Center for Causal Inference (CCI)
Advancing causal inference methods, fostering collaborative research, and providing essential training to drive innovation across diverse fields.
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.
Spring 2025 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 Catherine Vallejo.
| Date | speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 418 Blockley Hall | Mats J. Stensrud École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | “Estimands that are insensitive to interference, with applications to vaccine studies” |
| January 23, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Zhonghua Liu Columbia University | “Deciphering proteins in Alzheimer’s disease: A new Mendelian randomization method integrated with AlphaFold3 for 3D structure prediction” |
| January 30, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Stijin Vansteelandt Ghent University | “Assumption-Lean (Causal) Modeling” |
| February 6, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Rebecca Farina Carnegie Mellon University | “Doubly Robust and Efficient Calibration of Prediction Sets for Censored Time-to-Event Outcomes” |
| February 13, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Richard Berk University of Pennsylvania | “Forecasting Extreme High Temperatures in Siberia Using Supervised Learning and Conformal Prediction Regions” |
| February 20, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 1412 BRB II/IIIl | Manit Paul University of Pennsylvania | “Doubly robust conformal prediction for missing data” |
| February 27, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Elizabeth Ogburn Johns Hopkins University | “When doubly robust estimators collapse to a single linear outcome model” |
| March 6, 2025 Time: 10AM-11AM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Ruoyu Wang Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Wang Miao Peking University | “Extreme-based Causal Effect Learning with Endogenous Exposures and a Light-tailed Error” |
| March 20, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 1412 BRB II/III | Jacob Dorn University of Pennsylvania | “How Much Weak Overlap Can Doubly Robust T-Statistics Handle?” |
| March 27, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Samrachana Adhikari NYU Langone | “Methodological Challenges in the Evaluation of Local Policy Effects on Overdose Outcomes” |
| April 17, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Bingkai Wang University of Michigan | “How to achieve model-robust inference in stepped wedge trials with model-based methods?” |
| May 1, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Larry Han Northeastern University | “Targeted Data Fusion for Causal Survival Analysis Under Distribution Shift” |
Online Course
Causal Inference MOOC: A Crash Course in Causality.
Instructed by Jason A. Roy, PhD.