Chaofan Zhai

POSITIONS/EMPLOYMENT

Instructor

• IDSC 4444 (undergrad core): Descriptive and Predictive Analytics (Fall 2023)
  • Instructor evaluation: 5.61 / 6; Course evaluation: 5.47 / 6; Response ratio: 100%

• IDSC 4444 (undergrad core): Descriptive and Predictive Analytics (Spring 2023)

  • Received 2022-2023 Carlson School of Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award
  • Instructor evaluation: 5.53 / 6; Course evaluation: 5.36 / 6; Response ratio: 74.42%

Teaching Assistance & Research Assistance

• CMBA 5832 (EMBA): Advanced Management Topic Elective: Business Analytics for Competitive Advantage (Spring 2023)
• MABA 6431 (MA): Advanced Topics in Business Analytics (Fall 2022, Fall 2021)
• MSBA 6430 (MS): Advanced Issues in Business Analytics (Summer 2022, Summer 2021)
• IDSC 4110 (undergrad): Data Engineering for Business Analytics (Fall 2020)
• Research Assistant for Information and Decision Sciences Department (since September 2020)

HONORS AND AWARDS

University of Minnesota

• 2022-2023 Carlson School of Management Ph.D. Student Teaching Award (August 2023)
• Ph.D. Student Conference/Travel Fellowship (2020 – Now)
• Carlson and Willoughby IDS Ph.D. Fellowship (2020 – Now)
• Ph.D. Student Summer Research Fellowship (2020 – Now)

Working Papers 

• Chaofan Zhai, Yicheng Song, Ravi Bapna, "An Advanced Deep-Learning Technique for Efficient Knowledge Retention" (invited) Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Minneapolis, 2024.
• Chaofan Zhai, Amit Mehra, Ravi Bapna, "Cashback and Certification Strategies in Online Education" Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST). Indianapolis, 2022. 
• Chaofan Zhai, Sofia Bapna, Connie Wanberg, Ravi Bapna, "AI in Organization: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in India" 
• Chaofan Zhai, Xuan Bi, Angela Aerry Choi, Chad Yi-Chun Ho, "An Advanced Recommender System for Influencer Economy"
• Chaofan Zhai, Xuan Bi, Mochen Yang, "A Novel Stackelberg Game to Under the Incentivization of Federated Learning" INFORMS Annual Conference. Indianapolis, 2022.