Mingzhang Yin is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Warrington College of Business of University of Florida. His primary research interests are in the intersection of quantitative marketing, Bayesian statistics, probabilistic machine learning, and causal inference. He develops methodologies for probabilistic models, approximate Bayesian inference, and observational studies. He explores marketing applications in online advertisement, personalization, E-commerce and data-driven consumer analysis.
About
Education
- PhD - Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020
- BSc - Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, 2015
Research Interests
- Probabilistic machine learning
- Marketing Analytics
- Unstructured data in E-commerce
- Bayesian Methods
- Causal Inference
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Last 3 years
Courses Taught
- Marketing Analytics 2 (MAR6669)
Last 5 years
Professional Service
- Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference — 2023 to 2024
- Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Machine Learning Research — 2023 to 2024
- Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Annals of Applied Statistics — 2023
- Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems — 2023
- Session Chair, International Chinese Statistical Association — 2023
Last 5 years
Conference Proceeding Publications
Last 5 years
Journal Article Publications
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Optimization-based Causal Estimation from Heterogenous Environments
Status: AcceptedAccepted Year: 2024Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei
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Unraveling Multifaceted User Preferences on Content Platforms: A Bayesian Deep Learning Approach
Status: Working PaperAuthors: Mingzhang Yin, Ziwei Cong, Jia Liu
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Nonparametric Discrete Choice Experiments with Machine Learning Guided Adaptive Design
Status: AcceptedPublished Year: 2023Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Ruijiang Gao, Weiran Lin, Steven Shugan
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Gradient Estimation for Binary Latent Variables via Gradient Variance Clipping
Status: PublishedJournal: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial IntelligencePublished Year: 2023Authors: Russell Kunes, Mingzhang Yin, Max Land, Doron Haviv, Dana Pe’er, Simon Tavare
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Conformal Sensitivity Analysis for Individual Treatment Effects
Status: PublishedJournal: Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublished Year: 2022Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei
Contact Details
University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Marketing Department
Stuzin Hall 260
(352) 273-3274