Jacob M. Chen

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I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University where I am advised by Dr. Ilya Shpitser. My research interests are in developing statistical and machine learning methods for causal inference: the study of deducing causation from observational data. I have worked on a variety of topics such as missing data, using text data as proxies in proximal causal inference, bounding causal effects of unseen interventions, and model selection in reweighted distributions. I am also interested in the applications of causal inference in applied settings such as healthcare, particularly electronic health records (EHR) data, and the social sciences.

I graduated from Williams College in December 2023, receiving a B.A. with Honors in Computer Science and a concentration/minor in French and Francophone studies. I wrote my undergraduate thesis with Professor Rohit Bhattacharya on recovering causal effects under the possibility of confounding bias and self-censoring missing data. My thesis may be accessed here. I received my Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in May, 2026.

Email: jchen459[at]jhu.edu, jacobchen01[at]gmail.com

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