Foster School of Business
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Yingfei Wang
- Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Education
- PhD Princeton University (2017)
- BS Peking University (2012)
Academic Expertise
- big data
- data analytics
- e-commerce
- machine learning
- operations research
- statistics
Current Research
- Machine learning, recommendation systems, Bayesian optimization, dynamic pricing, e-commerce, online auctions, deep learning, natural language processing, and healthcare analytics
Selected Publications
- “Finite-time Analysis for the Knowledge-Gradient Policy“Journal Article:Wang, Y. and Powell, W., (2018). SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 56(2), pp. 1105-1129.
- “Efficient Ordered Combinatorial Semi-Bandits for Whole-page Recommendation“Journal Article:Wang, Y., Ouyang, H., Wang, C., Chen, J., Asamov, T., and Chang, Y., (2017). AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
- “Learning online trends for interactive query auto-completion“Journal Article:Wang, Y., Ouyang, H., Deng, H., Chang, Y., (2017). IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
- “The knowledge gradient for sequential decision making with stochastic binary feedbacks“Journal Article:Wang, Y., Wang, C., and Powell, W., (2016). Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Machine learning,
- “Nested-batch mode active learning with an application to sequential multi-stage testing in materials science“Journal Article:Wang, Y., Reyes, K., Powell, W., Brown, K., and Mirkin, C., (2015). SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol. 37(3), pp. B361-B381.