Richard Guo
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
I am an Assistant Professor in Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
I earned my PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle. I was a Research Associate at the Statistical Laboratory of University of Cambridge and a Richard M. Karp research fellow at the Simons Institute. I also briefly served on the Biostatistics faculty of UW.
Below are a few research topics:
- Statistical foundations of causal inference: graphical models, partial identification, nonparametric and semiparametric methods;
- Replicable data analysis: randomized procedures and derandomization, “hunt and test”, data splitting;
- Honest & flexible uncertainty quantification: model selection, irregularity, finite sample inference.
My research is partially supported by an NSF DMS Grant.
PhD students: I am looking for students working with me on research. If you are a UMich PhD student or have just been admitted, feel free to reach out.
news
| Aug 12, 2026 | New collaboration with UCSF on interventions to reduce a patient’s length of stay at hospital. |
| Jul 31, 2026 | New preprint (w/ Aditya Dhawan and Rajen Shah) on hunt and test for semiparametric hypotheses. |
| May 28, 2026 | New R package dScoreTest for checking and comparing semiparametric regression models. |
| May 21, 2026 | Presented confounder selection via iterative graph expansion at UCSF. |
| May 1, 2026 | Presented hunt-and-test strategies for ML-powered hypothesis testing at Oxford. |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Presented the model-oriented distance at the Isaac Newton Institute, UK. |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Presented the IV work at the online causal inference seminar. |
| Nov 13, 2025 | New preprint (w/ Armeen Taeb and Leonard Henckel) on constructing a distance between statistical and causal graphs via posets. |
| Nov 12, 2025 | New work (w/ Yilin Song, Gary Chan and Thomas Richardson) that fully characterizes categorical IV models (beyond binary). |
| Jul 25, 2025 | I am elected a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). |