Ilya Shpitser is a Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology of the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2008 under the direction of Judea Pearl. Prior to Harvard, he was a postdoctoral scholar working on learning gene regulatory networks in Eleazar Eskin's bioinformatics group at UCLA. His research interests include causal and statistical inference and learning in graphical models. He was the co-recepient of the best student paper award at UAI-06 for his work on identification of causal effects.