- On farm experiment design and analysis
- Adjsuting for mismeasured confounding effect from weather time series for in-season nitrogen fertilizer management
- Bayesian nonpametric estimation of the causal response function
- Decision making with causal response functions
- Widlfire size prediction using spatial nonlinear models
- Gaps in monitoring sites for tracking air pollution from wildfire
Hu, J. K., Trišović, A., Bakshi, A., Braun, D., Dominici, F., & Casey, J. A. (2025). Coexposure to extreme heat, wildfire burn zones, and wildfire smoke in the Western US from 2006 to 2020. Science Advances, 11, eadq6453.
White, G. W., Yamamoto, J. K., Elsyad, D. H., Schmitt, J. F., Korsgaard, N. H., Hu, J. K., Gaines III, G. C., Frescino, T. S., & McConville, K. S. (2025). Small area estimation of forest biomass via a two-stage model for continuous zero-inflated data. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 55, 1–19.
Aggarwal S, Hu JK, Sullivan JA, Parks RM, Nethery RC. Severe flooding and cause-specific hospitalisation among older adults in the USA: a retrospective matched cohort analysis. Lancet Planet Health. 2025 Jul;9(7):101268. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00132-9. Epub 2025 Jul 30. PMID: 40752514; PMCID: PMC12360453.
Hu, J.K., Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J. and Dominici, F. Using negative controls to adjust for unmeasured confounding bias in time series studies. Nature Review Methods Primers 3, 67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-023-00259-2
Hu, J. K., Zorzetto, D., & Dominici, F. A Bayesian Nonparametric Method to Adjust for Unmeasured Confounding with Negative Controls. （2023). arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02631. (Under Revision for American Journal of Epidemiology)
Spangler, K. R., Adams, Q. H., Hu, J. K., Braun, D., Weinberger, K. R., Dominici, F., & Wellenius, G. A. Does Choice of Outdoor Heat Metric Affect Heat-Related Epidemiologic Analyses in the US Medicare Population?.（2023） Environmental Epidemiology 7(4).
Mauricio Tec, Ana Trisovic, Michelle Audirac, Sophie Mirabai Woodward, Jie Kate Hu, Naeem Khoshnevis, Francesca Dominici. SpaCE: The Spatial Confounding Environment. (2024). ICLR arXiv preprint: arXiv 2312.00710
Jie Hu, Norman E. Breslow, Chan Gary, Couper David. “Estimating Disease Hazard Differences from Case-Cohort Studies” [link]European Journal of Epidemiology, Jun, 1-14 (2021).
Norman E. Breslow, Jie Hu, Jon A. Wellner. “Z-estimation and Stratified Samples: Application to Survival Models” [link]
Lifetime Data Analysis, 21, 493-516 (2015).
Norman Breslow and Jie Kate Hu “Survival Analysis of Case-Control Data: A Sample Survey Approach” [link] Handbook of Statistical Methods for Case-Control Studies, Chapman and Hall/CRC, (2018).
“A Z-estimation system for two-phase sampling with applications to additive hazards models and epidemiologic studies”
[link]
PhD Diss.University of Washington ResearchWorks Archive (2014).
Jie Kate Hu , Xianlong Wang, Pei Wang.“Testing Gene-gene Interactions in Genome Wide Association Studies” [link]Genetic Epidemiology, 38, 123-134 (2014).
* Studied definitions of gene-gene interaction; pointed out the flaws in comparison studies of gene-gene interaction testing methods in literature due to variation in definitions; provided conditions of when these tests were comparable
Jie Kate Hu, Gary Chan.“Weights Determination in Generalized Case-Cohort Study”(to submit).
Jie Hu, “A Z-estimation System: A Modular Approach to Model Development”.(to submit)
An R package:
Jie Hu “Fit Additive Hazards Models for Survival Analysis”, CRAN - Package addhazard (2020). [link1] [link2]
[link to A user’s manual]
An R shiny app:
Victoria Ding and Jie Hu Shinyapp Additive Hazards [link]
Zixu Zhao, Melissa Lunden, Jie Kate Hu, Brian Lafranchi, Yutong Liang, Caleb Arata, Erin Katz, Allen H. Goldstein, Haofei Zhang.“Air Pollution Mapping and Machine Learning Reveal Key Factors for Distinct Community-level Exposures in San Francisco, California” submitted to Environmental Science & Technology
Maxwell J.D. VanLandschoot, Julian Schmitte, (mentored by Kelly McConville & Jie Kate Hu)”A Dashboard to Visualize Climate and Tree Species Change – Informing Forestry professionals, Conservationists, and Regulators the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Forests” [link] (2022)
Cardiovascular Disease/Biomarkers hs-CRP and Lp-PLA2:
Looking for collaboration with cardiovascular disease biomarker experts.
Inflammatory Bowel disease:
Afzali Anita, Christopher J. Park, Kehao Zhu, Jie Kate Hu, Prachi Sharma, Mika N. Sinanan, and Scott D. Lee. “Preoperative Use of Methotrexate and the Risk of Early Postoperative Complications in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease” Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 22(8), 1887-95 (2016).
Afzali Anita, Chelle L. Wheat, Jie K. Hu, John E. Olerud, and Scott D. Lee. “The Association of Psoriasiform Rash with anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (anti-TNF) Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Single Academic Center Case Series” Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, 8(6), 480-488 (2014).
Hu, J, Jerkins, J, Goebel, N. Routing Method for Mobile Monitoring Platforms — A scalable sampling method that dispatches a fleet of vehicles to collect environmental data unbiasedly (U. S. Application Serial No.17/332789) [link]
Hu, J & Ladoni, M. (2021) Location Selection for Treatment Sampling —A field Study Design Tool to Optimize Treatment Assignment and Soil Sampling Locations for Model Calibration. (U.S. Patent No. #10,963,606) [link]
Hu, J. (2021). Location Selection for Model Assessment. (U.S. Patent No. #10, 990,716) [link]
Hu, J. System and Method for Modular Design of Statistical Models (U. S. Application Serial No. 18/051,403)
Hu, J & Carrion C. (2022) Using Causal Learning Algorithms to Assist in
Agricultural Management Decisions. (U.S. Patent No. #11,406,053) [link]