Ying Zhu
Education: PhD, U.C. Berkeley; MA, U.C. Berkeley; MS, M.I.T.; BA, Carroll College, MT
Employment: Assistant Professor of Economics at UCSD (current), Assistant Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette (previous)
Research Fields: Theoretical Statistics, Integration of Economic Theory, Machine Learning, and Operations Research
Research Interests: High-Dimensional Estimation and Inference, Nonasymptotic Statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Learning, Data Based Robust Mechanism Design
Publications and Accepted Papers
Omitted Variable Bias of Lasso-Based Inference Methods: A Finite Sample Analysis by Kaspar Wuthrich, Ying Zhu (alphabetical author ordering) - Accepted for publication in The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Inference in Approximately Sparse Correlated Random Effects Probit Models with Panel Data by Jeffrey Wooldridge, Ying Zhu (alphabetical author ordering) - The Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020
Rejoinder to “Debiased Inference of Average Partial Effects in Single-Index Models: Comment on Wooldridge and Zhu” by Hirshberg, D and Wager, S by Jeffrey Wooldridge, Ying Zhu (alphabetical author ordering) - The Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020
High Dimensional Inference in Partially Linear Models by Ying Zhu, Zhuqing Yu, Guang Cheng, AISTATS 2019
Sparse Linear Models and l1-Regularized 2SLS with High-Dimensional Endogenous Regressors and Instruments {Additional materials from 2013} by Ying Zhu - The Journal of Econometrics, 2018
Nonasymptotic Analysis of Semiparametric Regression Models with High-Dimensional Parametric Coefficients by Ying Zhu - The Annals of Statistics, 2017
Nonparametric Density Estimation Based on Truncated Mean by Ying Zhu - Statistics and Probability Letters, 2013
Working Papers
Information-theoretic limitations of data-based price discrimination by Haitian Xie, Ying Zhu, Denis Shishkin (Xie and Zhu contributed equally)
Phase transitions in nonparametric regressions by Ying Zhu
Classes of ODE Solutions: Smoothness, Covering Numbers, Implications for Noisy Function Fitting, and a "Loss of Smoothness" Phenomenon by Ying Zhu, Mozhgan Mirzaei (resting paper that is not under review)
Statistical Inference and Feasibility Determination: A Nonasymptotic Approach by Ying Zhu
PhD Dissertation
Endogenous Econometric Models and Multi-Stage Estimation in High-Dimensional Settings: Theory and Applications - University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2015
PhD Dissertation Committee Chairs: James Powell (Economics), J. Miguel Villas-Boas (Haas School of Business)
PhD Dissertation Committee Members: Martin Wainwright (Statistics and EECS), Ganesh Iyer (Haas School of Business), Przemyslaw Jeziorski (Haas School of Business), Demian Pouzo (Economics)
M.S. Thesis
Evaluating Airline Delays: The Role of Airline Networks, Schedules, and Passenger Demands - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb. 2009, supervised by Cynthia Barnhart