Yeying Zhu

Yeying Zhu received her BSc in Statistics at East China Normal University in 2006. Then, she went to National University of Singapore for her master degree and later, joined Penn State University in 2008. She graduated with a Ph.D. in 2013. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI) between 2010 and 2011 and a research assistant at the Penn State Methodology Center between 2011 and 2013.

Dr. Zhu’s research interest lies in causal inference, machine learning and the interface between the two. She highly appreciates the interdisciplinary nature of causal inference and aim to develop theoretically sound methods for data-driven problems.