[AIRG] Barnard PhD Defense

[Aubrey Barnard <barnard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AIRG and research colleagues,

I just wanted to announce to a potentially different audience than 
graduates@cs that I'm defending my PhD dissertation tomorrow morning. 
Everybody's welcome.

Who: me, my committee, and anybody who wants to come
What: a (hopefully) not too long talk about my research
When: 8:30am, food / drink @ 8:15am, Monday, December 02, 2019
Where: CS 3310
Why: it's been long enough
How: show up, talk, listen, celebrate
Abstract:
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Causal Discovery of Adverse Drug Events in Observational Data

Methods for causal discovery from observational data have the potential 
to produce insights in any field where one gathers data and seeks to 
understand how the world works, from social science to business to 
medicine to artificial intelligence. This defense describes such methods 
that have been developed for identifying adverse drug events in 
electronic health records databases. The methods include both (1) new 
analyses of observational studies (the typical statistical / 
epidemiological approach) that emphasize hypothesizing adverse events, 
and (2) advances in learning the structure of causal models (the formal, 
probabilistic approach of Judea Pearl et al.).
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Here's the calendar event in case you want iCal:
http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/142758

Let me know if you want to be included in any social notifications but 
aren't coming to the defense. (There will also be a proper party for 
everybody in David Page's group on December 18.)

Aubrey