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+title: Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the University of Maryland as part of the Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics seminar series.
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+Special thanks to [Steve Mount](https://cbmg.umd.edu/people/stephen-mount) for the invite. 
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+title: Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the 4th Annual Penn Conference On Big Data in Biomedical and Population Health Sciences on Artificial Intelligence and Causal Inference in Population Health and Biomedicine.
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+Special thanks to [Mingyao Li](https://transgen.med.upenn.edu/) and [Hongze Lee](https://statgene.med.upenn.edu/) for the invitation and hosting. 
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+Check out the [conference website for more details](https://web.cvent.com/event/47f55e50-9b98-493a-bc42-58123641c5e5/summary). 
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