Chixiang Chen 

Statistical Information Integration and causal Learning for multiVariate hEalthcaRe data

SILVER Lab

[Lab News]

Year 2025

• Our paper "Estimate Time-Varying Exposure Effects via Ensemble Learning-based Marginal Structural Model with Application to Adolescent Cognitive Development Study" has been accepted by SMMR. Congratulations, Zhiwei [2025/08]!

• Welcome Jiyuan Jiao, a PHD student from UMSOM, to join our lab [2025/08]!

• Our paper "The Effect of Alcohol intake on Brain White Matter Microstructural Integrity: A New Causal Inference Framework for Incomplete Phenomic Data" has been accepted by The Journal of the American Statistical Association [2025/07]!

• Welcome Dr. Yilin Zhang (Postdoc Researcher, co-advised with Dr. Xu Shi, UMich) to join our lab [2025/07]!

• Welcome Sophie Huang (co-advised with Dr. Chinchilli, Penn State) to join our lab [2025/07]!

• Daxuan Deng has accepted a postdoc fellow position from JHU. Congratulations, Daxuan [2025/06]!

• Dr. Chen has been promoted to Associate Professor (effective on July 1) [2025/05]!

• Our paper "Exploring causal effects of hormone- and radio-treatments in an observational study of breast cancer using copula-based semi-competing risks models" has been accepted by Statistics in Medicine . Congratulations, Tonghui [2025/05]!

• Dr. Tong Wen has received the travel award for the RCCN workshop "AI and Health Behaviors for Healthy Aging". Congratulations, Tong [2025/04]!

• Welcome Dr. Kyeongwon Lee (Postdoc Researcher, co-advised with Dr. Lizhen Lin) to join our lab [2025/02]!

• Our paper "Improving Estimation Efficiency for Survival Data Analysis by Integrating a Coarsened Time-to-Event Outcome from an External Study" has been accepted by Biometrics. Congratulations, Daxuan [2025/01]!

Year 2024

• Welcome Dr. Tong Wen (Postdoc Researcher, co-advised with Dr. Michelle Shardell) and Jingwen Hu (Research Analyst, co-advised with Dr. Jason Falvey) to join our lab![2024/12]

• Zhiwei Zhao has received the offer from GOOGLE. Congratulations, Zhiwei! [2024/11]

• Jeffery Zhao has received a summer internship with  Abbvie. Congratulations, Jeffery! [2024/11]

• Our paper "Advancing Information Integration through Empirical Likelihood: Selective Reviews and a New Idea" has been accepted as a chapter in Springer Book on Big Data Analysis, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics! [2024/11]

• Our paper "Gerontologic Biostatistics and Data Science: Aging Research in the Era of Big Data" has been accepted by The Journals of Gerontology: Series A [2024/10].

• Welcome Parth Rastogi, a PhD student from UMD, to join our lab! [2024/09]

• Dr. Chen has received a 5-year R01 award as the principal investigator from NIA/NIH! [2024/08]

• Our paper "Integrating external summary information in the presence of prior probability shift: an application to assessing essential hypertension" has been accepted by Biometrics! [2024/08]

• Our paper "Integrative data analysis where partial covariates have complex non-linear effects by using summary information from a real-world data" has been accepted by The American Statistician. Congratulations, Jia! [2024/07]

• Our paper "Multi-view k-Nearest Neighbor Graph Contrastive Learning on Multi-modal Biomedical Data" has been accepted by AIME. Congratulations, Yilin! [2024/07]

• Dr. Chen has been selected to receive the ATIP grant from Johns Hopkins ICTR! [2024/06]

• Dr. Chen is selected to receive Honorable Mention Award at ICSA 2024 China conference! [2024/06]

• Dr. Chen is selected to receive the 2024 Association for Clinical and Translational Statisticians (ACTStat) Early Career Award! [2024/05]

• Dr. Chen has been awarded with a Pepper Pilot Grant from UM-OAIC! [2024/04]

• Our paper "Robust integration of secondary outcomes information into primary outcome analysis in the presence of missing data" has been accepted by Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Congratulations, Daxuan Deng! [2024/04]

• Welcome Haoyu Ren, a PhD student from UMBC, to join our lab! [2024/03]

• Our paper "Analyzing risk factors for post‐acute recovery in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia: A new semi‐parametric model for large‐scale medicare claims" has been published on Statistics in Medicine! Congratulations to Biyi and Haoyu! [2024/01]

Year 2023

• Dr.Chen has been awarded with "RCCN Travel Awards for Early Career Investigators" from RCCN, congratulations! [2023/12]

• Dr.Chen's new paper "An efficient data integration scheme for synthesizing information from multiple secondary datasets for the parameter inference of the main analysis" has been published on Biometrics! [2023/12]

• Dr.Chen has been awarded with "Flexible, High Value Early Career Faculty Award" from National OAIC CC, congratulations! [2023/11]