Dr. Vitek is Raymond Bradford Bradstreet Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and Director of the Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD in Statistics from Purdue University, and was previously a Faculty and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue.

Dr. Vitek's research intersects statistical science, machine learning, mass spectrometry, proteomics and systems biology. Statistical methods and open-source software developed in her lab, in particular MSstats for statistical analyses of quantitative proteomic experiments, and Cardinal for interpreting mass spectrometry imaging experiments, are widely used in academia and industry.

Dr. Vitek is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a recipient of the 2021 Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award of the US Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), of the CAREER award of the National Science Foundation, and of the Essential Open-source Software Award of the Chan-Zuckerberg foundation.