Scholar
Stijn Vansteelandt
Google Scholar ID: 734J_XAAAAAJ
Professor of Statistics, Ghent University
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,362
H-index
48
i10-index
151
Publications
20
Co-authors
5
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded an Advanced ERC Grant in 2024 for research on Assumption-lean (Causal) Modeling and Estimation
- Served as Co-Editor of Biometrics, the flagship journal of the International Biometric Society
- Associate Editor for prestigious journals including American Journal of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society–Series B, etc.
- Joined the editorial board of the new journal Statistical Learning and Data Science in 2025
- Paper 'Debiasing Synthetic Data Generated by Deep Generative Models' accepted to NeurIPS 2024 and received Best Poster Award at the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium annual meeting
- Discussion paper 'Chasing Shadows: How Implausible Assumptions Skew Our Understanding of Causal Estimands' (with Kelly Van Lancker) to be presented at a webinar in November 2025
Background
- Biostatistician with over 20 years of experience in developing statistical methods for causal inference
- Currently Professor of Statistical Methodology at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Belgium
- Core member of Ghent University’s causal inference research community, initiated in the mid-1990s by his former PhD advisor Prof. Els Goetghebeur
- Completed postdoctoral training under Andrea Rotnitzky and James Robins at the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
- Held a part-time professorship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2017–2021)
