data with the PrivBayes Method" I generated synthetic longitudinal patient data with Bayesian networks from real patient data retrieved from the database of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland. I decided to continue with the topic and I am currently working on my dissertation "Methods for generating and evaluating synthetic longitudinal patient data".
Teaching
I am currently teaching the TILM3626 Statistical Consultation course. Previously, in 2019, I worked as a research assistant at the university, where I organized training sessions for students. I enjoy teaching and have received positive feedback from participants. In the future, I hope to establish my own research group focused on data privacy and synthetic data, and to continue teaching in this field.
Research
My current research focuses on synthetic data generation, particularly for longitudinal patient data. I am also familiar with several anonymization methods, including spectral approaches. In the future, I am interested in further expanding my expertise to additional privacy-preserving methods.