John C. Malone Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Ilya Shpitser has been named a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, which recognizes early-stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.
Shpitser works on causal and semi-parametric inference, missing data, and algorithmic fairness—ubiquitous data complications that may arise in datasets of all types, such as those obtained from social networks, electronic medical records, criminal justice databases, or longitudinal studies.
His five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Robust Causal and Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Structured Systems with Hidden Variables,” which aims to significantly advance understanding of all major tasks in causal systems with hidden variables: identification, estimation, and computationally efficient probabilistic calculations.