I’m currently an associate 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, JMIS 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. I am also the recipient of the INFORMS Information Systems Society Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award. For the trivia lovers out there, I’ve somehow ended up with an Erdős number of 3.
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Yanzhen Chen and Sunil Mithas. Do Affirmative Action Policies Reduce the Female Wage Gap for Information Technology Professionals? Evidence from India, forthcoming at MIS Quarterly
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Yanzhen Chen, Che-Wei Liu and Ming-Hui Wen. Alert for Alerts: How Investment Price Tracking Alerts Affect Retail Investors. Media Coverage by CNBC Pro, Media Coverage by wealthmanagement.com, forthcoming at MIS Quarterly
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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, 42.3 (2025).
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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, 36.1 (2024). Media Coverage by Medium, Innovative Method Award, This IS Research Podcast, 2025
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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).
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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)
- Allen Kei, Jialiang Li, Hangjian Li, Yanzhen Chen, O.H.M Padilla. Change Point Detection in Dynamic Graphs with Decoder-only Latent Space Model. Forthcoming at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
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Allen Kei, Hangjian Li, Yanzhen Chen, and O.H.M Padilla. Change Point Detection on A Separable Model for Dynamic Networks. Forthcoming at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
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Siwei Ye, Yanzhen Chen, and O.H.M Padilla. 2D Score-Based Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects.” Journal of Causal Inference 11. 1 (2023).
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O.H.M Padilla, 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.
- O.H.M Padilla, James Sharpnack, Yanzhen Chen, Daniela Witten. Adaptive Non-Parametric Regression With the K-NN Fused Lasso. Biometrika, 107.2 (2020). PDF. Code.