Huge congrats to Wenxin Zhang and Yi Li on completing their Ph.D.s! 🎓🎉 Your hard work and contributions have been a tremendous asset. On behalf of everyone at the Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference (CTML), we can't wait to see your next groundbreaking research!

📢 AIPM 2026 Registration & Poster Submission portals now open! Join us at UC Berkeley on October 13-14 as we dive into the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and the next generation of drug development. Early Bird Registration: buff.ly/x6J3cbD Poster Submissions: buff.ly/vCRiDUE

Excited to announce that the Center for Targeted Machine Learning (CTML) will be well-represented at the American Causal Inference Conference 2026! 📍 Our Graduate Student Researchers will be in Salt Lake City from May 11–14.

Join us for the Biostatistics & Epidemiology Research Showcase ⚡️ Come hear our brilliant presenters share their cutting-edge research in fast-paced, engaging sessions this Friday, May 1. Check out their abstracts on our website 👉 ctml.berkeley.edu/5126-biostat...

Congratulations to #CTML Senior Project Data Analyst and #School of Public Health's (SPH) Lecturer Andrew Mertens on being awarded the SPH's extremely competitive 2026 Zak Sabry Mentorship Award. The award was established "to recognize faculty with distinguished records of mentorship."

Happening this Wednesday! 🌟 Don't miss the Stellarus research talks at our CTML Seminar. Hear Yun Hu, Rupali Roy, and Roanne Toretsky share their work on risk stratification, LLM pipelines, and TMLE. 📅 Wednesday, April 22 | 12:00–1:30 PM 📍 Berkeley Way West, Room 5101 Link in bio! 👉

For our last Spring CTML Seminar, we are excited to host Yun Hu (Data Scientist Consultant), Rupali Roy (Data Scientist), and Roanne Toretsky (Data Scientist) from Stellarus to each present their respective talks! This seminar will take place on Wed. April 22, from 12–1:30 PM in BWW, Room 5101.

For our last Spring CTML Seminar, we are excited to host Yun Hu (Data Scientist Consultant), Rupali Roy (Data Scientist), and Roanne Toretsky (Data Scientist) from Stellarus to each present their respective talks! This seminar will take place on Wed. April 22, from 12–1:30 PM in BWW, Room 5101.

CTML GSR's Sylvia Cheng and Wenxin Zhang are featured today at the Frontiers in Computational Health Conference (FiCPH)! Don’t miss them at the FiCPH Poster Session, where they’ll showcase research on innovative statistical and machine learning approaches! 💡📊

Continuing our CTML Seminar Series is CTML GSR Nolan Gunter! He will be discussing "Aging Out of the Blue: Region-Specific Epigenetic Clock Calibration for a Blue Zone with the DNAm SuperLearner." This seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 15 at 12:00 PM in BWW, 5th Fl, Rm 5401.

CTML Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs) are heading to the 2026 European Causal Inference Meeting (EUROCIM) in Oxford, UK! Catch Alissa Gordon, Kaitlyn Lee, Kirsten Landsiedel, and Nick Williams at the poster and presentation sessions on April 15-16. Stop by and support our incredible GSRs! 📊✨🎉

We’re proud to recognize Prof. Laura Balzer, PhD, for serving as a keynote speaker at the International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Observational Databases (IWHOD).

Don't miss out on our Biostatistics and Epidemiology Career Panel! 🌟 Join us for an engaging session with leading experts in biostatistics and epidemiology on Wednesday, April 8th between 12-1:30 pm @ Berkeley Way West, Room 5101. 👉 ctml.berkeley.edu/4826-biostat...

Thank you to all the speakers, panelists, and attendees who joined us for the 4th Annual FIORD Workshop (2026). We look forward to continuing the conversation at FIORD 2027!

CTML t-shirts and long sleeves are available for purchase through our online store until Friday, March 27th! CTML Short sleeve: www.customink.com/g/rgc0-00d1-... CTML Long Sleeve: www.customink.com/g/rgc0-00d1-...

A community-based project in Kenya & Uganda reduced new HIV infections about 70% by bringing testing & prevention directly to communities. 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...

CTML appreciates Vanessa Rodriguez of University College London for joining the JICI Lab Seminar Series to present her talk, "Efficient Estimation and Inference for Generalizing CATEs". If you would like further details, please scan the QR code or visit ctml.berkeley.edu/jici-current....

Calling all UC Berkeley Biostat and Epi graduate students! Got exciting research to share? Join us for the Biostat and Epi Research Showcase—your chance to present to faculty, peers, and special guests! Visit the link in our bio for full details on presentation formats 🔗

Don't miss the next session of the CTML Seminar Series on March 4, where CTML GSR Alissa Gordon will discuss "Average Mixed Derivative: A Nonparametric Framework of Interactivity." This talk will take place from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Support the Future of Public Health Innovation—Donate to CTML for UC Berkeley’s Big Give on March 12th! With over 15 Graduate Student Researchers, CTML is leading discoveries that improve health outcomes locally and globally. Learn more 👉 ctml.berkeley.edu/join-us-big-...

Hear from a leading expert in the field! Join us next Wednesday, February 25th for our CTML Seminar with Andrew Mertens, Ph.D. *Speaker will present remotely.* Check out the abstract on our website linked here👉 tinyurl.com/39sjym53

Next week’s seminar brings another thought-provoking discussion! Join us on February 11 to hear from CTML GSR Mingxun Wang presenting his talk on "Highly Adaptive Principal Component Regression: Fast HAL/HAR via Outcome-Blind Kernel PCA." The seminar will take place at 12PM in BWW, 5th Fl, Rm 5401.

We’re pleased to welcome Toru Shirakawa, CTML GSR and CPH PhD Student, to next week’s CTML Seminar on February 4th! The seminar will take place at 12PM in BWW, 5th Fl, Rm 5401. Click here for the abstract 👉 tinyurl.com/5ab59c85

As we gear up in anticipation for this wonderful workshop, we'd like to remind members of our community to endeavor to participate! CTML Co-Director Mark van der Laan’s talk will be presented at the Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange (PHUSE) Workshop this Thursday from 10:00 AM–11:00 AM (EST).

Connect with the CTML community! Next week’s seminar on Wed, Jan 28, will feature CTML GSR Kaitlyn Lee. The seminar will take place at 12 PM in BWW, 5th Fl, Rm 5401. Please note that this week’s session will be open exclusively to the CTML and UC Berkeley Community.

The CTML Spring Seminar Series kicks off next Wednesday, January 21, with a talk by CTML GSR Andy Kim: “Predicting Loss to Follow-Up Under Resource Constraints: Leveraging Registry-Linked Mobile Health Data in Trauma Care.” Join us at 12:00 PM in Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

We’re excited to kick off our first newsletter for the Spring 2026 semester coming next Wednesday, January 21! Subscribe today to stay in the loop with the CTML community 👉: eepurl.com/iLgQIw

Huge thank you to Dr. Alejandro Schuler for his continued efforts with CTML and for his talk at the Gilead Health Equity Partnership (GHEP) Seminar Series! Stay tuned for more cutting-edge conversations in our ongoing CTML × GHEP Series in the coming weeks and on our website.

Explore everything CTML has planned for our Spring 2026 Seminar Series! The full schedule is available by scanning the QR code on this post or by clicking the link to our website 👉 ctml.berkeley.edu/spring-2026-...

CTML Co-Director Mark van der Laan’s talk will be presented at the Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange (PHUSE) Workshop on Jan 29th, 2026, from 10AM–11AM (EST). The talk will be available online via Zoom. Click the link to register today! 🔗: www.phuse-events.org/attend/front...

Former CTML Postdoc David McCoy will be presenting his and CTML Postdoc Zach Butzin-Dozier's research at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 Conference in Mexico City. If attending the conference, please stop by and check out their poster!

Thank you to Antonio Remiro Azócar for presenting his talk "Data Fusion for Indirect Treatment Comparisons in Health Technology Assessment" as part of the JICI Lab Seminar Series on 12/2/2025. To learn more about Antonio's work, please scan the QR code or visit lnkd.in/ge_qruVY.

CTML Postdoc Marie Charpignon, will be presenting her poster at the AHLI 2025 ML4H Symposium next Monday, December 1st. If you’ll be attending AHLI, we welcome you to stop by Poster #4 to learn more about her work on federated target trial emulation using EHR data spanning multiple health systems!

T-shirt only: We’re reopening Professor Art Reingold’s commemorative t-shirt store for the last time! 🎉 Celebrate his remarkable career and legacy with an exclusive t-shirt designed just for this occasion. 📦Order here: www.customink.com/g/rgc0-00cz-... 📅 The store will close on November 30th.

Interest in AI for social impact? Join us on December 2nd as CTML’s Dr. Laura Balzer presents her latest research during #BerkeleyPublicHealth’s virtual Latest in Public Health Research series. To register for zoom: lnkd.in/gXT-k2Ve For more info: lnkd.in/girU-8Cf

Thank you to Alejandro Schuler, for presenting his talk "Increasing the Efficiency of Randomized Trials with Machine Learning" as part of the JICI Lab Seminar Series on 11/18/2025. To learn more about Alejandro’s talk, please scan the QR code or visit lnkd.in/ge_qruVY.

A big thank you to CTML's Co-Director Mark van der Laan for delivering an engaging talk on "Targeted Learning as a Principled Statistical Approach for Decision Making" at the Bay Area Biotech-Pharma Statistics Workshop on November 7, 2025!

Meet one of our newest team members, Sophie Chen. "Hi everyone! My name is Sophie! I'm an undergrad student pursuing a double degree in Statistics and Economics with a Data Science minor. I'm interested in finance and technology. I'm excited to be part of the CTML community!"

Continuing our CTML Seminar Series is CTML GSR, Yi Li. His talk, "Targeted Deep Architectures: A TMLE-Based Framework for Robust Causal Inference in Neural Networks" will take place on October 29th at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401. You won't want to miss it!

CTML Faculty Mark van der Laan and CTML GSR Sky Qiu will be presenting a full-day short course at the DahShu Data Science Symposium 2025: Innovative Frontiers – AI and Data-Driven Advances in Drug Development, Precision Medicine, and Healthcare. 📅 Saturday, Oct 18 🕘 9AM – 5PM

The next talk in our CTML Seminar Series is coming up on Oct 15! Join us for an engaging discussion led by Michael Rosenblum, Prof. of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This talk will take place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

T-shirt only: We’re reopening Professor Art Reingold’s commemorative t-shirt store for a limited time! 🎉 Celebrate his remarkable career and legacy with an exclusive t-shirt designed just for this occasion. 📦 Link in bio to order! 📅 The store will close by October 25th.

Don't miss the next session of the CTML Seminar Series on October 1st, where Wenxin Zhang will discuss "Efficient Statistical Estimation for Sequential Adaptive Experiments with Implications for Adaptive Designs." This talk will take place from 12-1 PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

📢 Don’t miss this session today at the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section RISW 2025! CTML Faculty Mark van der Laan, will be presenting: “The Causal Roadmap and Adaptive TMLE for ECT-Hybrid Designs” 📅 Sept 25 🕐 1:15PM – 2:30PM(EDT) Be sure to add this to your agenda if you’re attending the conference!

Thank you to our outstanding speakers & panelists for sharing their expertise at this year’s Fall Visit for the Joint Initiative for Causal Inference (JICI)! A special note of appreciation goes to CTML Leads, Maya Petersen and Mark van der Laan, for their leadership in making this event a success.

There’s still time to contribute to Professor Art Reingold’s legacy book! 📝 Please keep testimonials to 100 words or less. 📸 You may share a photo in your commemorative t-shirt, holding his graphic, or with Art. 📬 Submissions due by Sept 30: forms.gle/LY4T126cPjdq...

We are excited to announce CTML faculty, students and staff will lead roundtable discussions at the upcoming RISW (Regulatory Industry Statistic Workshop) at the ASA (American Statistical Association) conference in Rockville, Maryland! 📌 Date: September 25, 2025 📌 Time: 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (EDT)

Mark your calendars for September 17th! The CTML Seminar Series explores “Causal Inference via Electronic Health Record Data.” This exciting talk will be led by CTML's Postdoc Zachary Butzin-Dozier from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

📖 The Legacy of Art Help honor Professor Art Reingold with a legacy book of memories. 📸 Share a photo with Art, in your t-shirt, or with his graphic + 📝 a testimonial by Sept 30 to this link: forms.gle/LY4T126cPjdq... Every submission adds to the story of Art’s impactful career!

The CTML Seminar Series continues on Sept 10! Join us for an exciting talk on "Machine Learning, Causal Queueing, and SiMLQ for Data Driven Simulation." Opher Baron will be presenting joint work with Zhenghang Xu. This talk will take place from 12PM-1PM at BWW, 5th Fl, Rm 5401.