Causal Inference for Data Science

This teaching line focuses on moving from predictive models to causal questions: what would happen under a different intervention, policy, design, or institutional decision?

Topics include directed acyclic graphs, confounding, matching, fixed effects, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, sensitivity analysis, and causal machine learning.

Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor and Head of CRiSS-LAB, School of Engineering and School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.

My research interests include applied AI, computational social science, network science, collective intelligence, school coexistence, decision intelligence, and business analytics.