Presentations

Leveraging language models and machine learning techniques for verbal autopsy analysis

• Computational Demography Working Group Seminar, University of Washington · Seattle, WA · Feb 2026 Invited
• Gates Foundation · Dubai, UAE · May 2025 Invited

AI as Measurement Infrastructure: Adaptive Survey Design in Verbal Autopsy

• Institute for Foundations of Data Science · May 2025 Poster

Automating cause of death classification from verbal autopsy: Using pretrained language models and multimodal learning

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · St. Louis, MO · Apr 2025
• HEALMOD Professional Seminar, The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · Apr 2025

Sufficiency of Information in Population Surveys: Evidence from Verbal Autopsy

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · St. Louis, MO · Apr 2025 Poster

Leveraging machine learning techniques for verbal autopsy analysis

• Demystifying Machine Learning Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Rostock, Germany · Nov 2024

Temporal changes in cause of death among adults in six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa: A multi-country cohort study using verbal autopsy data

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · New Orleans, LA · Apr 2023

Indirect estimation of age-specific fertility and mortality: SVD-Bayes model

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · St. Louis, MO · May 2021
• Hayes Graduate Research Forum · Columbus, OH · Apr 2021 Poster
• TDAI Fall Forum, The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2021

Changes in age at last birth over the course of contemporary fertility declines

Hayford, S., Casterline, J., Chu, Y.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · St. Louis, MO · May 2021

Understanding reporting errors of population survey-based neonatal mortality: A validation study from Guinea-Bissau

Liu, L., Chu, Y., Rodrigues, A., Fisker, A., Helleringer, S.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · Austin, TX · Apr 2019

Global estimates for meningitis-specific mortality

• Meningitis Disease Burden Evaluation Alignment Meeting, World Health Organization and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · Seattle, WA · Nov 2018

Cause-specific mortality rates for fine age groups among children under five

Perin, J., Chu, Y., Schumacher, A., McCormick, T., Liu, L.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · Denver, CO · Apr 2018

China Maternal and Child Health Surveillance System

Liu, L., Chu, Y.

• Global Age Patterns of Under-Five Mortality Project Kickoff Meeting · Philadelphia, PA · Dec 2017

Age-specific child causes of death

Perin, J., Liu, L., Chu, Y.

• IUSSP International Seminar on Mortality: Past, Present and Future · Campinas, Brazil · Aug 2017

Understanding misclassification between neonatal deaths and stillbirths: Empirical evidence from Malawi

Liu, L., Kalter, H., Chu, Y., et al.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · Chicago, IL · Apr 2017
• WHO Informal Technical Consultation on Maternal and Neonatal Deaths and Stillbirths · Geneva, Switzerland · Aug 2016

National and subnational levels and causes of child mortality in China, 1996-2015: Implications for the SDGs

He, C., Liu, L., Chu, Y., et al.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · Chicago, IL · Apr 2017

Estimating national and subnational causes of child deaths using data from the China Maternal and Child Health Surveillance System

He, C., Liu, L., Chu, Y., et al.

• Sixth Child Survival Forum in China · Chengdu, China · Sep 2016
• WHO Informal Technical Consultation on Maternal and Neonatal Deaths and Stillbirths · Geneva, Switzerland · Aug 2016

Global burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children under 5 in the era of PCV: 2000-2015

Wahl, B., O'Brien, K., Greenbaum, A., Chu, Y., et al.

• International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease · Glasgow, Scotland · Jun 2016

Mortality caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children under 5 in India: A state-by-state analysis from 2000 to 2015

Wahl, B., Arora, N., Kapoor, A. N., Chu, Y., et al.

• International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease · Glasgow, Scotland · Jun 2016

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000-2015: Reflecting on MDG 4 and prioritizing for SDG 3.2

Liu, L., Oza, S., Hogan, D., Chu, Y., et al.

• Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America · Washington, DC · Apr 2016

Subnational child cause of death estimation in China

Liu, L., Chu, Y., Black, R.

• UN IGME Technical Advisory Group Bi-annual Meeting · Washington, DC · Dec 2015

Causes of child mortality in 2000-2015: The global picture and current state in Nigeria

Black, R., Liu, L., Chu, Y.

• Nigeria Verbal/Social Autopsy Technical Working Group Meeting · Abuja, Nigeria · Nov 2015

Progress in estimating causes of child mortality in 2000-2015

Liu, L., Oza, S., Chu, Y., et al.

• UN IGME Technical Advisory Group Bi-annual Meeting · New York, NY · May 2015

Progress in estimating causes of death among children aged 1-59 months — Update for 2000-2015

Chu, Y., Liu, L., Black, R.

• Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation Project Review Meeting · Geneva, Switzerland · Apr 2015

Differences in cause-of-death distribution estimates in China: MCMSS vs MCEE

Chu, Y., Liu, L.

• Maternal and Child Epidemiology Estimation Project Review Meeting · Geneva, Switzerland · Apr 2015