Wanning Chen

Wanning Chen

Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management

University of Washington Foster School of Business

Hello there! Thank you for visiting my website. I am currently an assistant professor at University of Washington Foster School of Business in the Department of Information Systems & Operations Management.

I completed my Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Technology from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2022, under the supervision of Professor Mohsen Bayati.

My research focuses on developing statistical methodology for data-driven decision making. In particular, I design novel machine learning algorithms for problems where the underlying data has a natural matrix structure.

Previously, I graduated magna cum laude from Pomona College in 2016 with a BA in Mathematics, under the supervision of Professor Vin de Silva for my thesis.

Experience & Education

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management
University of Washington
July 2022 – Present Seattle, Washington

Research interests:

  • Matrix-shaped data
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Online experimentation
  • Causal machine learning
 
 
 
 
 
Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Technology
Stanford Graduate School of Business
September 2016 – June 2022 Stanford, California
Thesis: Decision-Making under Matrix-Shaped Data
 
 
 
 
 
B.A. in Mathematics
Pomona College
September 2012 – May 2016 Claremont, California
Thesis: Exploring the Properties of Maximally Even Sets via Lens of Partially Ordered Set
 
 
 
 
 
Study Abroad
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
August 2014 – December 2014 Budapest, Hungary

Teaching

Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • OIT 367 (MBA core), Business Intelligence from Big Data, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • OIT 604 (PhD seminar), Data, Learning, and Decision-Making, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • Math 187 (Undergraduate), Operations Research, Spring 2016, Pomona College.
  • Math 113 (Undergraduate), Number Theory & Cryptography, Spring 2016, Pomona College.
  • Math 151 (Undergraduate), Probability, Spring 2014, Pomona College.
  • Math 60 (Undergraduate), Linear Algebra, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Pomona College.