Alexander Volfovsky

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Duke University, Durham, United States

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Physical Sciences and Mathematics

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How many patients do you need? Investigating trial designs for anti‐seizure treatment in acute brain injury patients (journal article) Parikh, Harsh \| Sun, Haoqi \| Amerineni, Rajesh \| Rosenthal, Eric S. \| Volfovsky, Alexander \| Rudin, Cynthia \| Westover, M. Brandon \| Zafar, Sahar F. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2024). 10.1002/acn3.52059 Cite \| Source
Evaluating Pre-trial Programs Using Interpretable Machine Learning Matching Algorithms for Causal Inference (journal article) Seale-Carlisle, Travis \| Jain, Saksham \| Lee, Courtney \| Levenson, Caroline \| Ramprasad, Swathi \| Garrett, Brandon \| Roy, Sudeepa \| Rudin, Cynthia \| Volfovsky, Alexander Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, volume 38, issue 20, pages 22331-22340 (2024). 10.1609/aaai.v38i20.30239 Cite \| Source
Community informed experimental design (journal article) Mathews, Heather \| Volfovsky, Alexander Statistical Methods & Applications, volume 32, issue 4, pages 1141-1166 (2023). 10.1007/s10260-022-00679-6 Cite \| Source
Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election (journal article) Combs, Aidan \| Tierney, Graham \| Alqabandi, Fatima \| Cornell, Devin \| Varela, Gabriel \| Castro Araújo, Andrés \| Argyle, Lisa P. \| Bail, Christopher A. \| Volfovsky, Alexander Scientific Reports, volume 13, issue 1 (2023). 10.1038/s41598-023-39359-0 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform (journal article) Combs, Aidan \| Tierney, Graham \| Guay, Brian \| Merhout, Friedolin \| Bail, Christopher A. \| Hillygus, D. Sunshine \| Volfovsky, Alexander Nature Human Behaviour, volume 7, issue 9, pages 1454-1461 (2023). 10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0 Cited by (7) \| Cite \| Source
Postoperative Outcomes in Infants Undergoing ABO-incompatible Heart Transplantation in the United States (journal article) Chauhan, Dhaval \| Orlandi, Vittorio \| Rajab, Taufiek Konrad \| Bedeir, Kareem \| Volfovsky, Alexander \| Mokashi, Suyog The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, volume 114, issue 5, pages 1746-1752 (2022). 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.08.039 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
Likelihood-Based Inference for Partially Observed Epidemics on Dynamic Networks (journal article) Bu, Fan \| Aiello, Allison E. \| Xu, Jason \| Volfovsky, Alexander Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 117, issue 537, pages 510-526 (2022). 10.1080/01621459.2020.1790376 Cited by (6) \| Cite \| Source
Assortativity and Bias in Epidemiologic Studies of Contagious Outcomes: A Simulated Example in the Context of Vaccination (journal article) Zivich, Paul N \| Volfovsky, Alexander \| Moody, James \| Aiello, Allison E American Journal of Epidemiology, volume 190, issue 11, pages 2442-2452 (2021). 10.1093/aje/kwab167 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
The association between intersystem prison transfers and COVID-19 incidence in a state prison system (journal article) Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren \| LeMasters, Katherine \| Nguyen, Phuc \| Nowotny, Kathryn \| Cloud, David \| Volfovsky, Alexander PLOS ONE, volume 16, issue 8, pages e0256185- (2021). 10.1371/journal.pone.0256185 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas (journal article) Hollenbach, Florian M. \| Bojinov, Iavor \| Minhas, Shahryar \| Metternich, Nils W. \| Ward, Michael D. \| Volfovsky, Alexander Sociological Methods & Research, volume 50, issue 3, pages 1259-1283 (2021). 10.1177/0049124118799381 Cited by (12) \| Cite \| Source
SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Personnel and Their Household Contacts at a Tertiary Academic Medical Center: Protocol for a Longitudinal Cohort Study (Preprint) (journal article) Ciccone, Emily J \| Zivich, Paul N \| Lodge, Evans K \| Zhu, Deanna \| Law, Elle \| Miller, Elyse \| Taylor, Jasmine L \| Chung, Suemin \| Xu, Jason \| Volfovsky, Alexander \| ... \| Aiello, Allison E JMIR Research Protocols, volume 10, issue 4, pages e25410- (2021). 10.2196/25410 Cited by (5) \| Cite \| Source
Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation through Text: an Application to Political Polarization (conference) Tierney, Graham \| Volfovsky, Alexander Proceedings of the First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP (2021) Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 10.18653/v1/2021.cinlp-1.5 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source
Designs for estimating the treatment effect in networks with interference (journal article) Jagadeesan, Ravi \| Pillai, Natesh S. \| Volfovsky, Alexander The Annals of Statistics, volume 48, issue 2 (2020). 10.1214/18-AOS1807 Cited by (10) \| Cite \| Source
Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017 (journal article) Bail, Christopher A. \| Guay, Brian \| Maloney, Emily \| Combs, Aidan \| Hillygus, D. Sunshine \| Merhout, Friedolin \| Freelon, Deen \| Volfovsky, Alexander Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 117, issue 1, pages 243-250 (2020). 10.1073/pnas.1906420116 Cited by (109) \| Cite \| Source
Gaussian Mixture Models for Stochastic Block Models with Non-Vanishing Noise (conference) Mathews, Heather \| Mayya, Vaishakhi \| Volfovsky, Alexander \| Reeves, Galen 2019 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP) (2019) Le gosier, Guadeloupe 10.1109/CAMSAP45676.2019.9022612 Cited by (3) \| Cite \| Source
The Geometry of Community Detection via the MMSE Matrix (conference) Reeves, Galen \| Mayya, Vaishakhi \| Volfovsky, Alexander 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (2019) Paris, France 10.1109/ISIT.2019.8849594 Cited by (11) \| Cite \| Source
An Application of Matching After Learning To Stretch (MALTS) to the ACIC 2018 Causal Inference Challenge Data (journal article) Parikh, Harsh \| Rudin, Cynthia \| Volfovsky, Alexander Observational Studies, volume 5, issue 2, pages 118-130 (2019). 10.1353/obs.2019.0006 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization (journal article) Bail, Christopher A. \| Argyle, Lisa P. \| Brown, Taylor W. \| Bumpus, John P. \| Chen, Haohan \| Hunzaker, M. B. Fallin \| Lee, Jaemin \| Mann, Marcus \| Merhout, Friedolin \| Volfovsky, Alexander Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 115, issue 37, pages 9216-9221 (2018). 10.1073/pnas.1804840115 Cited by (772) \| Cite \| Source
Sharp total variation bounds for finitely exchangeable arrays (journal article) Volfovsky, Alexander \| Airoldi, Edoardo M. Statistics & Probability Letters, volume 114 (2016). 10.1016/j.spl.2016.02.013 Cited by (1) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access
Testing for Nodal Dependence in Relational Data Matrices (journal article) Volfovsky, Alexander \| Hoff, Peter D. Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 110, issue 511, pages 1037-1046 (2015). 10.1080/01621459.2014.965777 Cited by (4) \| Cite \| Source \| Open Access

Title	Investigators	Year	Expiration	Amount
Meetings of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability	Mak, Simon \| Volfovsky, Alexander	07-15-2020	06-30-2023	$300,000
Collaborative Research: RAPID: Statistical Tools to Quantify and Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19	Xu, Jason \| Volfovsky, Alexander	05-01-2020	04-30-2021	$171,936
Conferences for New Researchers in Statistics, Probability, and Data Science	Volfovsky, Alexander	06-15-2019	05-31-2021	$182,372
Summer 2018 Causal Inference Workshops	Volfovsky, Alexander	05-15-2018	04-30-2019	$30,000
Meetings of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability	Volfovsky, Alexander	06-15-2016	05-31-2019	$93,000
PostDoctoral Research Fellowship	Volfovsky, Alexander	07-01-2014	06-30-2018	$150,000

Title	Investigators	Year	Cost	Agency
QuBBD: Matching Methods for causaul inference: big data and network	Volfovsky, Alexander	2019	$273,344	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
ConProject-001	Volfovsky, Alexander	2019	$273,344	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
QuBBD: Matching Methods for causaul inference: big data and network	Volfovsky, Alexander	2018	$279,112	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
ConProject-001	Volfovsky, Alexander	2018	$279,112	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
R13 Conference Grant application for the Institute for Mathematical Statistics New Researchers Conference to be held July 26 , 201 8	Volfovsky, Alexander	2018	$10,000	NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Solutions Supplement: Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Complex Data	Volfovsky, Alexander	2018	$98,714	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
QuBBD: Matching Methods for causaul inference: big data and network	Volfovsky, Alexander	2017	$296,252	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING
ConProject-001	Volfovsky, Alexander	2017	$113,420	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING