Bridging Industry and Academia
in Causal Data Science

Fostering a dialogue between industry and academia on causal data science.

November 12–13 2025, online.

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Programme 202501

Causal Data Science Meeting 2025

All scheduled times are in the Amsterdam/Copenhagen time zone. Paper titles to be added.

10:30 – 12:00

  • A Counterfactual Analysis of the Dishonest Casino
    Martin Haugh (Imperial College), Raghav Singal (Dartmouth College)
  • Position: Causal Machine Learning Requires Rigorous Synthetic Experiments for Broader Adoption
    Audrey Poinsot (INRIA & Ekimetrics),
    Panayiotis Panayiotou (University of Bath), Alessandro Leite (Normandy University, INSA), Nicolas Chesneau (Ekimetrics), Özgür Şimşek (University of Bath), Marc Schoenauer (TAU, LISN, INRIA)
  • Causal Inference for Root Cause Analysis in Manufacturing: A causaLens Approach
    Ameya Divekar
    (Michelin), Guillaume Ramelet (Michelin)
  • Calibration Strategies for Robust Causal Estimation: Theoretical and Empirical Insights on Propensity Score-Based Estimators
    Sven Klaassen (Economic AI), Jan Rabenseifner (U of Hamburg), Jannis Kueck (Heinrich Heine University), Philipp Bach (Free University of Berlin)
  • Learning and Testing Exposure Mappings of Interferenceusing Graph Convolutional Autoencoder
    Martin Huber (University of Fribourg), Jannis Kuek (University of Fribourg), Mara Mattes (Heinrich Heine University)

12:00 – 13:00

  • Break

13:00 – 14:20

  • Substitution Effects inFashion Retail Demand
    Evgenii Ozhegov (Zalando)
  • Seeking External Advice – Which Firms in EmergingMarkets Hire External Consultants?
    Marek Giebel (Copenhagen Business School), Alexander Lammers (FOM)
  • Do Zombie Firms Really Cause Congestion?
    Norbert Ernst (Austrian National Bank), Michael Sigmund (Austrian National Bank)
  • Policy Learning in Practice: Simulation Evidence and a Case Study of Optimal Allocation of Subsidised Health Insurance
    Julia Hatamyar (University of York), Noemi Kreif (University of Washington)

14:20 – 14:40

  • Break

14:40 – 16:00

  • Convergence of Q-Learning Under Relative Ignorability
    Mary Lena Bleile (Sanofi)
  • Precision Gains from Temporal Switchback Designs for Seat-Ancillary Pricing Experiments at LATAM Airlines
    Nicolas Ferrari Ortiz (LATAM Airlines), Sebastian Orellana (LATAM Airlines), Timur Abbiasov (ADC), Marie Garkavenko (ADC), Rutger Lit (ADC)
  • Improving Empirical Models in Strategic Management Research with Double Machine Learning
    Rylan Miller (Uni Maryland), Evan Starr (Uni Maryland)
  • Causal AI Scientist: Facilitating Causal Data Science with Large Language Models
    Vishal Verma (Carnegie Mellon University), Sawal Acharya (Stanford University), Samuel Simko (ETH Zürich), Devansh Bhardwaj (IIT Roorkee), Anahita Haghighat (Independent), Mrinmaya Sachan3 Dominik Janzing (Amazon), Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen), Zhijing Jin (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, University of Toronto, Vector Institute)

16:00 – 16:20

  • Break

17:40 – 18:00

  • Break

18:00 – 19:20

  • DAG It: Drawing Assumptions Before Conclusions Changes Results
    Michael Denly (Texas A&M University), Graham Goff (Texas A&M University)
  • Debiased Front-Door Learners for Heterogeneous Effects
    Yonghan Jung (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Non-overlap Average Treatment Effect Bounds
    Herbert P. Susmann (New York University), Alec McClean (New York University), Iván Díaz (New York University)
  • Compound Causal Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach
    Jiafeng Chen (Stanford University), Lihua Lei (Stanford University, Timothy Sudijono (Stanford University), Liyang Sun (University College London), Tian Xie (University College London)

10:30 – 11:50

  • Avoiding Mistakes in Measuring the Impact of AI
    Quentin Gallea (Independent)
  • Treatment Effect Estimators as Weighted Outcomes
    Michael Knaus (University of Tübingen)
  • Federated Causal Inference beyond Meta-Analysis in RCTs andObservational Studies
    Remi Khellaf (INRIA)
  • Quantile Individualized Average Treatment Effect
    Johanna Kutz (University of St. Gallen), Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen)
  • Sensitivity Analysis for Treatment Effects in Difference-in-Differences Models using Riesz Representation
    Philipp Bach (FU Berlin),
    Victor Chernozhukov (MIT), Sven Klaassen (University of Hamburg, Economic AI), Jannis Kueck (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Mara Mattes (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), and MartinSpindler (University of Hamburg, Economic AI)

11:50 – 13:00

  • Break

13:00 – 14:20

  • Causal Science Assistant
    Lokesh Nagalapatti
    (Microsoft Research), Grace Sng (Carnegie Mellon University), Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research)
  • Unsupervised Discovery of Causal Mechanisms for Management Research
    Marco Barbero Mot (Vanderbilt University) , Danilo Messinese (IE University)
  • Sensitivity Analysis for Quasi-Experimental Methods
    Carlos Trujillo (PyMC Labs), Anton Bugaev (PyMC Labs)
  • Open Causal: a FAIR Platform for Causal Graphs
    Hüseyin Küçükali (Utrecht University)

14:20 – 14:40

  • Break

14:40 – 16:00

  • Spotlight Session (Short presentations)
  • Vahid Balazadeh (U of Toronto)
  • Yan Chen (Duke Fuqua)
  • Arda Güler (Goethe U Frankfurt)
  • Jack Fitzgerald (VU Amsterdam)
  • Fabian Muny (U of St Gallen)
  • Ellestina Jumbe (U of Rome Tor Vergata)
  • Hugo Gobato Souto (U of Sao Paolo)
  • Shi Bo (Boston University)
  • Rebecca Supple (U of St Andrews)
  • Theresa Schmitz (HHU Düsseldorf)
  • Senan Hennessy (Cornell)
  • Adam Hardaker (U. of Kassel)

16:00 – 16:20

  • Break

16:20 – 17:40

  • Keynote with Q&A: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU)

17:40 – 18:00

  • Break

18:00 – 19:20

  • Power Analysis is Essential: High-Powered Tests Suggest Minimal to No Effect of Rounded Shapes on Click-Through Rates
    Ron Kohavi (Independent), Jakub Linowski (Independent), Lukas Vermeer (Vista), Fabrice Boisseranc (
    Kameleoon), Joachim Furuseth (Ascom), Andrew Gelman (Columbia University), Guido Imbens (Stanford University)
  • Interpretable Personalization in Large-Scale Digital Experiments
    Naveen Basavanhally (Intuit)
  • Adaptive Experimentation: Bandits & Paid Marketing
    Tilman Drerup (Instacart)
  • Enhancing Engagement Metric Sensitivity in Online Experiments via Machine Learning-Based Variance Reduction
    Minha Hwang (Microsoft)
Keynote02

Welcome Prof. Stefan Feuerriegel as our 2025 keynote speaker.

Susan Athey

Stefan Feuerriegel heads the new Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management. He holds a dual affiliation as a full professor at LMU Munich School of Management and the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics at LMU Munich.

In 2024, he visited the Stanford University in the USA as a Visiting Scholar. In 2025, he was a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM) at the University of Cambridge. Previously, Stefan was an assistant professor at ETH Zurich. He gaduated in 2015 with a Ph.D. at the Chair for In­form­a­tion Sys­tems Re­search (Prof. Dr. Dirk Neu­mann), Uni­ver­sity of Freiburg. Stefan has co-au­thored 70+ journal art­icles and 80+ peer-re­viewed con­fer­ence pa­pers. These works have ap­peared in top out­lets from gen­eral sci­ence (e.g. Nature, PNAS), man­age­ment (e.g Man­age­ment Sci­ence, Mar­ket­ing Sci­ence) and machine learning (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, WWW, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI). Stefan currently serves as methodological expert for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). His group is sup­por­ted by vari­ous com­pan­ies (e.g. Google, Mi­crosoft, Or­acle, Nvidia, Amazon) and mul­tiple grants, for which the fund­ing volume totals to more than EUR 5.5 mil­lion. In particular, he received an SNSF Eccellenza Grant, which is the equivalent in Switzerland to the ERC Starting Grant.

Participants03

Participating companies, among others.

OE logo2020INC logoThe Paak logoEphicient logoToogether logo
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Who it's for04

Research meets practice.

Students and Researchers

Explore cutting-edge methodologies and engage in discussions about the role and impact of causality in machine learning.

Industry Professionals

Bridge the gap between theory and practice by exploring real-world applications of causal data science.

Policy Makers

Understand the role of causality for fairness, robustness, and discrimination in policy-making.

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About the Meeting05

Providing an open space to advance the frontier of causal data science.

The Causal Data Science Meeting was founded in 2020 and thought as as a small-scale workshop for 50 attendees. However, already in its first year, CDSM received an overwhelming response of 900 pre-registrations, which encouraged us to continue the event annually. We aim to create a friendly, efficient, and constructive environment for academics and practitioners to exchange ideas on all causality-related topics in data science and machine learning. We strive to maintain transparency in our non-profit goal and use all sponsorships received to cover smaller expenses and PhD research.

5.200+

Participants since 2020

Accepted presentations

38%

Past keynote speakers

Judea Pearl
UCLA
Silivia Chiappa
Google DeepMind
Guido Imbens
Stanford University
Sara Magliacane
Amsterdam Machine
Learning Lab
Elias Bareinboim
Columbia University
Sean Taylor
Lyft
Dominik Janzing
Amazon Research
Susan Athey
Stanford University
Sponsors06

Thank you for sponsoring the #CDSM25

Become a Sponsor

Sponsors of the event will be displayed on the conference website and conference materials, with an opportunity to provide further information and job postings in the field of causal data science. During the last conference, sponsors had an exposure to more than 1.200 online participants.

What you get: Logos of the sponsoring company on the conference website of the Causal Data Science Meeting 2025 at causalscience.org, (b) visibility on presentation slides of the main conference (Welcome, Keynotes, Breaks; November 5-6), and (c) a short profile of the company , including links to three sponsor’s job postings related to causal inference. Proceeds from sponsoring are used to cover opearating expenses and research for/with PhDs.

Voices07

What participants say

I am thrilled to see people from different disciplines come together.

Guido Imbens
Stanford University, Recipient of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The next revolution will be even more impactful upon realizing that data science is the science of interpreting reality, not of summarizing data.

Judea Pearl
UCLA, Recipient of the Turing Award in 2011, Author of The Book of Why

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Organisers08

The Causal Data Science Meeting 2024 is jointly organized by researchers from Maastricht University, Netherlands, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Paul Hünermund
Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Jermain Kaminski
Assistant Professor, Maastricht University
Carla Schmitt
PhD Candidate, Maastricht University
Beyers Louw
Assistant Professor, Rotterdam School of Management
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