Publications

* These authors contributed equally to the manuscript.

Statistical Research

1. Miao, R., Babak, S., and Qu, A. (2025+) Reinforcement Learning for Individual Optimal Policy from Heterogeneous Data. Annals of Statistics. To Appear [Preprint]

2. Qi, Z*., Miao, R.*, and Zhang, X. (2024). Proximal Learning for Individualized Treatment Regimes under Unmeasured Confounding. Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods). [DOI] [Copy]

3. Miao, R., Zhang, X., and Wong, R. K. W. (2023). A Wavelet-Based Independence Test for Functional Data with an Application to MEG Functional Connectivity. Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods).
   2021 ICSA Student Paper Award. [DOI] [Copy]

4. Miao, R., Qi, Z., and Zhang, X. (2022). Off-Policy Evaluation for Episodic Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes under Non-Parametric Models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). [DOI]

5. Miao, R., Xue, W., and Zhang, X. (2022). Average Treatment Effect Estimation in Observational Studies with Functional Covariates. Statistics and Its Interface. [DOI] [Copy]

Manuscripts

1. Miao, R., Qi, Z., Shi, C., and Lin, L. (2025+) Personalized pricing with invalid instrumental variables: Identification, estimation, and policy learning. R & R by Operations Research [Preprint]

Cross-Disciplinary Research

1. Lee, N., Miao, R., and Young, N. S. (2025+). Reframing—Renaming(?)—MDS and CHIP. Leukemia. To Appear

2. Ramos-Benitez, M. J., Miao, R., …, Strich, J. R. (2025+). SPD and CC16 as Biomarkers of Disease Severity and Fostamatinib Efficacy in Severe COVID-19. Critical Care Exploration. To Appear

3. Wigerblad, G, …, Miao, R., … (2023) Spleen tyrosine kinase inhibition restores myeloid homeostasis in COVID-19. Science Advances

4. Rogers, T., Greenbaum, A. B., Babaliaros, V. C., Foerst, J. R., Khan, J. M., Bruce, C., Stine, A. M., Satler, L. F., Perdoncin, E., Gleason, P. T., Lisko, J. C., Tian, X., Miao, R., Sachdev, V., Chen, M. Y., and Lederman, R. J. (2022). Transcatheter Mitral Cerclage Ventriculoplasty: From Bench to Beside. JACC: Cardiovascular Intervention

5. Domanski, M. J., Wu, C. O., Tian, X., Hasan, A., Ma, X., Huang, Y., Miao, R., Reis, J. P., Bae, S., Husain, A., J. Jr., D. R., Allen, N. B., Lee, M.-L. T., Hong, C. C., Farkouh, M., Lloyd-Jones, D. M., and Fuster, V. (2023). Association of Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Cumulative Exposure to Multiple Risk Factors. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Manuscripts

1. Domanski, M. J., …, Miao, R., …, Fuster, V. (2025+). Association of Race with Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Stroke. Major Revision by JACC: Advances

2. Zhu, F., Shearer, J. J., Joo, J., Miao, R., Wong, J. Y. Y., Goodney, G., Lim, J., Hashemian, M., …, Roger., V. L. (2025+). Sleep quality and outcomes in preclinical heart failure: a prospective UK Biobank cohort study. Submitted to JAMA: Cardiology

3. Lim, J., Chang, C., White, A. J., Lo, S., Wang, H., Goodney, G., Miao, R., …, Wong, J. Y. Y. (2025+). Personal care product use and risk of adult-onset asthma: prospective cohort analyses of U.S. women from the Sister Study. Submitted to Environment International

4. Allen, K. C., Warner, S., Teague, H. L., Ramos-Benitez, M., Miao, R.,… and Strich, J. (2025+). SARS-CoV-2 Immune Complex Mediated Neutrophil Activation. Submitted to Open Forum Infectious Disease