Statistics · ML · Complex Adaptive Systems

Malek M. Itani

Statistician and machine learning researcher.

Right now I’m interested in developing statistical methodology for systems with heterogeneous and non-stationary data-generating processes.

Portrait of Malek M. Itani

Selected work

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Systems Decision Lab

Studying petabyte-scale scientific workflows on a laptop, by simulating their metadata instead of their data.

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Acquisition-Aware Falsification of Unsupervised Radiomic Phenotypes in Multi-Vendor Breast MRI

Medical imaging

Reproducibility

Detecting sensor induced effects on high dimensional data.

Type	Manuscript

Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting in the Baltic States

Electricity markets

A LASSO benchmark refitted every delivery day across 964 days of Baltic day-ahead prices — and what happens…

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Publications

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2017

Gold nanoparticles-coated polystyrene beads for the multiplex detection of viral DNA

Fakih, H. H., Itani, M. M., & Karam, P. · Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 250, 446–452

Paper
2026

Regime-Dependent Determinants of Systemic Banking Crises: Evidence from a Finite-Mixture Logit Model

Malek Itani, Mahmoud Arayssi, & Noura Yassine

Under review
2026

The Illusion of Predictability: Structural Heterogeneity and Informational Noise in Corporate Greenwashing

Malek Itani, Mahmoud Arayssi, & Noura Yassine

Under review

2 further co-authored papers are under review — see the full list.

Recent writing

The New Geopolitical Chokeholds

Power has moved up the stack — from straits and pipelines to lithography, compute, cloud and payment rails, and to the small number of…