News

Oct 2025 New publication 🎉 Our paper “Instrumental Variable Estimation of Distributional Causal Effects” has been accepted for publication in the Electronic Journal of Statistics. This is joint work with Niklas Pfister. Code is available on GitHub.
Jul 2025 I am happy to have received the Early-Career Presentation Award (Runner-up) at the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling for my talk on “Falsifying causal models via nonparametric conditional independence testing”. The corresponding paper is available here.
May 2025 I presented our paper “Model-based causal feature selection for general response types” (published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association) as part of the AISTATS 2025 Journal-to-Conference Track.
Aug 2024 New publication 🎉 “Algorithm-agnostic significance testing in supervised learning with multimodal data” in collaboration with Anton Rask Lundborg has been accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics! The corresponding comets R package is available on GitHub and CRAN.
Aug 2024 New publication 🎉 “Model-based causal feature selection for general response types” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Software implementing our method is available in the R package tramicp on GitHub and on CRAN.
Apr 2024 New publication 🎉 “Estimating Conditional Distributions with Neural Networks using R package deeptrafo got accepted for publication in the Journal of Statistical Software. Software is available on CRAN.
Mar 2024 I started my new role as Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of the Vienna University for Economics and Business.
Feb 2023 I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled “Deep Learning and Causal Inference with Transformation Models” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Jan 2023 I acquired a postdoctoral mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for my proposal on Distributional Instrumental Variables Estimation (DIVE). During the fellowship, I will be working with Niklas Pfister and Jonas Peters at the University of Copenhagen, starting March 2023.