Bio
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.
Expertise and interest areas
Education All years
- PhD - Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020
- BSc - Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, 2015
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Courses taught Last 3 years
- Marketing Analytics 2 (MAR6669)
Professional service Last 5 years
- 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
Conference proceeding publications Last 5 years
- Probabilistic Conformal Prediction Using Conditional Random Samples Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2023Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Zhendong Wang, Ruijiang Gao, David Blei, Mingyuan Zhou
- Partial Identification with Noisy Covariates: A Robust Optimization Approach Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2022Author: Mingzhang Yin
- A Theoretical Case Study of Structured Variational Inference for Community Detection Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
- Discrete Action On-Policy Learning with Action-Value Critic Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
- Meta-Learning without Memorization Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
- Pairwise Supervised Hashing with Bernoulli Variational Auto-Encoder and Self-Control Gradient Estimator Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2020Author: Mingzhang Yin
- ARSM: AugmentREINFORCE-Swap-Merge Estimator for Gradient Backpropagation Through Categorical Variables Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2019Author: Mingzhang Yin
- ARM: Augment-REINFORCE-Merge Gradient for Stochastic Binary Networks Status: PublishedPublished Year: 2019Author: Mingzhang Yin
Journal article publications Last 5 years
- Optimization-based Causal Estimation from Heterogenous Environments Status: AcceptedAccepted Year: 2024Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei
- Unraveling Multifaceted User Preferences on Content Platforms: A Bayesian Deep Learning Approach Status: Working PaperAuthors: Mingzhang Yin, Ziwei Cong, Jia Liu
- Nonparametric Discrete Choice Experiments with Machine Learning Guided Adaptive Design Status: AcceptedPublished Year: 2023Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Ruijiang Gao, Weiran Lin, Steven Shugan
- 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
- Conformal Sensitivity Analysis for Individual Treatment Effects Status: PublishedJournal: Journal of the American Statistical AssociationPublished Year: 2022Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei
Contact and other resources
University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Marketing Department
Stuzin Hall 260
(352) 273-3274