Dr. Ying Bao

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Ying Bao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she specializes in marketing and consumer behavior. She completed her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in 2020. Her research interests include Digital Marketing, Consumer Well-being, Behavioural Economics, (In)attention, Contract Design, Food Consumption, and Technology Adoption. In her teaching, she focuses on integrating practical applications of analytics into marketing strategies through courses like Marketing Research and Consumer Analytics. Bao has contributed to various scholarly articles and has served as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for prestigious journals such as Production Operations Management and Management Science. Currently, she is involved in research projects exploring mobile phone addiction and consumer price sensitivity regarding unhealthy foods, aligning academic work with real-world marketing challenges and policy implications.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

— Present

Business Administration • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching and researching various aspects of marketing and consumer behavior.

Courses

Marketing Research Intro Consumer Analytics Cons Analytics: Theory & Pract Proseminar Marketing

Requirements for University of Illinois

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:17
Reading
Required:19
Writing
Required:21
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:103
GRE General
Prerequisites
Mathematical background Linear Algebra Calculus
Application Checklist
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  • Academic Statement of Purpose
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Specialization Notes

GRE is optional for admission to all graduate programs in Statistics. Full status admission requires higher language scores than limited status.