Jieru Shi

PhD (Biostat), 2023

University of Michigan
Website
herashi.github.io
Email
herashiobfuscate@umich[punto]edu

Alumnus Since

2023

Current Position

Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London

First position after graduation

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS), University of Cambridge, UK

Thesis/Project

Statistical Methods for Assessing Time-varying Causal Effects; Novel Estimands and Inference

Education:

2020-2023, Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2018-2020, M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Awards:

  • 2023, Travel Award for the 14th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), Scottsdale, AZ, 2023

  • 2022, Winner, Junior Researcher Travel Grant, American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC), Berkeley, CA

Papers (partial)

1. Incorporating Auxiliary Variables to Improve the Efficiency of Time-Varying Treatment Effect Estimation. Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey (2025) ► Journal of American Statistical Association [paper link] [doi]

2. Estimating Time-Varying Direct and Indirect Causal Excursion Effects with Longitudinal Binary Outcomes. Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey (submitted) ► [paper link]

3. Assessing Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation in the Presence of Cluster-Level Treatment Effect Heterogeneity and Interference. Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey (2022) ► Biometrika [paper link] [code] [doi]