Yuan Yuan

Yuan Yuan is a computational social scientist and an assistant professor at the Krannert School of Management (MIS area) at Purdue University. He is also a research fellow of the MIT Connection Science and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research focuses on (1) leveraging big data and advanced computational techniques (e.g., machine learning and causal inference) to study online social interactions and social networks; and (2) developing computational techniques that combine machine learning and causal inference, with applications to online field experiments (a.k.a A/B testing). Before coming to Purdue, he did my Ph.D. in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Tsinghua University.