About Me

Wendao Xue is an incoming Assistant Professor at the Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology at CUHK Business School. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington. 

Her research focuses on Causal AI, data analytics, and healthcare. In particular, she studies Causal AI from three angles: exploring new opportunities to use AI/ML to improve causal inference methods; identifying challenges in current applications of AI/ML to causal inference; and investigating innovative applications of AI. She is interested in applying novel data-analytic methods to identify and solve challenging, practical problems that benefit businesses, health care, and society. She is developing an ongoing research agenda on the impact of generative AI in business and organizations. Her research methods include machine learning, causal inference, econometrics, and lab experiments.