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Ilya Shpitser is a John C. Malone Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), within the Whiting School of Engineering. He is also a member of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Data Science and AI Institute. His research focuses on causal inference, missing data, graphical models, algorithmic fairness, and semi-parametric inference, with applications in healthcare, public health, and criminal justice.
Shpitser holds a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from UC Berkeley (1999), and MS (2004) and PhD (2008) in Computer Science from UCLA. Postdoctoral work included Harvard University and the University of Southampton. He has received awards such as the Causality in Statistics Education Award (2017) and the NSF CAREER Award (2020). His work addresses disparities in algorithmic bias, causal pathway analysis, and high-dimensional observational data.
Key contributions include developing causal inference methods for missing data and fairness, as well as software tools like Ananke. He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Causal Inference and the American Journal of Epidemiology. His research is funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, and the Office of Naval Research.
Shpitser advises numerous PhD students, many of whom have transitioned to academic and industry roles. His interdisciplinary collaborations span biostatistics, computer science, and public health, emphasizing real-world applications of causal methods.
