February 25 – 27, 2026
In its eighth installment, the Current Innovations in Probability-Based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference expanded its scope to include artificial intelligence (AI) as a new area of focus.
Presentations
The program, including the agenda and speaker bios can be found here. PDF versions and recordings of presentations will be posted on this page as and when available.
Keynotes
On Thursday 26 February, Trent D. Buskirk, Professor and Provost Fellow-Data Science and Professor Biostatistics at the School of Data Science and Joint School of Public Health at Old Dominion University, presented a keynote address titled:
Let’s Not Leave Probability Panels to Chance: Why AI Matters for Their Future
Designing Smarter, More Resilient Probability Panels for the AI Era
On Friday 27 February, Ben Gurga, Acting Executive Director of Analytics, U.S. Social Security Administration, presented a keynote on Virtual Assistants at Social Security.
Scientific Committee
Arie Kapteyn, Tania Gutsche, Livia Montana, Marco Angrisani, and Francisco Perez-Arce (USC Center for Economic and Social Research); and Jan Karem Höhne (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover).
Sponsorship
CIPHER is supported by funding from the Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Aging under grant U01AG077280.
For questions, please email Tarra Kohli (tkohli@usc.edu; d-cipher@usc.edu).