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Faculty

LI Bo

Department of Management Science and Engineering    Associate Professor (with Tenure)

Phone:(86)(10)62795143

E-mail:libo@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Office:421 Lihua Building

Office Hours:Thu. 15:00-16:00

Educational Background

2002-2006   Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

1998-2002   B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University

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Work Experience

2006-present   School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China



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Courses

Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Big Data Analytics

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Research Areas

Data-Driven Decision Making, Causal Inference, Machine Learning and Economics

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Publications

Google Scholar Homepage

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=GaJXFWMAAAAJ


  • Wang, Kang, Xu, Renzhe, Li, Bo. (2026). Lower Bias, Higher Welfare: How Creator Competition Reshapes Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Recommendation Platforms? KDD 2026.

  • Shi, Bowen, Mao, Xiaojie, Yang, Mochen, Li, Bo. (2025). What, Why, and How: An Empiricists Guide to Double/Debiased Machine Learning. Information Systems Research, forthcoming.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Wang, Haotian, Zhang, Xingxuan, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2025). Ppa-game: Characterizing and learning competitive dynamics among online content creators. KDD 2025.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Wang, Kang, Li, Bo. (2025). Heterogeneous Data Game: Characterizing the Model Competition Across Multiple Data Sources. ICML 2025.

  • Chhabra, Anshuman, Li, Bo, Chen, Jian, Mohapatra, Prasant, Liu, Hongfu. (2024). Outlier Gradient Analysis: Efficiently Identifying Detrimental Training Samples for Deep Learning Models. ICML 2025 (Oral).

  • Zhu, Minqin, Wu, Anpeng, Li, Haoxuan, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Li, Bo, Wu, Fei, Kuang, Kun. (2025). Learning double balancing representation for heterogeneous dose-response curve estimation. Neural Networks, 107600.

  • Zhao, Ziyu, Wu, Anpeng, Kuang, Kun, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Li, Bo, Wang, Zhihua, Wu, Fei. (2025). Networked Instrumental Variable for Treatment Effect Estimation With Unobserved Confounders. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE), 32(2), 823-836.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Wu, Jiayun, Wang, Tianyu, Zou, Hao, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2023). Geometry-Calibrated DRO: Combating Over-Pessimism with Free Energy Implications. ICML 2024.

  • Zhu, Minqin, Wu, Anpeng, Li, Haoxuan, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Li, Bo, Yang, Xiaoqing, Qin, Xuan, Zhen, Peng, Guo, Jiecheng, Wu, Fei. (2024). Contrastive balancing representation learning for heterogeneous dose-response curves estimation. AAAI 2024.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Wu, Jiayun, Peng, Jie, Wu, Xiaoyu, Zheng, Yang, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2024). Enhancing Distributional Stability among Sub-populations. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTAT) 2024.

  • Zhao, Ziyu, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng, Wu, Runze, Xiao, Jun, Wu, Fei. (2023). Differentiated matching for individual and average treatment effect estimation. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 37(1), 205-227.

  • Kuang, Kun, Wang, Haotian, Liu, Yue, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Wu, Runze, Lu, Weiming, Zhuang, Yueting, Wu, Fei, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo. (2023). Stable prediction with leveraging seed variable. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE), 35(6), 6392-6404.

  • Wu, Anpeng, Yuan, Junkun, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Wu, Runze, Zhu, Qiang, Zhuang, Yueting, Wu, Fei. (2023). Learning decomposed representations for treatment effect estimation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE), 35(5), 4989-5001.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Shen, Zheyan, Cui, Peng, Zhou, Linjun, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo. (2023). Distributionally robust learning with stable adversarial training. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE), 35(11), 11288-11300.

  • Chen, Qianyi, Li, Bo, Deng, Lu, Wang, Yong. (2023). Optimized covariance design for ab test on social network under interference. NeurIPS 2023.

  • Wu, Anpeng, Kuang, Kun, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Li, Bo, Wu, Fei. (2023). Stable estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects. ICML 2023.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Wang, Haotian, Zhang, Xingxuan, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2023). Competing for Shareable Arms in Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits. ICML 2023.

  • Wu, Anpeng, Kuang, Kun, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Zhu, Minqin, Liu, Yuxuan, Li, Bo, Liu, Furui, Wang, Zhihua, Wu, Fei. (2023). Learning instrumental variable from data fusion for treatment effect estimation. AAAI 2023.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Wu, Jiayun, Pi, Renjie, Xu, Renzhe, Zhang, Xingxuan, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2023). Measure the predictive heterogeneity.  ICLR 2023.

  • Zou, Hao, Wang, Haotian, Xu, Renzhe, Li, Bo, Pei, Jian, Jian, Ye Jun, Cui, Peng. (2023). Factual observation based heterogeneity learning for counterfactual prediction. Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning 2023.

  • Kuang, Kun, Cui, Peng, Zou, Hao, Li, Bo, Tao, Jianrong, Wu, Fei, Yang, Shiqiang. (2022). Data-driven Variable Decomposition for Treatment Effect Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 34(5), 2120–2134.

  • Yuan, Junkun, Wu, Anpeng, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Wu, Runze, Wu, Fei, Lin, Lanfen. (2022). Auto IV: Counterfactual prediction via automatic instrumental variable decomposition. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 16(4), 1-20.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Zhang, Xingxuan, Li, Bo, Zhang, Yafeng, Chen, Xiaolong, Cui, Peng. (2022). Product Ranking for Revenue Maximization with Multiple Purchases. NeurIPS 2022.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Wu, Jiayun, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng. (2022). Distributionally Robust Optimization with Data Geometry. NeurIPS 2022.

  • Zou, Hao, Li, Bo, Han, Jiangang, Chen, Shuiping, Ding, Xuetao, Cui, Peng. (2022). Counterfactual prediction for outcome-oriented treatments. ICML 2022.

  • Wu, Anpeng, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Wu, Fei. (2022). Instrumental variable regression with confounder balancing. ICML 2022.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Zhang, Xingxuan, Li, Bo, Zhang, Yafeng, Chen, Xiaolong, Cui, Peng. (2022). Regulatory instruments for fair personalized pricing. WWW 2022.

  • Kuang, Kun, Li, Yunzhe, Li, Bo, Cui, Peng, Yang, Hongxia, Tao, Jianrong, Wu, Fei. (2021). Continuous treatment effect estimation via generative adversarial de-confounding. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 35(6), 2467-2497.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Hu, Zheyuan, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Shen, Zheyan. (2021). Kernelized Heterogeneous Risk Minimization. NeurIPS 2021.

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Hu, Zheyuan, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Shen, Zheyan. (2021). Heterogeneous risk minimization. ICML 2021 (Spotlight).

  • Liu, Jiashuo, Shen, Zheyan, Cui, Peng, Zhou, Linjun, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Lin, Yishi. (2021). Stable adversarial learning under distributional shifts. AAAI 2021.

  • Gu, Xinyue, Li, Bo. (2020). Cross-estimation for decision selection. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 36(5), 932-958.

  • Zou, Hao, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Shen, Zheyan, Ma, Jianxin, Yang, Hongxia, He, Yue. (2020). Counterfactual Prediction for Bundle Treatment. NeurIPS 2020.

  • Xu, Renzhe, Cui, Peng, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Zhou, Linjun, Shen, Zheyan, Cui, Wei. (2020). Algorithmic decision making with conditional fairness. KDD 2020.

  • Shen, Zheyan, Cui, Peng, Liu, Jiashuo, Zhang, Tong, Li, Bo, Chen, Zhitang. (2020). Stable learning via differentiated variable decorrelation. KDD 2020.

  • Kuang, Kun, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Cui, Peng, Athey, Susan, Li, Bo. (2020). Stable prediction with model misspecification and agnostic distribution shift. AAAI 2020.

  • Kuang, Kun, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Jiang, Meng, Wang, Yashen, Wu, Fei, Yang, Shiqiang. (2019). Treatment effect estimation via differentiated confounder balancing and regression. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 14(1), 1-25.

  • Li, Bo, Liang, Baosheng, Tong, Xingwei, Sun, Jianguo. (2019). On estimation of partially linear varying-coefficient transformation models with censored data. Statistica Sinica, 29(4), 1963-1975.

  • Wang, Hao, Li, Bo, Tong, Seung Hoon, Chang, In-Kap, Wang, Kaibo. (2018). A discrete spatial model for wafer yield prediction. Quality Engineering, 30(2), 169-182.

  • Kuang, Kun, Cui, Peng, Athey, Susan, Xiong, Ruoxuan, Li, Bo. (2018). Stable prediction across unknown environments. KDD 2018.

  • Shen, Zheyan, Cui, Peng, Kuang, Kun, Li, Bo, Chen, Peixuan. (2018). Causally regularized learning with agnostic data selection bias. ACM MM 2018.

  • Kuang, Kun, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Jiang, Meng, Yang, Shiqiang. (2017). Estimating treatment effect in the wild via differentiated confounder balancing. KDD 2017.

  • Kuang, Kun, Cui, Peng, Li, Bo, Jiang, Meng, Yang, Shiqiang, Wang, Fei. (2017). Treatment effect estimation with data-driven variable decomposition. AAAI 2017.

  • He, Luo, Xie, Xiaolei, Liu, Hongyan, Li, Bo. (2017). How out-of-pocket ratio influences readmission: An analysis based on front sheet of inpatient medical record. International Conference on Smart Health, 67-78.

  • Wang, Kaibo, Jiang, Wei, Li, Bo. (2016). A spatial variable selection method for monitoring product surface. International Journal of Production Research, 54(14), 4161-4181.

  • Tao, Jialing, Wang, Kaibo, Li, Bo, Liu, Liang, Cai, Qi. (2016). Hierarchical models for the spatial-temporal carbon nanotube height variations. International Journal of Production Research, 54(21), 6613-6632.

  • Liu, Angela, Mazumdar, Tridib, Li, Bo. (2015). Counterfactual decomposition of movie star effects with star selection. Management Science, 61(7), 1704-1721.

  • Li, Bo, Wang, Chi, Wei, Li, Bo. (2014). Trends in China’s gender employment and pay gap: Estimating gender pay gaps with employment selection. Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3), 708-725.

  • Wang, Kaibo, Yeh, Arthur B, Li, Bo. (2014). Simultaneous monitoring of process mean vector and covariance matrix via penalized likelihood estimation. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 78, 206-217.

  • Li, Bo, Yeh, Arthur B. (2013). Monitoring the covariance matrix via penalized likelihood estimation. IIE Transactions, 45(2), 132-146.

  • Yeh, Arthur B, Li, Bo, Wang, Kaibo. (2012). Monitoring multivariate process variability with individual observations via penalised likelihood estimation. International Journal of Production Research, 50(22), 6624-6638.

  • Chi, Wei, Li, Bo, Yu, Qiumei. (2011). Decomposition of the increase in earnings inequality in urban China: A distributional approach. China Economic Review, 22(3), 299-312.

  • Leng, Chenlei, Li, Bo. (2011). Forward adaptive banding for estimating large covariance matrices. Biometrika, 98(4), 821-830.

  • Leng, Chenlei, Li, Bo. (2010). Least squares approximation with a diverging number of parameters. Statistics & Probability Letters, 80(3-4), 254-261.

  • Li, Bo. (2009). Asymptotically distribution-free goodness-of-fit testing: A unifying view. Econometric Reviews, 28(6), 632-657.

  • Wang, Hansheng, Li, Bo, Leng, Chenlei. (2009). Shrinkage tuning parameter selection with a diverging number of parameters. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 71(3), 671-683.

  • Chi, Wei, Li, Bo. (2008). Glass ceiling or sticky floor? Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban China, 1987-2004. Journal of Comparative Economics, 36(2), 243-263.

  • Li, Bo. (2008). Nonparametric testing of an exclusion restriction in quantile regression. Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 37(18), 2877-2889.

  • Bickel, Peter, Li, Bo, Bengtsson, Thomas. (2008). Sharp failure rates for the bootstrap particle filter in high dimensions. In Pushing the Limits of Contemporary Statistics: Contributions in Honor of Jayanta K. Ghosh (Vol. 3, pp. 318-330). Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections.

  • Bengtsson, Thomas, Bickel, Peter, Li, Bo. (2008). Curse-of-dimensionality revisited: Collapse of the particle filter in very large scale systems. In Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman (Vol. 2, pp. 316-335). Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections.

  • Bickel, Peter J, Li, Bo. (2007). Local polynomial regression on unknown manifolds. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, 177-186.

  • Bickel, Peter J, Li, Bo. (2006). Regularization in statistics (with discussion and rejoinder). Test, 15(2), 303-344.


Journal Papers (in Chinese)

  • Managerial individual characteristics and corporate performance: Evidence from a machine learning approach (with Yao Lu, Yeqing Zhang, Haoyu Zhao), Journal of Management Science, 2020

  • Empirical research on enterprise micro-blogs' worth-of-mouth of Sina Weibo (with Jing Zhang, Jinghua Huang and Wei Yan), Journal of Tsinghua University (Science), Vol.54, Issue 5, 649-654, 2014.

  • Empirical Studies of the ERP Adoption and Firm Performance based on Propensity Score Matching (with Lu Zhang and Jinghua Huang), Journal of Tsinghua University (Science), Vol.53, Issue 1, 2013.

  • Empirical investigation of the impact of human capital on regional innovation and economic growth in China (with Xiaoye Qian and Wei Chi), Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Vol.4,
    pp.107-121, 2010.

  • Decomposition of Rising Income Inequality Based on the Distributions (with Wei Chi and Qiumei Yu), Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Vol.9, pp.34-46, 2008.

  • Recent Developments in Econometric Methods of Income Inequality Study (with Wei Chi and Qiumei Yu), Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Vol.8, pp.119-129, 2007.


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