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Malek M. Itani

Statistician and machine learning researcher finding my niche in the world.

Right now I’m interested in measurement: what a number has to survive before it deserves to be acted on.

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Selected work

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Dense workload rows condensing into a metadata table above an event timeline

Systems Decision Lab
Research
Systems
Simulation

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

Sep 2026
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Two scatterplots of the same points, coloured by cluster and by scanner — indistinguishable

Acquisition-Aware Falsification of Unsupervised Radiomic Phenotypes in Multi-Vendor Breast MRI
Radiomics
Medical imaging
Clustering
Reproducibility

Detecting sensor induced effects on high dimensional data.

Jun 2026
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Three bars showing forecast error cut by 23%, 30% and 32% against a weekly naive benchmark

Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting in the Baltic States
Electricity markets
Forecasting
LASSO
Time series

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

Aug 2026
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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
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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
2026
What Do Lenders See? Disentangling Gender Signals from Organizational Substance in Credit Markets
Mahmoud Arayssi, Azza Bejaoui, Malek Itani
Under review
2026
ESG Misrepresentation in Corporate Sustainability Communication: A Comprehensive Review of Greenwashing, Brownwashing, Greenhushing, and CSR Decoupling
Mahmoud Arayssi, Malek Itani
Under review

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

Recent writing

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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…

Sep 1, 2026

The illusion of small ponds

There are no big fish in small ponds, only small fish in big ponds.

Aug 18, 2026

We have no clue what we are doing

A reality check that we all face at one point.

Aug 18, 2026
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