Siyu Heng

Siyu Heng

Siyu Heng

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Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Professional overview

Siyu Heng, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, with an interest in both methodology research and applied research. His areas of expertise are in causal inference, health data science, observational studies, randomized trials, sensitivity analysis, instrumental variables, measurement error, and in survey data and their applications in public health.

Dr. Heng’s research has been published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and in Physical Review, among others. He has been recognized with several awards, including the IPUMS Global Health Research Award for the Best Student Paper; the Lawrence D. Brown Best Paper Award; the ASA Mental Health Statistics Section Student Paper Award; the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award; the NESS Student Research Award, and the Wellcome Trust Data Reuse Prize.

Dr. Heng received his PhD in applied mathematics and computational science from the University of Pennsylvania, and his BA in statistics from Nanjing University.

Education

PhD Candidate, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (Statistics Track) University of Pennsylvania
BS, Mathematics, Nanjing University

Honors and awards

IPUMS Global Health Research Award for the Best Student Paper, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (2021)
IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2021)
ASA Mental Health Statistics Section Student Paper Award, American Statistical Association Section on Mental Health Statistics (2021)
ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (2021)
Wellcome Trust Data Reuse Prize: Malaria, Wellcome Trust (2019)
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences (201620172018)

Areas of research and study

Causal Inference
Epidemiology
Global Health
Health Equity
Instrumental Variables
Observational Studies
Public Health Policy
Randomized Experimentation
Social Sciences

Publications

Bias mitigation in matched observational studies with continuous treatments: calipered non-bipartite matching and bias-corrected estimation and inference

Heng, S., Frazier, A., Heng, S., & Zhou, W. (n.d.).

Publication year

2026

Journal title

Biometrics

Volume

82

Issue

1

Page(s)

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Peri-Rolandic and Occipital Sparing Cortical Edema: A Prevalent MRI Finding in Pediatric Patients with Cerebral Malaria

Heng, S., Vidal, L., Zandifar, A., Kim, J., Tierradentro-Garc’ia, L. O., Heng, S., Meneses, M., Small, D., Chetcuti, K., O’Brien, N., Postels, D., & others. (n.d.).

Publication year

2026

Journal title

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volume

47

Issue

2

Page(s)

473--481
Abstract
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Propensity Score Propagation: A General Framework for Design-Based Inference with Unknown Propensity Scores

Heng, S., Heng, S., Shen, Y., & Guo, Z. (n.d.).

Publication year

2026

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13150
Abstract
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Selecting optimized behavioral interventions from an optimization randomized controlled trial on increasing COVID-19 testing for African American/Black and Latino frontline essential workers not up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination

Heng, S., Heng, S., Ye, X., Strayhorn, J. C., Cleland, C. M., Parameswaran, L., & Gwadz, M. (n.d.).

Publication year

2026

Journal title

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volume

60

Issue

1

Page(s)

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A Non-Bipartite Matching Framework for Difference-in-Differences with General Treatment Types

Heng, S., Heng, S., Huang, Y., & Kang, H. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21973
Abstract
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A Universal Framework for Factorial Matched Observational Studies with General Treatment Types: Design, Analysis, and Applications

Heng, S., Zhu, J., Zhang, T., Silver, D., Matthay, E., El-Shahawy, O., Kang, H., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.18997
Abstract
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Adaptive Dwell Scheduling Based on Q-Learning for Multifunctional Radar System

Heng, S., Heng, S., Cheng, T., He, Z., Wang, Y., & Liu, L. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics

Volume

36

Issue

4

Page(s)

985--993
Abstract
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Bridging the gap between design and analysis: randomization inference and sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with treatment doses

Heng, S., Zhang, J., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Biometrics

Volume

81

Issue

4

Page(s)

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Comparing the Treatment and Side Effects of Existing Bariatric Surgery Procedures: An Observational Study

Heng, S., Yin, Q., Zhang, J., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

medRxiv

Page(s)

2025--12
Abstract
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Design-Based Causal Inference with Missing Outcomes: Missingness Mechanisms, Imputation-Assisted Randomization Tests, and Covariate Adjustment

Heng, S., Heng, S., Zhang, J., & Feng, Y. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Page(s)

1--24
Abstract
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Determining vaccine responders in the presence of baseline immunity using single-cell assays and paired control samples

Heng, S., Chen, Z., Heng, S., Tapley, A., De, R. S., & Zhang, B. o. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Biostatistics

Volume

26

Issue

1

Page(s)

kxaf045
Abstract
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Effects of behavioral intervention components to increase COVID-19 testing for African American/Black and Latine frontline essential workers not up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination: Results of an optimization randomized controlled trial

Heng, S., Gwadz, M., Heng, S., Cleland, C. M., Strayhorn, J., Robinson, J. A., Serrano, F., Wang, P., Parameswaran, L., & Chero, R. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volume

48

Issue

4

Page(s)

553--571
Abstract
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Neutralizing and binding antibodies are a correlate of risk of COVID-19 in the CoVPN 3008 study in people with HIV

Heng, S., Mkhize, N. N., Zhang, B. o., Brackett, C., Elyanu, P. J., Tapley, A., Dadabhai, S., Hu, J., Do, B. T., Schuster, D. J., Heptinstall, J., & others. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Nature communications

Volume

16

Issue

1

Page(s)

8876
Abstract
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Parent-daughter agreement about HPV vaccination status in Kenya and Malawi

Heng, S., Moucheraud, C., Ochieng, E., Kweka, A., Wang, P., Xie, S., Ototo, J., Golub, G., Kapindo, E., Banda, E., Abdillahi, H., & others. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Vaccine

Volume

55

Page(s)

127025
Abstract
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Sensitivity analysis for binary outcome misclassification in randomization tests via integer programming

Heng, S., Heng, S., & Shaw, P. A. (n.d.).

Publication year

2025

Journal title

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volume

34

Issue

4

Page(s)

1528--1541
Abstract
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A comprehensive graph pooling benchmark: Effectiveness, robustness and generalizability

Heng, S., Wang, P., Luo, J., Shen, Y., Zhang, M., Qin, S., Heng, S., & Luo, X. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09031
Abstract
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Adaptive Dwell Scheduling Based on Dual-Side Time Pointers for Simultaneous Multi-Beam Radar

Heng, S., Heng, S., Cheng, T., Song, J., He, Z., Liu, L., & Wang, Y. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volume

30

Issue

3

Page(s)

1190--1200
Abstract
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Bias reduction in matched observational studies with continuous treatments: Calipered non-bipartite matching and bias-corrected estimation and inference

Heng, S., Frazier, S. H., & Zhou, W. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv

Volume

2409
Abstract
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Delta: Dual consistency delving with topological uncertainty for active graph domain adaptation

Heng, S., Wang, P., Cao, Y., Russell, C., Shen, Y., Luo, J., Zhang, M., Heng, S., & Luo, X. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08946
Abstract
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Generalized Rosenbaum bounds sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with treatment doses: sufficiency, consistency, and efficiency

Heng, S., Heng, S., & Kang, H. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv e-prints

Page(s)

arXiv--2403
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Maximizing the reach of universal child sexual abuse prevention: Protocol for an equivalence trial

Heng, S., Guastaferro, K., Melchior, M. S., Heng, S., Trudeau, J., & Holloway, J. L. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Contemporary clinical trials communications

Volume

41

Page(s)

101345
Abstract
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Re-evaluating the impact of reduced malaria prevalence on birthweight in sub-Saharan Africa: A pair-of-pairs study via two-stage bipartite and non-bipartite matching

Heng, S., Wang, P., Huang, P., Jin, Y., Shen, Y., Shahawy, O. E., Ham, D. W., O’Meara, W. P., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19314
Abstract
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Real-time dwell scheduling based on a unified pulse interleaving framework for phased array radar

Heng, S., Cheng, T., Liu, L., Li, Z., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volume

29

Issue

5

Page(s)

1540--1553
Abstract
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Sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with continuous exposures and binary outcomes

Heng, S., Zhang, J., Small, D. S., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

Biometrika

Volume

111

Issue

4

Page(s)

1349--1368
Abstract
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Towards Robust Matched Observational Studies with General Treatment Types: Consistency, Efficiency, and Adaptivity

Heng, S., Heng, S., Chiu, E. K., & Kang, H. (n.d.).

Publication year

2024

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14152
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Contact

siyuheng@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003
NYU School of Global Public Health
708 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

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