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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 and solving for the third,
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.
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.
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/
Check out features on our recent Long COVID studies!
Dr. Yong Chen’s $8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an AI-driven framework that could transform how we detect and diagnose mental health conditions was recently featured by Penn LDI and Politico.
Check out this article by Penn Medicine News that highlights our study recently published in Lancet eClinicalMedicine on COVID vaccination! This study showed that BNT162b2 vaccination significantly reduced the risk of long COVID in kids and teens during both Delta and Omicron waves—mainly by preventing infection in the first place.
Four recent PennCIL studies, featured in a recent Penn Medicine News release, are gaining national attention for shedding light on the long-term health effects of COVID-19 in children—and the protective role of vaccination.
📚 Read more about the science and its impact:
Check out this article by Healio that highlights our study recently published in JAMA Network Open!
Check out this article by TechTarget that highlights our study recently published in Cell Patterns!
Our manuscript published in Cell Patterns this November on post-acute COVID-19 healthcare demands was featured by Penn Medicine News! Check out the news release here.
Former PhD student, Dr. Rui Duan, was recently featured in a Penn Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics Alumni spotlight. Check it out here!
Dr. Yong Chen will be one of three speakers presenting a short course entitled, “AI/ML applications through the lenses of statisticians from regulatory agency, industry, and academia,” at the Duke Industry Statistics Symposium which will take place April 9-11,
Recent PhD graduate Huan He has been appointed Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Auburn University. Congratulations Huan!
Recent PhD graduate Qiong Wu has been appointed Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Congratulations Qiong!
Recent PhD graduate Jessie Tong has been appointed Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations Jessie!
PhD student Dazheng Zhang presented a lightning talk during the OHDSI 2024 Global Symposium. See his talk here!
Recent PhD graduate Jessie Tong presented a lightning talk during the OHDSI 2024 Global Symposium. See her talk here!
Our new Annals of Internal Medicine paper, Efficacy of BNT162b2 Bivalent Vaccine Against Delta and Omicron Variants in Pediatrics, is online on January 9, 2024! Senior authors are Yong Chen, Christopher B.
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,
🎉 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.
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!
Congratulate postdoc fellow Dr. Qiong Wu for winning a poster award at ICSA 2023!
PhD student Ken Locke defended his thesis on “Preserving patient privacy in modeling multi-category outcomes across real-world data sources”. Congratulations on a successful thesis defense!
Postdoc fellow Dr. Naimin Jing is joining Merck as a Senior Scientist in Jan 2023. Congratulations on the next chapter of your career!
We are excited to launch this 4-year study, co-led by Peter Merkel at Penn and Jiang Bian at the University of Florida, to take real-world data based evidence generation to its next level of informing clinical practice and decision-making.
We are recruiting postdocs! For more information, please see the link https://forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-jobs/entry/7815/
PhD candidate Mac Edmondson is joining Merck as a Senior Scientist in 2021. Congratulations on the next chapter of your career!
PhD candidate Arielle Marks-Anglin is joining Mathematica as a Human Service Researcher in 2021. Best wishes for the next chapter of your career!
Welcome postdoc research fellow Dr. Xiaokang Liu to our PennCIL group! Yuchen got her PhD from the Department of Statistics at University of Connecticut. Find out more about her research here.
Welcome postdoc research fellow Dr. Yuchen Yang to our PennCIL group! Yuchen got her PhD from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Find out more about her research here.
PhD student Rui Duan will defend her thesis, entitled “EHR Data + X: Expanding the Reach of EHR Through Data Integration” via BlueJeans, on April 8th at 2 pm.
PhD student Rui Duan is joining Harvard University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in August 2020. Congratulations!!!
Yong Chen, Ph.D. has been named fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States.
Please check out the DBEI news.
Check out our recently published Nature Review Genetics paper on “Electronic health records and polygenic risk scores for predicting disease risk” coauthored by Ruowang Li, Yong Chen,
Postdoc Fellow Dr. Ray Bai, advised by Dr. Yong Chen and Dr. Mary Boland, is joining The University of South Carolina as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Statistics in August 2020.
Congratulate Arielle Marks-Anglin, a third-year PhD student advised by Dr. Yong Chen, for winning the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) Student Paper Travel Award for her work on quantifying evidence of selective publishing in network meta-analysis!
Check out our recent published paper on “An augmented estimation procedure for EHR-based association studies accounting for differential misclassification”, coauthored by Jiayi Tong, Jing Huang, Jessica Chubak, Xuan Wang,
Dr. Jing Huang and Dr. Yong Chen are joining the Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) program for the Speed Mentoring Breakfast event on Monday Morning at 2019 JSM.
Postdoc fellow Dr. Lifang He is joining Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science starting on November 1st, 2019. Congratulations!!!
Members in PennCIL are attending 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Denver, Colorado, which is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America.
Rui Duan will give a presentation on “A Fast Score Test for Generalized Mixture Models”;
Check out our recent published paper on “Inherited Thrombophilia and the Risk of Arterial Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis“, coauthored by Thita Chiasakul, Elizabeth De Jesus,
Check out our recent published paper on “A Meta-Analysis of the Associations Between the Nurse Work Environment in Hospitals and 4 Sets of Outcomes” coauthored by Eileen Lake,
Postdoc fellow Dr. Yulun Liu is joining UT Southwestern Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Congratulations!!!
Postdoc fellow Dr. Jing Huang is joining University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Congratulations!!!
Congratulate Rui Duan, a third-year PhD student advised by Dr. Yong Chen, for winning Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award for her work “A fast score test for generalized mixture models”! Congratulations!!!
The paper “PIE: a prior knowledge guided integrated likelihood estimation method for bias reduction in association studies using electronic health records data” is highlighted as one of the top 5 out of 741 papers published in 2017 on the topic clinical research informatics.
Dr. Yong Chen was elected as a member of International Statistical Institute.
Congratulate postdoc fellow Dr.