Generative AI and Entrepreneurship: A Spatial Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach
Invited talk at STAI-X ’26: Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross (X)-Domain Acceleration, Harvard University, 2026
AI as ‘Co-founder’: GenAI for Entrepreneurship
Invited talk at Chinese Economy Society Annual Meeting, Emory University, 2026
Poisson-MNL Bandit: Nearly Optimal Dynamic Joint Assortment and Pricing with Decision-Dependent Customer Arrivals
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Boston, 2026
Invited talk at ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting, Ithaca, 2024
Doubly High-Dimensional Contextual Bandits: An Interpretable Model with Applications to Assortment and Pricing
Invited talk at Quantitative Methods Seminar, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University, 2025
Invited talk at Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting (POMS), Atlanta, 2025
Invited talk at 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Business Analytics, New Haven, 2024
Invited talk at Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting (POMS), Minneapolis, 2024
Invited talk at The 15th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT), Berlin, 2023
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Toronto, 2023
Invited talk at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM), Montreal, 2023
Personalized Reinforcement Learning
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Toronto, 2026
Invited talk at IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Seville, 2025
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS), Seattle, 2024
Invited talk at Statistics Empowering Data Science (SEEDS) Conference, Los Angeles, 2023
Invited talk at IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Lisbon, 2023
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS), Phoenix, 2023
Centralization or Decentralization? The Evolution of State-Ownership in China
Invited talk at The Arc of Chinese Economy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2022
Invited talk at China International Conference in Finance (CICF), Virtual, 2021
Equity Ownership Network and Supervised Centrality Estimation
Invited talk at IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Florence, 2022
Invited talk at The 14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT), London, 2022
Network Regression and Supervised Centrality Estimation
Invited talk at Young Scholars Conference on Machine Learning in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2021
Invited talk at Statistics department seminar, George Mason University (joint with Linda Zhao), 2021
Invited talk at The 14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT), London, 2021
Semi-Supervised Centrality Estimation and Network Prediction
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Virtual, 2021
Ownership Network and Firm Growth: What do Forty Million Companies Tell about the Chinese Economy?
Invited talk at The Sixth Network Science in Economics Conference, Virtual, 2021
Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation and Testing for Sparse and Heteroscedastic Signals
Invited talk at The 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMSTAT), London, 2019
Innovation and Equity Holding Network
Invited talk at Workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property: Firm Strategies and Policy Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World, Beijing, 2019
Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Methods for Sparse and Noisy Signals
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Denver, 2019
Invited talk at The Fourth Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI-4) (represented Linda Zhao), Washington University of St. Louis, 2019
Invited talk at The International Chinese Statistical Association Conference (ICSA), Chicago, 2017
Generalized Cp and a Predictive Model Selection Test in Assumption-Lean Framework
Invited talk at The International Chinese Statistical Association Conference (ICSA), Naikai University, Tianjin, 2019
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Vancouver, 2018
Invited talk at The Third Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI-3) (joint with Linda Zhao), Washington University of St. Louis, 2018
Invited talk at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Baltimore, 2017
Invited talk at Workshop on Chinese Firm-level Data, Beijing, 2017
