I’m currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management department at HKUST. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. My research interests lie in the future of labor markets, FinTech, health IT, and statistical learning. My work has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, ISR, and POM, and has also been highlighted by Bloomberg Businessweek and CNBC Professional. I’ve had the opportunity to present my research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of Treasury. Additionally, I have contributed methodological work to leading journals in machine learning and statistics, including Biometrika and JMLR. For the trivia lovers out there, I’ve somehow ended up with an Erdős number of 3.
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Sijia Zhou, Yanzhen Chen and Xin Li. The Impact of Non-Diagnostic Digital Services on Online Healthcare Consultation. forthcoming at Journal of Management Information Systems
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Yanzhen Chen, Huaxia Rui, Andrew Whinston. Conversation Analytics: Can Machines Read between the Lines in Real-Time Strategic Conversations?. Information Systems Research, 2024 May 8. Media Coverage by Medium
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Arun Rai, Yanzhen Chen and Yatang Lin. Exclusion for Public Safety or Inclusion for Gig Employment: Managing the Tension with a Trilogy of Guardians, MIS Quarterly 48.8 (2024). Code.
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Sunil Mithas, Yanzhen Chen, Chewei Liu, Kunsoo Han. Are foreign and domestic information technology professionals complements or substitutes?, MIS Quarterly 46.4 (2022).
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Sunil Mithas, Yanzhen Chen, Yatang Lin, Alysson Oliveira. On Causality and Plausibility of Treatment Effects in Operations Management Research, Production and Operations Management 31.12 (2022): 4558-4571.
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Yanzhen Chen, Huaxia Rui, Andrew Whinston. Tweet To the Top? Social Media Personal Branding and Career Outcomes. MIS Quarterly, 45.2 (2021).A Non-Technical Video, Media Coverage by Bloomberg, Media Coverage by AAAS, Media Coverage by South China Morning Post, Another Media Coverage by SCMP and Media Coverage in Chinese (香港经济日报)
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Allen Kei, Jialiang Li, Hangjian Li, Yanzhen Chen, Oscar Madrid. Change Point Detection in Dynamic Graphs with Decoder-only Latent Space Model. Forthcoming at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
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Siwei Ye, Yanzhen Chen, and Oscar Madrid. 2D Score-Based Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects.” Journal of Causal Inference 11. 1 (2023).
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Oscar Madrid, Wesley Tansey, Yanzhen Chen. Quantile regression with ReLU Networks: Estimators and minimax rates. Journal of Machine Learning Research 23.247 (2022): 1-42. PDF. Code.
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Oscar Madrid, James Sharpnack, Yanzhen Chen, Daniela Witten. Adaptive Non-Parametric Regression With the K-NN Fused Lasso. Biometrika, 107.2 (2020). PDF. Code.
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Theme-based Research Scheme (HK$20,659,000), Contributing to the Development of Hong Kong into a Global Fintech Hub, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018-2022
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An Interactive Web-Based playground for Instant Trials and Analytics in Blockchain-related Courses (HK$300,000), Teaching and Learning Innovation Projects, 2025-2026
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HKUST-WeBank Joint Lab Project (HK $750,360), Programmatic Advertising Retargeting and AI Customer Service, 2019-2023
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The Hidden Dynamics:Collusion Between Sell-Side Analysts and Fund Managers, National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72472171) (卖方分析师与基金经理利益互换的实现机制与经济后果)