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

Adaptive dwell scheduling for simultaneous multi-beam radar system based on array element selection with different polarization characteristics

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

Publication year

2023

Journal title

Digital Signal Processing

Volume

140

Page(s)

104093
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Bias Correction for Randomization-Based Estimation in Inexactly Matched Observational Studies

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

Publication year

2023

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02005
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Contributed Talk at the 2023 ENAR.

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Contributed Talk at the CCI Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Contributed Talk at the CCI Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Instrumental variables: to strengthen or not to strengthen?

Heng, S., Heng, S., Zhang, B. o., Han, X. u., Lorch, S. A., & Small, D. S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023

Journal title

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

Volume

186

Issue

4

Page(s)

852--873
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Invited Talk at Doctoral Seminar, School of Global Public Health, New York University

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Invited Talk at JSM 2023 (joint with Dr. Hyunseung Kang).

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Invited Talk at ``Dose Finding in Drug Development and Beyond" -- Conference Honoring Dr. Naitee Ting’s 70th Birthday, Storrs, U.S.A.

Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023
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Randomization-based inference for average treatment effect in inexactly matched observational studies

Heng, S., Zhu, J., Zhang, J., Guo, Z., & Heng, S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02005
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Real-time dwell scheduling algorithm for phased array radar based on a backtracking strategy

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

Publication year

2023

Journal title

IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation

Volume

17

Issue

2

Page(s)

261--276
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Reconciling Overt Bias and Hidden Bias in Sensitivity Analysis for Matched Observational Studies

Heng, S., Heng, S., Shen, Y., & Wang, P. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.11216
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Social distancing and COVID-19: randomization inference for a structured dose-response relationship

Heng, S., Zhang, B. o., Heng, S., Ye, T., & Small, D. S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023

Journal title

The Annals of Applied Statistics

Volume

17

Issue

1

Page(s)

23--46
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The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Sensitivity Analysis for Matched Observational Studies

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

Publication year

2023

Journal title

Observational Studies

Volume

9

Issue

1

Page(s)

35--41
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Valid Randomization Tests in Inexactly Matched Observational Studies via Iterative Convex Programming

Heng, S., Heng, S., Shen, Y., & Wang, P. (n.d.).

Publication year

2023

Journal title

arXiv e-prints

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arXiv--2311
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A Model-Free and Finite-Population-Exact Framework for Randomized Experiments Subject to Outcome Misclassification via Integer Programming

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

Publication year

2022

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03111
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Bridging preference-based instrumental variable studies and cluster-randomized encouragement experiments: Study design, noncompliance, and average cluster effect ratio

Heng, S., Zhang, B. o., Heng, S., MacKay, E. J., & Ye, T. (n.d.).

Publication year

2022

Journal title

Biometrics

Volume

78

Issue

4

Page(s)

1639--1650
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Hemoglobin levels among male agricultural workers: analyses from the Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate a marker for chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology

Heng, S., Lin, Y., Heng, S., Anand, S., Deshpande, S. K., & Small, D. S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2022

Journal title

Journal of occupational and environmental medicine

Volume

64

Issue

12

Page(s)

e805--e810
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Removing Strong Data Assumptions In Causal Inference Via Large-Scale Optimization

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

Publication year

2022
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Association between transesophageal echocardiography and clinical outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Heng, S., MacKay, E. J., Zhang, B. o., Heng, S., Ye, T., Neuman, M. D., Augoustides, J. G., Feinman, J. W., Desai, N. D., & Groeneveld, P. W. (n.d.).

Publication year

2021

Journal title

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volume

34

Issue

6

Page(s)

571--581
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Increasing power for observational studies of aberrant response: An adaptive approach

Heng, S., Heng, S., Kang, H., Small, D. S., & Fogarty, C. B. (n.d.).

Publication year

2021

Journal title

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volume

83

Issue

3

Page(s)

482--504
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Relationship between changing malaria burden and low birth weight in sub-Saharan Africa: A difference-in-differences study via a pair-of-pairs approach

Heng, S., Heng, S., O’Meara, W. P., Simmons, R. A., & Small, D. S. (n.d.).

Publication year

2021

Journal title

Elife

Volume

10

Page(s)

e65133
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Sharpening the Rosenbaum sensitivity bounds to address concerns about interactions between observed and unobserved covariates

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

Publication year

2021

Journal title

Statistica Sinica

Volume

31

Page(s)

2331--2353
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Finding the strength in a weak instrument in a study of cognitive outcomes produced by Catholic high schools

Heng, S., Heng, S., Small, D. S., & Rosenbaum, P. R. (n.d.).

Publication year

2020

Journal title

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

Volume

183

Issue

3

Page(s)

935--958
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On interactions between observed and unobserved covariates in matched observational studies

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

Publication year

2020

Journal title

arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00766
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Contact

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

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