Yuxin Zhang
Assistant Professor of Technology, Information Systems and Analytics
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yuxin_zhang@wayne.edu
Mike Ilitch School of Business
2771 Woodward Avenue
Room 434
Detroit, MI 48201
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Biography
Assistant Professor, Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University, 2020/08 - Present
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Ph.D., Information, Risk, and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
M.A., Statistics, Columbia University (2012)
B.Sc., Mathematics, Peking University (2010)ManagementBusiness Analytics, Risk Management, Digital Responsibility, and Policy Analytics.
Published and accepted peer reviewed journal articles
Zhang, Y., Garg, R., Golden, L., Brockett, P., and Sharma, A. 2024. "Segmenting Bitcoin Transactions for Direction of Price Movement Prediction". Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 17(3):128.
Zhang, Y., Du, Y., Zhang, Y., and Zhang, Q. 2023. "Moral Hazard and Transparency in Peer-to-Peer Auto Insurance with Telematics". ICIS 2023 Proceedings, 19.
Zhang, Y., and Xu, D. 2023. "Who joins which network, and why?" Social Network Analysis and Mining. 13, 127
Zhang, Y., and Xu, D. 2023. "Service on the rise, agriculture and manufacturing in decline: The labor market effects of high-speed rail services in Spain". Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 171: 103617.
Zhang, Y., and Xu, D. 2022. "The bus is arriving: Population growth and public transportation ridership in rural America". Journal of Rural Studies. 95: 467-474.
Xu, D., and Zhang, Y. 2022. "Immigrants’ language skills and carpooling as need-based social networking: Evidence from large-scale national survey data". Travel Behaviour and Society. 29: 236-245.
Xu, D., and Zhang, Y. 2022. "Identifying Ethnic Occupational Segregation". Journal of Population Economics. 35: 1261–1296.
Zhang, Y., and Brockett, P. 2020. "Modeling Stochastic Mortality for Joint Lives through Subordinators". Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. 95: 166-172.
Articles under review
Zhang, Y., Garg, R., Brockett, P., and Golden, L. "Disaster Analytics for Rapid Relief Fund Allocation: an Iterative Damage Estimation Framework". (second round, Information System Research)
Zhang, Y., and Xu, D. "From Regulation to Discrimination: the Unintended Consequences of the IP Region Display Policy in Online Communities". (second round, Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS))
Working paper
Chen, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y., and Zhang, Q. "Safer Roads Being a Byproduct: Impacts of a User Engagement Promotion in Telematics on Driving Safety".
Book chapter
Brockett, P., and Zhang, Y. 2021. "Actuarial (Mathematical) Modeling of Human Mortality". Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences, Springer.
Courses taught
Winter Term 2025 (future)
Fall Term 2024 (current)
Winter Term 2023
Fall Term 2022