Prof. Yanzhen CHEN
Assistant Professor, Information Systems imyanzhen@ust.hk




Academic qualification
PhD 2017 The University of Texas at Austin, Information Systems
MFin 2012 Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Finance
BBA 2010 Nankai University, Financial Management

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssistant Professor, Dept of ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2017-present
Instructor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Chen, Y., Rui, H., and Whinston, A.B., “Tweet to the Top? Social Media Personal Branding and Career Outcomes,”MIS Quarterly, 45, 2, 2021, 499-534
Padilla, O.H.M., Sharpnack, J., Chen, Y., and Witten, D.M., “Adaptive nonparametric regression with the K-nearest neighbour fused lasso,”Biometrika, 107, 2, 2020, 293-310

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SERVICE ACTIVITIES WITHIN COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONConference Program Committee Member: Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2017
Conference Reviewer: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST)
Journal Reviewer: Internet Research, 2016/2017 Impact Factor : 2.931

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Chen’s research focuses on artificial intelligence in transforming financial analytics and gaining greater insights. Her current projects include empirical studies on corporate finance and behavior asset pricing. She conducts research from a combined theoretical and empirical perspective, where she uses theories from IS, game theory and financial economics to understand people's behavior. She validates these theories by applying econometric, Bayesian statistics and machine learning methods to big data.

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HONORSICIS 2016 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin
First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 1.49%)
Second Prize, Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 6.43%)