Yuan Yuan
Assistant Professor
Management Information Systems
Education
Ph.D., Social & Engineering Systems & Statistics, MIT, 2021
B.Eng., Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 2016
B.A., Economics, Tsinghua University, 2016
Journal Articles
- Yuan Yuan, Tracy Xiao Liu, Chenhao Tan, Qian Chen, Alex `Sandy' Pentland, and Jie Tang (2023). Gift contagion in online groups: Evidence from virtual red packets. accepted at Management Science,
- Ding Lyu, Yuan Yuan, Lin Wang, Xiaofan Wang, Alex Pentland (2022). Investigating and modeling the dynamics of long ties. Communications Physics (Nature), | Related Website |
- Yuan Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem & Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland (2018). An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents. Nature Communications, | Related Website | Download |
Conference Proceedings
- Yongkang Guo, Yuan Yuan, Jinshan Zhang, Yuqing Kong, Zhihua Zhu, Zheng Cai (2023). Near-Optimal Experimental Design Under the Budget Constraint in Online Platforms. Web Conference (WWW),
- Yuan, Yuan, Kristen Altenburger, & Farshad Kooti (2021). Causal Network Motifs: Identifying Heterogeneous Spillover Effects in A/B Tests.. Web Conference (WWW), | Related Website | Download |
Lasting Ties: Examining the Stability of Social Bridges
Your long ties, or “social bridges,” are essential for diffusing novel information across different communities. Long ties are actually very persistent and may get even stronger over time.
Full story: Lasting Ties: Examining the Stability of Social Bridges
Contact
yuanyuan@purdue.edu
Office: KRAN 709
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Area(s) of Expertise
social networks, causal inference, experimental design, machine learning