The 6th Pacific Causal Inference Conference (PCIC 2024) was successfully held in Shanghai from July 5th to 6th, 2024. This conference was hosted by the organizing committee of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) and co-organized by the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, School of Statistics, East China Normal University, School of Statistics and Information, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, and the Artificial Intelligence Industry-University-Research Innovation Alliance of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The two-day conference kicked off with the Causal Inference Forum of WAIC held at the World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on the morning of July 5th. SUIBE President Wang Rongming attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks.
On behalf of the co-organizers, Wang Rongming extended a warm welcome and sincere gratitude to all attending the conference. He introduced the development and orientation of SUIBE, as well as its significant contributions to national and regional strategies. He expects that through the in-depth exchange at this conference, all parties can jointly embark on a journey full of inspiration and discovery, harnessing the power of causal inference to forge new frontiers of artificial intelligence technology.
Judea Pearl, Turing Award winner and Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, Donald B. Rubin, Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, Zhou Xiaohua, Professor of Peking University, and Theis Lange, Head of the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, delivered keynote speeches.
From the afternoon of July 5th to 6th, the 6th Pacific Causal Inference Conference (PCIC 2024), co-organized by SUIBE, was held at the Putuo campus of East China Normal University. Over 70 professors, researchers, and young scholars shared their latest findings both online and offline in causal inference, artificial intelligence, and other related fields at three parallel sessions.
Translated by Han Haiyi
