Short Bio
Xinyi Zhao is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her bachelor’s degree with honor in School of Economics and Management from Tsinghua University. Xinyi’s research lies on online platform incentives, operations and finance interface, and assortment data analytics. During her academic employment, teaching and working experience, recently she has been interested in applying business insights from empirical data and interpretable machine learning techniques to improve business decision-making. In her spare time, Xinyi participates as actress in several films and operas. She enjoys hiking, traveling, photography and exploring the future.
Education
- B.S. in School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 2013-2017
- Ph.D in Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 2017-2022 (expected)
Skills
- MatLab
- R
- Python