Mingzhang Yin

Mingzhang Yin

Assistant Professor

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Contact details

University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Marketing Department
Stuzin Hall 260

Bio

Mingzhang Yin is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. His primary research focuses on the areas of probabilistic machine learning, Bayesian methods, causal inference, with a focus on applications in online marketing, advertising, user generated content, and data-driven consumer analysis. 

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

  • Individual Work (MAR6905)
  • Marketing Analytics 2 (MAR6669)
  • Supervised Research (MAR6910)

PhD students advised Last 3 years

  • Hye Rin Kim — 2024 — 2025
  • Zhiyu Zhang — 2024 — 2025

Professional service Last 5 years

  • Associate Editor, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics — 2024 to 2025
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Israel Science Foundation — 2025
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Machine Learning Research — 2023 to 2024
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems — 2024
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of the American Statistical Association — 2024
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Production and Operations Management — 2024
  • Associate Editor, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics — 2023
  • 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

  • Confounding-Robust Deferral Policy Learning
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2025
    Authors: Ruijiang Gao, Mingzhang Yin
  • SEL-BALD: Deep Bayesian Active Learning with Selective Labels
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2024
    Authors: Ruijiang Gao, Mingzhang Yin, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
  • Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2024
    Authors: Mingyuan Zhou, Huangjie Zheng, Mingzhang Yin, Zhendong Wang, Hai Huang
  • Probabilistic Conformal Prediction Using Conditional Random Samples
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2023
    Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Zhendong Wang, Ruijiang Gao, David Blei, Mingyuan Zhou
  • Partial Identification with Noisy Covariates: A Robust Optimization Approach
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2022
    Author: Mingzhang Yin
  • A Theoretical Case Study of Structured Variational Inference for Community Detection
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2020
    Author: Mingzhang Yin
  • Discrete Action On-Policy Learning with Action-Value Critic
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2020
    Author: Mingzhang Yin
  • Meta-Learning without Memorization
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2020
    Author: Mingzhang Yin
  • Pairwise Supervised Hashing with Bernoulli Variational Auto-Encoder and Self-Control Gradient Estimator
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2020
    Author: Mingzhang Yin

Journal article publications Last 5 years

  • Unraveling Multifaceted User Preferences on Content Platforms: A Bayesian Deep Learning Approach
    Status: 1st Revise and Resubmit
    Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Ziwei Cong, Jia Liu
  • Probabilistic Machine Learning: New Frontiers for Modeling Consumers and their Choice
    Status: Published
    Journal: International Journal of Research in Marketing
    Published Year: 2024
    Authors: Ryan Dew, Mingzhang Yin
  • Adjusting Regression Models for Conditional Uncertainty Calibration
    Status: Published
    Journal: Machine Learning
    Published Year: 2024
    Authors: Ruijiang Gao, Mingzhang Yin, James Mcinerney, Nathan Kallus
  • Optimization-based Causal Estimation from Heterogenous Environments
    Status: Published
    Journal: Journal of Machine Learning Research
    Accepted Year: 2024
    Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei
  • Nonparametric Discrete Choice Experiments with Machine Learning Guided Adaptive Design
    Status: Accepted
    Published Year: 2023
    Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Ruijiang Gao, Weiran Lin, Steven Shugan
  • Gradient Estimation for Binary Latent Variables via Gradient Variance Clipping
    Status: Published
    Journal: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Published Year: 2023
    Authors: Russell Kunes, Mingzhang Yin, Max Land, Doron Haviv, Dana Pe’er, Simon Tavare
  • Conformal Sensitivity Analysis for Individual Treatment Effects
    Status: Published
    Journal: Journal of the American Statistical Association
    Published Year: 2022
    Authors: Mingzhang Yin, Yixin Wang, David Blei