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
Conference Proceeding Publications
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Probabilistic Conformal Prediction Using Conditional Random Samples
Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2023Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Zhendong Wang, Ruijiang Gao, David Blei, Mingyuan Zhou
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A Theoretical Case Study of Structured Variational Inference for Community Detection
Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
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Meta-Learning without Memorization
Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
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ARM: Augment-REINFORCE-Merge Gradient for Stochastic Binary Networks
Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2019Author: Mingzhang Yin
Last 5 years
Journal Article Publications
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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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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