Walter Zhang
Assistant Professor at The Wharton School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolWalter Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Wharton who blends machine learning, economics, and quantitative marketing to help firms integrate economic models and statistical methods into data-driven decisions. With 11 years of research and industry experience spanning the University of Chicago and internships at hedge funds and investment banks, he translates rigorous theory into practical insights about downstream customer impact. His work emphasizes how algorithmic choices affect firm outcomes and consumer welfare, bringing an economist’s causal perspective to modern ML problems. Walter’s background includes a PhD from Chicago Booth and a habit of making academic tools and CVs publicly accessible, signaling a commitment to transparency and reproducible research.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Millburn Senior High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Chicago
English, Chinese, German
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Github Skills (13)
r-package9
knitr9
rmarkdown8
literate-programming8
r8
sweave7
causal-inference5
random-forest5
statistics5
machine-learning4
econometrics3
lasso-regression2
heterogeneous2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
walterwzhang/Mercury-Tutorial
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years
walterwzhang/Chebyshev-Interpolation
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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