I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where I am advised by Professor Youmi Suk. My research interests lie at the intersection of causal machine learning, dynamic treatment regimes (DTR), and generative AI for synthetic tabular data.
Before pursuing my PhD, I spent nearly a decade at New Oriental Education & Technology Group in Beijing, where I held roles including business manager, instructor, and researcher for the graduate examination department.
🔥 News
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Chenguang was awarded the Morton T. Embree Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Award in recognition of his service as a TA.
- 2025.11: 🎉🎉 Chenguang will give oral presentations in both AERA 2026 and NCME 2026.
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 Three works that Chenguang involved were accepted by SREE 2025 and Chenguang will give an oral and a poster presentation.
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 Chenguang was invited to be a reviewer for 2026 AERA Annual Meeting.
📝 Publications
Journal Papers
- Fair and Robust Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Optimal Policies in Multilevel Studies, Youmi Suk, Chan Park, Chenguang Pan, and Kwangho Kim, Under Review
- Using Generative AI for Sequential Data Generation in Monte Carlo Simulation Studies, Youmi Suk, Chenguang Pan, and Ke Yang. Accepted by Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (JEBS)
Proceedings
Investigating Interpretable Optimal Treatment Regimes Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Chenguang Pan, Yuxuan Li, and Youmi Suk
SREE 2025
Designing Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes Using TMLE for Personalized Math Course-Taking Plans
Chenguang Pan and Youmi Suk
AERA 2025
Improving the Feasibility of Optimal Treatment Regimes for Personalized Education
Yuxuan Li, Chenguang Pan,and Youmi Suk
SREE 2025
Examining the Algorithmic Fairness in Predicting High School Dropouts
Chenguang Pan and Zhou Zhang
Code
EDM 2024
Designing Personalized Math Course-Taking Plans in High School Using Optimal Treatment Regimes
Youmi Suk and Chenguang Pan
SREE 2024
Books
- GRE Text-Completion Essentials: Full Explanations of High-Frequency Questions, Bing Han, Chenguang Pan, and Daiyuan Cheng, published in Chinese.
- An Authentic Word List of High-Frequency GRE Vocabulary, Bing Han and Chenguang Pan, published in Chinese.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025 Morton T. Embree Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Award, Teachers College, Columbia University
- 2025 Provost’s Grant for Conference presentation, Teachers College, Columbia University.
- 2024 Provost’s Grant for Conference presentation, Teachers College, Columbia University.
- 2024 IEDMS Scholarship, EDM Conference 2024, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
- 2023 Doctoral Research Fellowship Award, Teachers College, Columbia University.
- 2017 Outstanding Teacher Award (award rate: 1/400), New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.
🧐 Academic Service
- Reviewer, 2026 American Institute of Research Forum
- Discussant, 3rd Annual Conference of Advanced Quantitative Methods and Analytics for Public Policy Support
- Reviewer, AERA 2026 Annual Meeting
- Reviewer, American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC) 2025
📖 Educations
- 2022.09 - now: Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, U.S.
- 2020.09 - 2021.09: Master of Education in Quantitative Analytics, University of Virginia, VA, U.S.
- 2010.09 - 2024.06: Bachelor of Science in Physics, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China.
💬 Teaching Experiences
- 2025.09 - 2025.12, Teaching Assistance for HUDM 5122 Applied Regression Analysis, Columbia University, NY, U.S.
- 2022.09 - 2022.12, Teaching Assistance for QMSS GR5010 Quantitative Theory in Social Science, Columbia University, NY, U.S.
- 2021.01 - 2021.07, Instructor of Python Programming and Machine Learning, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.
- 2013.01 - 2022.07, Instructor of GRE preparation in verbal and quantitative reasoning (teaching over 7,000 hours for over 10,000 students), New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.
💻 Industry Experiences
- 2018.05 - 2022.08, Deputy Manager of American Graduate Tests Division, Full-time, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.
- 2014.05 - 2018.05, Senior Researcher of GRE Instruction and Curriculum Department, Full-time, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.