Diego Colombo

Duties

• Worked at the Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zurich, from September 2008 to March 2009.
• Assistant at the Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zurich, since September 2009
• PhD student of Prof. Marloes Maathuis, since September 2009

Research interests

• Causal inference
• Graphical models
• Latent variables
• Validations on data sets

Publications

• Colombo D., Maathuis M.H., Kalisch M. and Richardson T.S. (2012). Learning high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs with latent and selection variables. Annals of Statistics 40, 294-321. (arXiv:1104.5617v2, published version, extended abstract for UAI2011)
• Kalisch, M., Mächler, M., Colombo, D., Maathuis, M.H. and Bühlmann, P. (2012). Causal inference using graphical models with the R package pcalg. Journal of Statistical Software 47, Issue11, 1-26. (published version)
• Maathuis, M.H., Colombo, D., Kalisch, M. and Bühlmann, P. (2010). Predicting causal effects in large-scale systems from observational data. Nature Methods 7, 247-248. (published version, supplementary information)

Submitted papers

• Maathuis, M.H. and Colombo, D. (2013). A generalized backdoor criterion. (arXiv:1307.5636v2)
• Colombo D. and Maathuis M.H. (2012). A modification of the PC algorithm yielding order-independent skeletons. (arXiv:1211.3295v2)

Talks and Posters

• Causal inference based on observational data [invited talk]
  Statistical Methods for (post)-Genomics Data (SMPGD2013), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 24-25, 2013
• Learning causal information from observational data with hidden variables [contributed talk]
  8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9 - 14, 2012
• Learning causal information from observational data with hidden variables [invited talk]
  Statistical and dynamical models in biology and medicine, Göttingen, Germany, October 27 - 28, 2011
• Learning high-dimensional DAGs with latent and selection variables [Poster][extended abstract]
  27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 14 - 17, 2011
• Predicting causal effects in large-scale systems from observational data [Poster]
  Statistical Challenges and Biomedical Applications of Deep Sequencing Data, Ascona, Switzerland, June 5 - 10, 2011

Teaching

• Statistik (für Biol./Pharm. Wiss.), autumn semester 2012
• Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, spring semester 2012
• Applied Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design, autumn semester 2011
• Student Seminar in Statistics: Survival Analysis, spring semester 2011
• Applied Multivariate Statistics, spring semester 2010
• Statistik (für Biol./Pharm. Wiss.), autumn semester 2009
• Angewandte statistische Regression, autumn semester 2008
• Wahrscheinlichkeit und Statistik (für Informatik), while a student
• Analysis I and II (für Maschinenbau), while a student