Academic Qualification

• Ph.D., Information Systems, The University of Texas at Austin
• M.Sc., Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Academic And Professional Experience

• Assistant 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

Selected Publications

• Yanzhen Chen, Huaxia Rui, and Andrew Whinston, “Tweet to the Top? Social Media Personal Branding and Career Outcomes,” MIS Quarterly, 45, 2, 2021, 499-534
• Yanzhen Chen, Huaxia Rui, and Andrew Whinston, “Conversation Analytics: Can Machines Read between the Lines in Real-Time Strategic Conversations?,” Information Systems Research, 2024
• Arun Rai, Yanzhen Chen, and Yatang Lin, “Exclusion for Public Safety or Inclusion for Gig Employment Opportunity: Managing the Tension with a Trilogy of Guardians,” MIS Quarterly, 2024
• Sunil Mithas, Yanzhen Chen, Chewei Liu and Kunsoo Han, “Are Foreign and Domestic Information Technology Professionals Complements or Substitutes?,” MIS Quarterly, 46, 4, 2022, 2351-2366
• Sunil Mithas, Yanzhen Chen, Yatang Lin, Alysson Oliveira, “On the Causality and Plausibility of Treatment Effects in Operations Management Research,” Production and Operations Management, 31, 12, 2022, 4558-4571
• O.H.M. Padilla, James Sharpnack, Yanzhen Chen, and Daniela Witten, “Adaptive nonparametric regression with the K-nearest neighbour fused lasso,” Biometrika, 107, 2, 2020, 293-310
• O.H.M. Padilla, Wesley Tansey, Yanzhen Chen, “Quantile Regression with Relu Networks: Estimators and Minimax Rates,” Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23, 247, 2022, 1-42.

Service Activities Within College And Profession

• Executive Committee Member, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, 2018-2020
• ISOM Department Search and Appointments Committee, 2019 - 2021
• Guest Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Special Issue on IT-enabled Business Management and Decision Making in (Post) Covid-19 Era
• Best Associate Editor, 2022 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Blockchain Track
• Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2020, 2022, 2024
• Associate Editor, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2024, Blockchain, DLT, and Fintech Track
• Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems (CIST), 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022
• Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2019
• Reviewer, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
• Reviewer, Production and Operations Management
• Reviewer, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Annals of Statistics, and Biometrika

Research Interests

Dr. Yanzhen Chen, Assistant Professor at HKUST, specializes in Emerging Technology, Causal Inference, and Statistical Learning.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her work has been published in top journals such as MIS Quarterly, ISR, and JMLR, and featured in media like Bloomberg and CNBC.  Her presentations at prestigious institutions, such as the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia and the U.S. Department of Treasury, highlight her academic and practical influence.

Honors

• Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence Finalist in 2023
• Dean’s Honor for Excellence in Teaching for ACCT 5801 in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
• Dean’s Honor for Excellence in Teaching for ACCT 3350 in 2021
• ICIS 2016 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin
• First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
• Second Prize, MCM: The Mathematical Contest in Modeling