March 7th, Friday
8:15 AM
Coffee, pastry, and fruits will be served
8:30 - 8:40 AM
Opening remarks
8:40 - 10:10 AM
Session I - Chair: Hongjian Zhu, AbbVie
  • Sofia Villar, University of Cambridge
    Recent Advances for the Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Response-Adaptive Designs: Are We There Yet?
  • Feifang Hu, George Washington University
    Adaptive Designs and GenAI: A Great Match?
  • Boxin Tang, Simon Fraser University
    Fractional Factorial Designs Under the Baseline Parametrization
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Session II - Chair: Xinwei Ma, UC San Diego
  • Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
    Veridical Data Science Towards Modern Experimental Design in the Age of AI
  • Luke Keele, University of Pennsylvania
    Flexibly Estimating and Interpreting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Laparoscopic Surgery for Cholecystitis Patients
11:30 - 1:00 PM
Lunch and Photo Session, Alumni House
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Session III - Chair: Lexin Li, UC Berkeley
  • Micheal Kosorok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Design and Analysis of SMARTs to Incorporate Patient Preference into Dynamic Treatment Regimes
  • Annie Qu, University of California Irvine
    Stage-Aware Learning for Dynamic Treatments
2:20 - 3:10 PM
Panel Discussion - Moderator: Waverly Wei, University of Southern California
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Session IV - Chair: Sofia Villar, Cambridge University
  • Mark van der Laan, UC Berkeley
    Learning Oracle Designs with Targeted Adaptive Designs and Statistical Inference with TMLE
  • Anastasia Ivanova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Applications of AI in Drug Development
4:30 - 5:30 PM

Poster Session

5:30 - 7:30 PM
Dinner Banquet, Great China
March 8th, Saturday
8:15 AM
Coffee, pastry, and fruits will be served
8:40 - 10:10 AM
Session V - Chair: Xiudi Li, UC Berkeley
  • Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
    Causal Inference Through Mendelian Randomization
  • Tianxi Cai, Harvard University
    Improving Algorithm Generalizability and Transportability: Lesson Learned from Multi-institutional EHR Research
  • Hongtu Zhu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Spatially Randomized Designs Can Enhance Policy Evaluation
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Session VI - Chair: Feifang Hu, George Washington University
  • Yuan Ji, University of Chicago
    A Bayesian Estimator of Sample Size
  • Ying Yuan, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Digital Controls: An Efficient, Robust, and Privacy-Preserving Bayesian Tool for Adaptive Information Borrowing from External Data
  • Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard University
    Harmonized Estimation of Subgroup-Specific Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials: The Use of External Control Data
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch, Alumni House
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Session VII - Chair: Peng Ding, UC Berkeley
  • Lu Tian, Stanford University
    Dynamic Decision Making With Individualized Variable Selection
  • Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University
    New Experimental Designs with Generative AI — from Texts to Networks, to Interacting Agents
  • Waverly Wei, University of Southern California
    Covariate Adjusted Response Adaptive Design with Delayed Outcomes
3:00 PM
Closing Remarks and Poster Award