Dr. Yong Chen Presents Causal AI framework for Drug Development at the ASA STATBOLIC 2026 conference
Dr. Yong Chen presented the XYZ framework, a simple “three variable” way to think about causal AI in drug development where X is the treatment, Y is the outcome, and Z is the population. By holding any two pieces fixed […]
PennCIL Lab PhD candidates Bingyu Zhang and Yiwen Lu were recently interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian about a RECOVER EHR study published in Journal of Infection linking body mass index to Long COVID symptoms in youth. This research highlights that […]
Our lab’s recent work on telemedicine is attracting significant attention and has been covered by major outlets, including U.S. News & World Report, HealthDay and Penn Medicine News. Led by PhD candidate Bingyu Zhang and Dr. Yong Chen, our lab’s […]
Dr. Yong Chen shared insights on AI-powered rare disease diagnostics at the International Genomic Medicine Symposium. (Nov 2025)
Dr. Yong Chen is named an MPI on a new $27.2 million NIH initiative to unify Alzheimer’s research data across 10 leading institutions. (Oct 2025) https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/27-2-million-national-effort-launches-to-unify-alzheimers-research-data/
Yong Chen, PhD, FASA, FAMIA, Professor of Biostatistics, and the Founding Director of the Computing, Inference, and Learning Lab at the University of Pennsylvania (PENNCIL) and the Center for Health Analytics and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE) will be inducted, along […]
🎉 Congratulations to PhD student Jessie Tong on winning the Titan Award for methodological research at 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium! Also congratulations to all the other 2023 OHDSI award winners!
UPenn AMCS graduate student Bingyu Zhang shared her work on quantifying racial/ethnic differences in pediatric long COVID during the lightning talk session at 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium. Link to the video of the talk: https://youtu.be/VMjslT0k_HM?t=1260.
UPenn AMCS graduate student Lu Li shared her work on synthesizing evidence for rare events: a novel zero-inflated bivariate model to integrate studies with double-zero outcomes during the lightning talk session at 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium. Link to the video […]
Postdoc fellow Xiaokang Liu is joining Department of Statistics at University of Missouri as an Assistant Professor in August 2023. We wish Xiaokang the best in the next chapter of her career!