I'm Yan Chen, a 4th-year PhD student in Decision Sciences at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, advised by Professor Alexandre Belloni. I obtained my Master in Statistics from Stanford University in 2018 and my Bachelor in Statistics from Nanjing University Department of Mathematics in 2016. I worked as a data scientist in industry from 2018 to 2022.
Research
Selected Preprints / Working Papers
Compound Estimation for Binomials
, Lihua Lei
Presented at CODE@MIT (Poster) 2025 ·
Causal Data Science Meeting 2025 (Spotlight) ·
2025 Stanford Causal Science Center Conference (Poster)
arxiv
Adversarial Estimation of Assortment Probabilities under Independence Structure
Alexandre Belloni, , Matthew Harding
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings 2025 ·
American Causal Inference Conference 2025 ·
California Econometrics Conference 2024 ·
Midwest Econometrics Group Conference 2024
arxiv
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Testing Fairness with Utility Tradeoffs: A Wasserstein Projection Approach
, Zheng Tan, Jose Blanchet, Hanzhang Qin
arxiv
Market Design for Platform-Mediated Influencer Advertising
, Saša Pekeč
Presented at 2025 EC Frontiers of Online Advertising workshop (Spotlight) ·
2025 MSOM main conference
Online Bin Packing with Load Balancing
Zheng Tan, Hanzhang Qin, , Lindong Liu, Yugang Yu
ssrn
Double Distributionally Robust Bid Shading for First Price Auctions
Yanlin Qu, Ravi Kant, , Brendan Kitts, San Gultekin, Aaron Flores, Jose Blanchet
arxiv
Publications
Optimal Downsampling for Imbalanced Classification with Generalized Linear Models
, Jose Blanchet, Krzysztof Dembczynski, Laura Fee Nern, Aaron Flores
AISTATS 2025
| International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
paper
Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States via Randomized Least Squares Value Iteration
, Qinxun Bai, Yiteng Zhang, Maria Dimakopoulou, Shi Dong, Qi Sun, Zhengyuan Zhou
ICML 2025
| International Conference on Machine Learning
paper
Society of Agents: Regret Bounds of Concurrent Thompson Sampling
, Perry Dong, Qinxun Bai, Maria Dimakopoulou, Wei Xu, Zhengyuan Zhou
NeurIPS 2022
| Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
paper
Talks
January 2026 · Online
video
November 2025 · Stanford, CA
November 2025 · Cambridge, MA
November 2025 · Online
October 2025 · Atlanta, GA
August 2025 · Nashville, TN
July 2025 · Columbia University, NYC
May 2025 · Detroit, MI
November 2024 · Lexington, KY
October 2024 · Seattle, WA
September 2024 · UC Davis, CA
October 2023 · Phoenix, AZ
August 2023 · Online
November 2022 · New Orleans, LA
October 2022 · Indianapolis, IN
Teaching
Master of Quantitative Management, Fuqua School of Business
Teaching evaluation: 5.0 / 5.0
Duke Undergraduate
Master of Quantitative Management, Fuqua School of Business
Master of Quantitative Management, Fuqua School of Business
Activities
Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Appointed by Associate Dean for Graduate Programs · Fall 2023 – Spring 2024