Lucius EJ Bynum
I am a Data Science Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science.
I do research at the intersection of causal inference (CI) and artificial intelligence (AI). My work includes developing tools to reimagine causal effect estimation as meta-learning as well as combine CI and AI tools (like language models and structural causal models) to fundamentally improve average as well as heterogeneous treatment effect estimation. I have also worked on improving inequality-aware decision making, on leveraging counterfactual reasoning to improve ML model explainability and reduce pre-existing disparities, and on reimagining how we use causal modeling formalisms to approach AI problems involving demographic data.
I completed my PhD at NYU CDS, generously supported by the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, and co-advised by Julia Stoyanovich as part of the Center for Responsible AI and by Joshua Loftus at the London School of Economics. In my dissertation research, I have also had the pleasure of working with Kyunghyun Cho and Jennifer Hill.
I am also passionate about teaching via public outreach and making educational material in these areas.
news
Mar 07, 2025 | New preprint release: Black Box Causal Inference: Effect Estimation via Meta Prediction. |
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Nov 13, 2024 | New preprint release: Language Models as Causal Effect Generators. |
Oct 08, 2024 | Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024! Causal Dependence Plots. |
Aug 03, 2024 | Paper accepted for oral presentation at IJCAI 2024! A New Paradigm for Counterfactual Reasoning in Fairness and Recourse. |
Apr 11, 2024 | Nominated for the 2024 Future Leaders Summit on Responsible Data Science and AI! Thank you to the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and to all attendees for a great symposium! |