Center for Causal Inference (CCI)
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Fall 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 |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Haoran Zhang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | “Sliced Wasserstein Distributional Balancing” |
| September 17, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Helen Guo Johns Hopkins University | “TBA” |
| September 24, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Edward Kennedy, PhD Carnegie Mellon University | “TBA” |
| October 8, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Brielin Brown, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “TBA” |
| October 15, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Razieh Nabi Abdolyousefi, PhD Emory University | “TBA” |
| October 22, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Siyan Xu, PhD Novartis | “TBA” |
| October 29, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Richard Berk, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “TBA” |
| November 5, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | Guilherme Jardim Duarte, PhD Harvard University | “TBA” |
| November 12, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | William Beckerman University of Pennsylvania | “TBA” |
| November 19, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker John Jackson, ScD Johns Hopkins University | “TBA” |
| December 3, 2026 Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd., Room 5E-031 (5th Floor) or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Jessica Young, PhD Harvard University | “TBA” |
Past Events
Spring 2026 Seminars
| 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 | “Transporting Policy Effects Across Implementations via a Generalized Exposure Mapping” |
| April 23, 2026 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 3600 Civic Center Blvd, Room 03-031 East (3rd Floor) or Zoom | Siyu Heng, PhD New York University | “Propensity Score Propagation: A General Framework for Design-Based Inference with Unknown Propensity Scores” |
| 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 | “Non-parametric Causal Inference in Dynamic Thresholding Designs” |
Fall 2025 Seminars
| Date | speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 4, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Kwonsang Lee, PhD Seoul National University | “Overlap Matters: Quantifying and Addressing Weak Overlap in Causal Inference” |
| September 11, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Abhinandan Dalal University of Pennsylvania | “Partial Identification of Causal Effects for Endogenous Continuous Treatments” |
| September 18, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Andrea Rotnitzky, PhD | “Towards a Unified Theory for Semiparametric Data Fusion Using Individual-Level Data” |
| September 25, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | William Beckerman University of Pennsylvania | “Enhancing global null testing in observational studies” |
| October 2, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Alexander Levis, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “Intervention effects based on potential benefit” |
| October 16, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Fei Fang, PhD Yale University | “Design-Based Weighted Regression Estimators for Average and Conditional Spillover Effects” |
| October 23, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speake Caleb Miles, PhD Columbia University | “Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via separable effects” |
| October 30, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Yichi Zhang, PhD Indiana University Bloomington | “Semiparametric Localized Principal Stratification Analysis with Continuous Strata” |
| November 6, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Ted Westling, PhD University of Massachusetts | “Robust and Adaptive Causal Null Hypothesis Tests Under Model Uncertainty” |
| November 13, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Manit Paul University of Pennsylvania | “The blessing of refitting in regression-based conditional independence testing procedure” |
| November 20, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Jack Wolf, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “Estimating Optimal Stochastic Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions” |
| December 4, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Youjin Lee, PhD Brown University | “Causal Inference with Positive Unlabeled Treatments” |
Spring 2025 Seminars
| Date | speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 418 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Mats J. Stensrud, MD, Dr Philos École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | “Estimands that are insensitive to interference, with applications to vaccine studies” |
| January 16, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Zhonghua Liu, PhD Columbia University | “Deciphering proteins in Alzheimer’s disease: A new Mendelian randomization method integrated with AlphaFold3 for 3D structure prediction” |
| January 30, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 418 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Stijn Vansteelandt, PhD Ghent University | “Assumption-Lean (Causal) Modeling” |
| February 6, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Rebecca Farina Carnegie Mellon University | “Doubly Robust and Efficient Calibration of Prediction Sets for Censored Time-to-Event Outcomes” |
| February 13, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Richard Berk, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “Forecasting Extreme High Temperatures in Siberia Using Supervised Learning and Conformal Prediction Regions” |
| February 20, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 1412 BRB II/III or Zoom | Manit Paul University of Pennsylvania | “Doubly robust conformal prediction for missing data” |
| February 27, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Elizabeth L. Ogburn, PhD Johns Hopkins University | “When Doubly Robust Estimators Collapse to a Single Linear Outcome Model” |
| March 6, 2025 Time: 10:00AM-11:00AM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Ruoyu Wang, PhD Harvard University | “Extreme-based Causal Effect Learning with Endogenous Exposures and a Light-tailed Error” |
| March 20, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 1412 BRB II/III or Zoom | Jacob Dorn, PhD University of Pennsylvania | “How Much Weak Overlap Can Doubly Robust T-Statistics Handle?” |
| March 27, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Samrachana Adhikari, PhD New York University | “Methodological Challenges in the Evaluation of Local Policy Effects on Overdose Outcomes” |
| April 17, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701Blockley Hall or Zoom | Bingkai Wang, PhD University of Michigan | “How to achieve model-robust inference in stepped wedge trials with model-based methods?” |
| May 1, 2025 Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall or Zoom | Larry Han, PhD Northeastern University | “Targeted Data Fusion for Causal Survival Analysis Under Distribution Shift” |
2026 Penn Causal Inference Summer Institute
This 5-day workshop (June 1-5, 2026) 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.
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.