Mochen Yang

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

My main research revolves around the topic of algorithmic decision-making and consists of three connected streams. In the first stream of work, I study the problem of designing theoretically robust and computationally efficient algorithms and strategies to support decision-making in information-intensive marketplaces. In the second stream of work, I examine the antecedents of algorithmic decision-making as well as its impact on decision quality, fairness, and privacy. In the third stream of work, I design novel approaches to draw robust statistical inference with variables generated by machine learning algorithms.

Before joining Carlson, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. My dissertation studies the user-generated content and associated user engagement behavior on company-managed social media pages. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Management from the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.