News

1. [Announcement] Chenyin has led the paper "Causal Customer Churn Analysis with Low-rank Tensor Block Hazard Model" to be accepted for ICML 2024. Congratulations to Chenyin on this great achievement!

1. [Announcement] I am pleased to announce that Sarah's paper "Distributional Imputation for the Analysis of Censored Recurrent Events" has been accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine. Please join me in congratulating Sarah for this great work. Well done, Sarah. 

2. [Announcement] Great news. Yuwen's paper "Harnessing Inference for Optimal Linear Treatment Regimes in Personalized Medicine" has been accepted for oral presentation at the 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2024). Good job, Yuwen.

1. [Announcement] Please join me in congratulating Siyi Liu for her work "Multiply robust estimators in longitudinal studies with missing data under control-based imputation" being accepted in Biometrics. Well done, Siyi. 

1. [Announcement] A Research Poster Resources folder has been added to our Writing Guidance resource folder in Drive (accessible via the website under Resources for writing and exams). The folder contains example research poster templates for both Beamer (Overleaf) and PowerPoint, the latter generously provided by Eric Yanchenko from our department. Hope these are helpful! Best, Sarah

1. [Puplication] Here is good news. Siyi's paper "Robust analyses for longitudinal clinical trials with dropouts and non-normal continuous outcomes" has been tentatively accepted by the Journal of Statistical Theory and Related Fields. Siyi has been developing methods for control-based imputation in clinical trials. The accepted paper is one of this collection of works. Congratulations, Siyi!

2. [Milestone] Hi CIMA Staters, Eunah recently became a mom! I am sharing a picture of her baby boy (his name is Jio). So happy for you, Eunah and Jio.  

3. [Announcement] Yi has put together a fairly comprehensive list of student award opportunities, which is available on the webpage under "Resources." Yi will continuously manage the list when new opportunities show up. Thanks, Yi. Please check it out. I encourage you to apply for these awards when you see fit. If the list is missing some important ones, please let me and Yi know. Let's make the list "exhaustive"! 

1. [Puplication]  I am pleased to announce that Yuwen's paper "Double penalized integration estimator of combining randomized experiments and historical controls" has been accepted at UAI (39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence) 2023.  Please join me in congratulating Yuwen for this great work. Well done, Yuwen. This is a quite interesting work. 

2. [Puplication] I hope you have had a great summer break so far. I am pleased to announce that Chenyin Gao's paper "Pretest estimation in combining probability and non-probability samples" is now accepted at the Electronic Journal of Statistics. Please join me in congratulating Chenyin for this great work. Really nice work, Chenyin.

1. [Puplication] I am pleased to announce that Jianing Chu (the first author)'s paper "Targeted optimal treatment regime learning using summary statistics" is now scientifically acceptable for Biometrika. Please join me in congratulating Jianing for this great work. Great job, Jianing. 

2. [Puplication] I am pleased to forward this great news that Chenyin (the first author)'s paper "Soft calibration for correcting selection bias under mixed-effects models" is now scientifically acceptable for Biometrika. Please join me in congratulating Chenyin for this great work. Well done, Chenyin. 

1. [Puplication] Here is great news Eunah's paper "Variable Selection for Doubly Robust Causal Inference"  has been accepted at Statistics and its Interface. Please join me in congratulating Eunah on this accomplishment. Well done, Eunah! 

1. [Puplication] Dasom's paper "Doubly robust estimators for generalizing treatment effects on survival outcomes from randomized controlled trials to a target population" is now accepted in the Journal of Causal Inference (JCI)   [arxiv]. This is a follow-up paper to her previous Biometrics paper Improving trial generalizability using observational studies. If you have any questions on generalization, Dasom is an expert! Well done, Dasom. 

2. [Puplication] Here is great news that the paper "Elastic integrative analysis of randomized trial and real-world data for treatment heterogeneity estimation" with Chenyin has been accepted at JRSSB. Please join me in congratulating Chenyin on this accomplishment. Well done, Chenyin. 

1. [Puplication] Siyi Liu's paper “Sensitivity analyses in longitudinal clinical trials via distributional imputation” is accepted by Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Well done! 

2. [Puplication] Lili's paper "Transfer learning of individualized treatment rules from experimental to real-world data" has been accepted in the Journal of Computation and Graphical Statistics. Thanks, Lili, for working on the revision continuously and having meetings during weekends to make this happen. Well done! 

1. [Puplication] Joe's paper "Double Score Matching in Observational Studies with Multi-level Treatments" is accepted in the Journal of Communications in Statistics. Well done, Joe.

1. [Puplication] "Covariance Estimation for Matrix-valued Data" by Yichi Zhang*, Weining Shen and Dehan Kong has been accepted in Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Congratulations, Yichi! 

2. [Puplication] "Outcome-Adjusted Balance Measure for Generalized Propensity Score Model Selection" by Joe Zhao and Shu Yang has been accepted in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.

Congratulations, Joe! 

1. [Resources] The following free course in Coursera (within 30mins) is really useful: https://www.coursera.org/learn/grammar-punctuation?specialization=academic-english. 

2. [Announcement] ACIC is open this year. It seems to have many opportunities for travel support. Data Chellenge is also very interesting (Interested people may team up to tackle it; they have a dashboard for ranking methods). Many fun stuff to check out. (visit the website).

1. [Microsoft intern] Microsoft is hiring an intern working on optimization problem in Python. The job description is below:

https://careers.microsoft.com/i/us/en/job/1241549/Research-Intern-GSL

2. [Puplication] "Nearest neighbor ratio imputation with incomplete multinomial outcome in survey sampling" by C. Gao, K. J. Thompson, S. Yang and J. K. Kim has been accepted in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. The preprint is available at [arxiv].

Congratulations, Chenyin! 

1. [Cool job opportunity: Shared by Lili Wu, Microsoft] We are a diverse, dynamic team of data scientists and software engineers working with world-class Reinforcement Learning researchers to create the next generation algorithms and interactive RL frameworks. 

Please directly apply at: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1236083/Research-Software-Development-Engineer.

2. [Puplication] "Integrative R-learner of heterogeneous treatment effects combining experimental and observational studies" by Lili Wu, Shu Yang has been accepted for presentation at the 1st Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2022, https://www.cclear.cc/2022). 

Congratulations, Lili! Hope you settled well at Microsoft too. 

3. [Puplication] "Multiply robust matching estimators of average and quantile treatment effects" by Shu Yang, Yunshu Zhang has been accepted in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. The preprint is available at [arxiv].

Congratulations, Yunshu!

1. [Alumni information] Lili Wu got a job offer from Microsoft Research in NYC. Congratulations! Now, we will have alumni from Microsoft!

2. [Information for CIMA students] Recently, students are required to prepare a progress report. In order to plan the exams properly, I drafted a letter, which provides some useful information and guidelines for CIMA students. Please check it out at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1USOD2oF7dH-0NG56qKBfS5Cgz-JLpTYbJ2b-XObetOs/edit.

3. [LYX] I would like to share a useful writing tool "lyx". The following folder contains an example article in lyx: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pGse9GoBKSR2gybHxtV0HP1pXkS96htI. Check it out and possibly adopt it if you find it useful.  

4.  [Information for English and grammar] I would like to share some information and resources regarding English and grammar too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UOgHGAp_uoscTnJLztfMKHbGlSDFYd4N1JYrjYQf-aE/edit.

5. [Puplication] "Improving trial generalizability using observational studies" by Dasom Lee, Shu Yang, Lin Dong, Xiaofei Wang, Donglin Zeng, and Jianwen Cai has been accepted in Biometrics 

Congratulations, Dasom!

1. [Puplication] Y. Zhang*, S. Yang, W. Ye, Douglas E. Faries, I. Lipkovich, Z. Kadziola (2021) “Best practices of double score matching for estimating causal effects” is tentatively accepted at Statistics in Medicine.

Congratulations, Yunshu!

2. [Award] Lili Wu won the IBM Student Research Award at the 34th New England Statistics Symposium for her paper “Estimating spatially varying health effects of wildland fire smoke using mobile health data”, jointly with Shu Yang, Brian Reich and Ana Rappold.

Congratulations, Lili!