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Congratulations to our collaborator Dr. Guy Shani on his poster at the third annual a2 National Symposium in Boston!

Check out today’s story in the Harvard Gazette about mHealth apps as pocket personal coaches! See news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Our special session on "Sensor-Informed Closed-Loop Systems for Personalized Health Support" led by postdoc Asim Gazi and co-organized with Conor Walsh has been accepted for the 47th Annual Int'l Conf. of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society in Copenhagen this July!

Postdocs Daiqi Gao and Ziping Xu are presenting at today’s Kempner Institute at Harvard University all-hands meeting!

Congratulations to grad student Anna Trella on her successful PhD thesis defense!!

Tomorrow former postdoc Hsin-Yu Lai is presenting “Harnessing Causality in Reinforcement Learning with Bagged Decision Times” on work with postdoc Daiqi Gao, Pedja Klasnja, and myself at AISTATS Conference 2025! See virtual.aistats.org/virtual/2025/p… for more info

Congratulations to grad student Sarah Rathnam, who successfully defended her PhD thesis today!!

I’m delighted to be giving a plenary talk at The Past, Present, and Future of Statistics in the Era of AI, a conference in celebration of GW Statistics’ 90th anniversary! For more info on the conference, see statistics.columbian.gwu.edu/gw-stat-90

Postdoc Daiqi Gao is giving the talk “Harnessing Causality in Reinforcement Learning with Bagged Decision Times” tomorrow at SCI-ACIC 2025! For more information, see sci-info.org/annual-meeting…

Postdoc Ziping Xu is giving the mDOT webinar “Reinforcement Learning for Digital Health in the Dyadic Setting” tomorrow! See mhealthhub.org/training/mdot-… for more info

Postdoc Ziping Xu is talking on casual DAG-informed reward design tomorrow in the invited session Advancing Causal Inference and Data Science in Digital Health: Novel Methodologies and Applications at NESS 2025! For more info, see symposium.nestat.org

I’m looking forward to giving an Statistical Learning & Data Science webinar, “Reinforcement Learning in the Dyadic Setting,” on Wed June 4 at 3:30 pm EST! To get tickets (free), see eventbrite.com/e/reinforcemen…

I am really looking forward to discussing personalizing JITAIs in tomorrow’s Grand Rounds in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern tomorrow! For more information, see planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/629359

Daiqi Gao’s ICSA 2025 presentation tomorrow is “Harnessing Causality in Online Reinforcement Learning for Digital Interventions.”

Ke Sun’s ICSA 2025 presentation tomorrow is presenting “Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Regularized Wasserstein Loss.”

Congratulations to Anna Trella on her new position as Applied Scientist in the personalization department at Amazon, where she will be exploring new frontiers in RL!

Two Murphy lab postdocs are presenting at ICSA 2025 tomorrow! For conference info, see symposium2025.icsa.org

Here’s a great short from Schmidt Science Fellows on postdoc Asim Gazi’s work building intelligent algorithms to help wearable devices provide real-time mental health support! youtu.be/-Z59iiMlbJA?si…

Congratulations to Yongyi Guo on her new NSF award “Addressing Data Scarcity in Reinforcement Learning: Inference and Decision-Making under Complex Environments”!! Yea, Yongyi!

Congratulations to my colleague Billie Nahum-Shani, whom University of Michigan has just honored with a Collegiate Research Professorship!! A very well deserved recognition of her high-impact scientific work!