Research Interests

• Social Networks / Platform Economy

• Online Word-of-Mouth

• Artificial Intelligence in Business

• Quantitative Asset Pricing

• Distribution Uncertainty / Ambiguity

Education

2020 - Ph.D.    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2017 - Mphil.  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2015 - B.S.      Tsinghua University

Working Experience

09/2020 - Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

Honors & Awards

Innovation Research Award of China Information Economics Society (2022)

Selected Publications

• Lu, T., Yuan, M., Wang, A., Zhang, X. (2022) Histogram Distortion Bias in Consumer Choices. Management Science.

• Lu, T., Zhang, L., Zhang, X., Zhao, Z. (2024) Beyond Risk: A Measure of Distribution Uncertainty. Information Systems Research.

• Tang, Z., Lu, T., Li, T. (2024) Metric-Independent Mitigation of Unpredefined Bias in Machine Classification. Intelligent Computing.

Books

• Zhang, M., Lu, T.., Shi, C. Navigating the Factor Zoo: The Science of Quantitative Investing.

Selected working papers

• Tianyi Li, Tao Lu, Zhoufei Tang, Michael Zhang. Propose and Review: Interactive Bias Mitigation for Machine Classifiers. Available at SSRN 4139244

• Sijia Ma, Chong (Alex) Wang, Michael Zhang, Tao Lu. Beauty and Trust: An Experimental Study of Digital Photo Enhancement.

• Tao Lu, Hao Yin, Michael Zhang. Peer-to-peer Social Advertisement Pricing Model.