News
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March 02, 2026
Peng Ding’s joint paper with Pengfei Tian and Fan Yang titled “Stratified Permutational Berry-Esseen Bounds and Their Applications to Statistics”, was accepted by Bernoulli.
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February 20, 2026
Sam Pimentel is hiring a postdoc to work on causal inference methodology for impacts of mental health. Full details and application instructions here.
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February 18, 2026
Zhexiao Lin’s joint paper with Peter Bickel and Peng Ding, “Introducing the b-value: combining unbiased and biased estimators from a sensitivity analysis perspective”, is available on ArXiv.
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February 03, 2026
Peng Ding’s joint paper with Yiqing Xu from Stanford and Anqi Zhao from Duke, “Factorial difference-in-differences”, was accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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January 21, 2026
Weihan Zhang’s joint paper with Zijun Gao from USC Marshall, “Estimation and Inference for Causal Explainability”, is available on ArXiv, and received acceptance ratings for the Fifth Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CleaR).
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January 20, 2026
Sam Pimentel received a three-year grant from the Huo Family Foundation to study the impact of social media use on adolescent mental health.
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December 05, 2025
Avi Feller, David Bruns-Smith, and Zhongming Xie’s paper, “Ridge Boosting is Both Efficient and Robust” was featured as a Spotlight Paper at NeurIPS.
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October 28, 2025
Zhexiao Lin’s joint paper with Peng Ding, “Unifying regression-based and design-based causal inference in time-series experiments”, is available on ArXiv.
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September 03, 2025
Xinyi Wang’s joint paper with Shuangning Li from Chicago Booth, “Covariate Adjustment Cannot Hurt: Treatment Effect Estimation under Interference with Low-Order Outcome Interactions”, is available on ArXiv.
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September 01, 2025
Sam Pimentel was promoted to Associate Professor!
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September 01, 2025
David Bruns-Smith gave a keynote presentation on joint work with Avi Feller, Oliver Dukes, and Betsy Ogburn on “Augmented Balancing Weights as Linear Regression” (as a Discussion Paper) at the Royal Statistical Society Meeting in Edinburgh.
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August 02, 2025
Avi Feller and collaborators received the 2025 American Statistical Association Outstanding Statistical Application Award for For the papers, “US Abortion Bans and Fertility” and “US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality” in the Journal of the American Medical Association
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February 06, 2025
Andy and Sam’s paper on sensitivity analysis for causal decompositions is published in Statistics in Medicine!
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January 06, 2025
Avi Feller was awarded the 2025 Mid-Career Award by the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Congratulations Avi!
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January 06, 2025
Andy and Sam’s paper on sensitivity analysis for causal decompositions received student paper awards for the 2025 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics and the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings.
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October 11, 2024
We have launched our group website!