Dennis Shen

Dennis Shen

Postdoc EECS

MIT

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at MIT within the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). I recently received my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Devavrat Shah.

Interests

  • Causal Inference
  • Machine Learning
  • High-dimensional Probability & Statistics
  • Matrix/Tensor Estimation

Education

  • PhD in EECS, 2020

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • MSc in EECS, 2017

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • BSc in EE, 2015

    University of California, San Diego

Publications

Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions

Under Submission, 2020.
Chandler Squires, Dennis Shen, Anish Agarwal, Devavrat Shah, Caroline Uhler
PDF

On Principal Component Regression in a High-dimensional Error-in-variables Setting

Under submission, 2020.
Anish Agarwal, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
PDF

Synthetic Interventions

Under Submission, 2020. Workshop version in NeurIPS Workshop on CausalML, 2019
Anish Agarwal, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
PDF

Two Burning Questions on COVID-19

Memo, 2020
Anish Agarwal, Abdullah Alomar, Arnab Sarker, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Cindy Yang
PDF Project

On Robustness of Principal Component Regression

NeurIPS, 2019 (oral presentation). To also appear in Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA)
Anish Agarwal, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen, Dogyoon Song
PDF

Multi-dimensional Robust Synthetic Control

ACM Sigmetrics, 2019. Also in POMACS, 2019.
Jehangir Amjad, Vishal Misra, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
PDF

Model Agnostic Time Series Analysis via Matrix Estimation

ACM Sigmetrics, 2019. Also in POMACS, 2018.
Anish Agarwal, Muhammad Jehangir Amjad, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
PDF

Robust Synthetic Control

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2018
Muhammad Jehangir Amjad, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shen
PDF

Work & Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT LIDS

Sep 2020 – Present Cambridge, MA
 
 
 
 
 

Core Data Science Research Intern

Facebook

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 Menlo Park, California
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

MIT SPPIN

Sep 2015 – Aug 2020 Cambridge, MA
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Computer Vision and Robotics Research

Sep 2014 – Jun 2015 La Jolla, California
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Mobile Systems Design Lab

Jan 2013 – Sep 2014 La Jolla, California

Teaching

MIT 6.s077 Introduction to Data Science and Statistics (Spring 2019)
  • undergraduate-level introduction to principles, models, and algorithms for data science
UCSD ECE 35 Introduction to Analog Design (2013 - 2015)
  • undergraduate-level introduction to fundamental circuit theory concepts
UCSD ECE 25 Introduction to Digital Design (2013 - 2015)
  • undergraduate-level introduction to digital electronics

Art

Sometimes, I dillydally in art.

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