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Zhe Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, specializing in Innovation and Technology Operations. He has a strong research portfolio in business analytics, economics, and the impacts of digitization and information technology. His research interests focus on the societal implications of information technology and phenomena such as data-driven decision-making and the sharing economy. Zhang has investigated fairness and bias in auditing prediction algorithms and the effects of the sharing economy on urban economies and manufacturing strategies. He has presented his research at several top conferences, including those in information systems, economics, and computer science. He conducts his research using a variety of methods, integrating applied microeconomics and machine learning. Before his academic career, he worked in data science initiatives aimed at social good, including projects at DataKind and Facebook. Zhe earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University and holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Statistics from Stanford University.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).