Title: Estimating causal effects in the presence of interfering units
Abstract: Classical approaches to causal inference largely rely on the assumption of “lack of interference”, according to which the outcome of an individual does not depend on the...
Title: COEVOLVE: A Joint Point Process Model for Information Diffusion and Network Co-evolution
Abstract: Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users...
Abstract: Unmeasured confounding may undermine the validity of causal inference with observational studies. Sensitivity analysis provides an attractive way to partially circumvent this issue by assessing the...
Abstract: Recent literature has underscored the critical role of treatment effect variation in estimating and understanding causal effects. This approach, however, is in contrast to much of the foundational...
Abstract: Systems as diverse as the world wide web, Internet or the cell are described by highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex topology. Recent studies indicate that these networks are the...
Title:A Machine Learning Perspective on Causal Inference
Abstract:Usually the terms "causal inference" and "machine learning" mix like oil and water. Machine learning models are often black box complicated functions that provide predictions without...
Title:Sparse Estimation and Uncertainty with Application to Subgroup Analysis
Abstract:We introduce a Bayesian method, LASSOplus, that unifies recent contributions in the sparse modeling literatures, while substantially extending upon pre-existing...
Abstract:This talk will consist of a presentation of two proposed randomized control trials (“RCTs”) in the legal setting. The first concerns triage of legal services in the context of intimate partner violence...
Title:A Model for Measuring Emotion in Political Speech with Audio Data
Abstract: Though we generally assume otherwise, humans communicate using more than bags of words alone. Auditory and visual cues convey important information, such as emotion, in...
