Dr Hera Shi
| Position | Senior Research Fellow |
| Email (@ucl.ac.uk) | jieru.shi |
| Personal webpage | https://herashi.github.io/ |
| Themes | Biostatistics, General Theory and Methodology |
Biographical Details
Dr. Jieru Shi is a Senior Research Fellow, where she primarily works with Professor Karla Diaz Ordaz. Prior to joining UCL, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Statistical Laboratory at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS), University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Qingyuan Zhao. She earned her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan, where she was co-advised by Dr. Walter Dempsey and Dr. Zhenke Wu.
Research Interests
Causal Inference, Conditional Independence Testing, Longitudinal Data, Time Series, Machine Learning
Selected Publications
- J Shi, Z Wu, W Dempsey, “Assessing time-varying causal effect moderation in the presence of cluster-level treatment effect heterogeneity and interference”. Biometrika, Volume 110, Issue 3, 2023, Pages 645–662, doi: 10.1093/biomet/asac065.
- Huch, E., Shi, J., Abbott, M. R., Golbus, J., Moreno, A., & Dempsey, W.. 2024, “RoME: A Robust Mixed-Effects Bandit Algorithm for Optimizing Mobile Health Interventions.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37, 128280-128329.
- J Shi, Z Wu, W Dempsey, “Incorporating auxiliary variables to improve the efficiency of time-varying treatment effect estimation”. 2025, Journal of the American Statistical Association, doi: 10.1080/01621459.2025.2516197.