Center for Causal Inference (CCI)
Advancing causal inference methods, fostering collaborative research, and providing essential training to drive innovation across diverse fields.
Spring 2026 Seminars
All seminars are held in a hybrid format on Thursdays. To join the mailing list for seminar updates and to receive the Zoom link, please reach out to
| Date | speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 22, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: Virtual only | Tat-Thang Vo, PharmD, PhD University Paris XII, France | “Causal optimal transport of treatment effects to a target population with limited individual-level data” |
| January 29, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: Virtual only | Geondo Park Seoul National University | “Quantifying Practical Overlap in Causal Inference via KL Projections” |
| February 5, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | Kai Cooper University of Pennsylvania | “Monitoring Racial Bias in Police Traffic Enforcement with Noisy Proxies of Driver Behavior” |
| February 12, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, 05-031 East (5th Floor) or Zoom | Dingke Tang, PhD University of Ottawa | “A Robust Framework for Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization under Population Heterogeneity” |
| February 19, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 05-031 East (5th Floor) or Zoom | Mei Dong University of Toronto | “Marginal Causal Effect Estimation with Continuous Instrumental Variables” |
| February 26, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Shu Yang, PhD North Carolina State University | “Estimating Long-Term Treatment Effects by Integrating Randomized Trials and Real-World Data under Unmeasured Confounding, Study Heterogeneity, and Informative Dropout” |
| March 5, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | Yi Zhang, PhD Rutgers University | “Enhanced Marginal Sensitivity Model and Bounds” |
| March 26, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Nima Hejazi, PhD Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | “Evaluating the causal effects of continuous exposures under network interference with induced modified treatment policies” |
| April 2, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | Qishuo Yin Princeton University | “Factor Informed Double Deep Learning For Average Treatment Effect Estimation” |
| April 9, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 05-031 East (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Layla Parast, PhD University of Texas at Austin | “Resilience measures for the surrogate paradox” |
| April 16, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 05-031 East (5th Floor) or Zoom | Gary Hettinger, PhD New York University | “TBA” |
| April 23, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | TBA | “TBA” |
| April 30, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 05-031 East (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Stefan Wager, PhD Stanford University | “TBA” |
Past Events
2025 Penn Causal Inference Summer Institute
This 4-day workshop (May 27-30, 2025) covers foundational concepts, theory, and methods for causal inference from observational data and imperfect randomized experiments. Attend in person at the University of Pennsylvania or online, with full or single-day options, and gain skills to critically engage with modern causal inference methods.