Archived Events

4/2/25 Seminar: "Improving Finite Sample Performance in Auto-Debiased Causal Neural Networks with RieszDragon"

Our CTML Seminar Series continues on April 2nd with an exciting talk led by Nolan Gunter on "Improving Finite Sample Performance in Auto-Debiased Causal Neural Networks with RieszDragon." Don't miss this talk taking place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

The Riesz representation theorem allows us to express any target parameter as an inner product of a conditional mean and the Riesz representer, sparking new causal inference work to directly estimate the Riesz...

3/19/25: Biostatistics Career Panel Spring 2025

Join us for our Spring Biostatistics Career Panel! We’re thrilled to bring you a career panel featuring leading figures in biostatistics. Dive into their career stories, explore their research, and their unique perspectives on the field. This is your chance to engage in lively discussions and discover the many exciting paths within biostatistics!

Date: Wednesday, March 19th

Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm (This event will begin at 12pm sharp)

Location: Berkeley Way West, 5th Fl, Rm 5401

3/12/25 Seminar: "Surrogate Modeling for Infectious Disease Dynamics Using Machine Learning"

Don't miss the next session of the CTML Seminar Series on March 12th, where Karissa Huang and Philip Lee will discuss "Surrogate Modeling for Infectious Disease Dynamics Using Machine Learning." This talk will take place from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Model complexity can often make parameter estimation challenging and inefficient in epidemiological models. In this work we propose a framework for using surrogate models to estimate the likelihood for compartmental models. The surrogate modeling approach reduces the computational costs of analyzing...

3/5/25 Seminar: "The Object Bagplot for Non-Euclidean Spaces: A Visualization and Outlier Detection Tool for Hyperbolic Data"

The CTML Seminar Series continues on March 5th! Join us for an exciting talk on "The Object Bagplot for Non-Euclidean Spaces: A Visualization and Outlier Detection Tool for Hyperbolic Data" led by CTML GSR Andy Kim. This talk will take place from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Exploratory data analysis in non-Euclidean spaces is an underdeveloped field, despite their growing importance in modern machine learning applications. In particular, hyperbolic space is a useful...

2/26/25 Seminar: "RieszBoost: Gradient Boosting for Riesz Regression”

Mark your calendars for February 26th! The CTML Seminar Series explores “RieszBoost: Gradient Boosting for Riesz Regression.” This exciting talk will be led by Kaitlyn Lee from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Answering causal questions often involves estimating linear functionals of conditional expectations, such as the average treatment effect or the effect of a longitudinal modified treatment policy. By the Riesz representation theorem, these functionals can be expressed as...

2/19/25 Seminar Series: "Improving Efficiency in Transporting Average Treatment Effects"

The next talk in our CTML Seminar Series is coming up on February 19th! Join us for an engaging discussion led by Kara Rudolph, Assoc. Prof. of Epidemiology on "Improving Efficiency in Transporting Average Treatment Effects." This talk will take place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

We develop flexible, semiparametric estimators of the average treatment effect (ATE) transported to a new population (``target population'') that...

9/25/24: Biostatistics Career Panel Fall 2024

Join us for a Biostatistics Career Panel sponsored by CTML! We’re thrilled to bring you a career panel featuring leading figures in biostatistics. Dive into their career stories, explore their research, and their unique perspectives on the field. This is your chance to engage in lively discussions and discover the many exciting paths within biostatistics!

Date: Wednesday, September 25
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, Rm 5401

2/12/25 Seminar Series: "Bridging the Evidence Gap: Leveraging Historical Control Data to Address Underrepresentation in Health Research"

Our CTML Seminar Series continues on February 12th with an exciting talk led by Alissa Gordon on "Bridging the Evidence Gap: Leveraging Historical Control Data to Address Underrepresentation in Health Research." Don't miss this talk taking place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Many subpopulations cannot fully benefit from advances in health research due to lack of representation in trials, partly due to low RCT trial feasibility. To bridge this gap, we...

2/5/25 Seminar Series: "Hierarchical Approximation of Universal Least Favorable Paths for Improved Efficiency"

Join us on February 5th to continue our CTML Seminar Series! Kaiwen Hou will give his talk on "Hierarchical Approximation of Universal Least Favorable Paths for Improved Efficiency." This talk will take place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

TMLE achieves efficiency by constructing paths in the statistical model space that solve the efficient score equation with minimal updates, where the universal least favorable path (UFLP) theoretically enables single-step convergence by exactly matching the canonical gradient at every point along...

1/29/25 Seminar Series: "Prognostic Score Adjustment for Marginal Effect Estimation with GLMs"

Join us on January 29th to kick off our Spring 2025 CTML Seminar Series! Emilie Højbjerre-Frandsen will start our series with her talk "Prognostic Score Adjustment for Marginal Effect Estimation with GLMs." This talk will take place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

The study proposes a new method to improve the efficiency of randomized clinical trials by using historical data to train a prognostic model and incorporating the resulting scores as covariates in the analysis of non-continuous outcomes using generalized linear models (GLMs). This...