Jing Li

jing_li@hsph.harvard.edu

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the CAUSALab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, advised by Prof. Miguel Hernán.

My research lies at the intersection of causal inference and computer science, with a focus on advancing classical causal inference methods by integrating modern machine learning techniques. To bridge the gap between causal inference methodology and practical application, I also develop scientific computing tools that enable scalable and reproducible implementation of causal inference methods. In particular, I have been involved in open-source software development, leading and contributing to packages including pygformula, gformula, and gformulaICE, which support causal inference analyses for longitudinal observational data.

Previously, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Computer Science at Peking University, where I was advised by Prof. Yizhou Wang. Prior to my Ph.D., I obtained my bachelor's degree in Statistics from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Wuhan University.

Focus Areas

Research Interests

Causal Inference Machine Learning Statistical Learning Reinforcement Learning Artificial Intelligence
Selected Works

Publications

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2024
Deep learning methods for the noniterative conditional expectation g-formula for causal inference from complex observational data
Sophia M Rein*, Jing Li*, Miguel A. Hernán, Andrew L. Beam
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2024
2023
Learning domain-agnostic representation for disease diagnosis
Churan Wang, Jing Li, Xinwei Sun, Fandong Zhang, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
2021
Bilateral asymmetry guided counterfactual generating network for mammogram classification
Churan Wang*, Jing Li*, Fandong Zhang, Xinwei Sun, Hao Dong, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021
2021
Causal hidden markov model for time series disease forecasting
Jing Li, Botong Wu, Xinwei Sun, Yizhou Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
2021
Forecasting irreversible disease via progression learning
Botong Wu, Sijie Ren, Jing Li, Xinwei Sun, Shi-Ming Li, Yizhou Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
2020
Pose-assisted multi-camera collaboration for active object tracking
Jing Li*, Jing Xu*, Fangwei Zhong*, Xiangyu Kong, Yu Qiao, Yizhou Wang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Open Source

Software

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📂 pygformula Project Lead Developer Maintainer

The pygformula implements the parametric g-formula in Python. The parametric g-formula (Robins, 1986) uses longitudinal data with time-varying treatments and confounders to estimate the risk or mean of an outcome under hypothetical treatment strategies specified by the user.

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📂 gformula Contributor

The gfoRmula package implements the parametric g-formula in R. The parametric g-formula (Robins, 1986) uses longitudinal data with time-varying treatments and confounders to estimate the risk or mean of an outcome under hypothetical treatment strategies specified by the user.

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📂 gformulaICE Maintainer

The gformulaICE package implements parametric iterative conditional expectation (ICE) estimators of the plug-in g-formula in R.

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Academic Services

Service

Reviewer

  • European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) 2025
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2022, 2026
  • Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, 2021, 2022
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022
  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020