Business Insights through Text
The BIT LAB
We explore, examine, and extract consumer behavior or market insights through abundantly available, yet severely untapped text data. Via a variety of methodologies including causal inference, generative models, deep learning, neural NLP, bayesian statistics, interpretable machine learning, etc spanning topics such as social media analytics, digital consumer management, persuasion, patents, and promotion, our studies are focused on providing empirical evidence and empirical generalization to develop or extend consumer behavior and market theories.
Doctoral Students
Emaad ManzoorEmaad Manzoor is a PhD student in Information Systems at the Heinz College, CMU. He works on machine learning and causal inference methodology for data with complex structure, such as networks and text. Substantively, he examines causal questions pertaining to persuasion and its linguistic determinants.
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Zhaoqi ChengZhaoqi Cheng is a PhD student in Business Technology at Tepper School of Business, CMU. He combines machine learning with econometrics models to explore large-scale data with text-heavy attributes, such as patent files, online forums and user reviews. He is currently working on generative models related to the representation and characterization of innovations.
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Samuel LevySam Levy is a Marketing Ph.D. candidate in the Tepper School of Business, CMU. He uses and combines Bayesian {statistics, machine learning and econometrics} to (1) build predictive models of browsing and buying behavior using unstructured data (2) flexibly model consumer behavior and make policy recommendations for pricing and promotional strategies.
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Chengfeng MaoChengfeng Mao is an incoming PhD student in Marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He obtained his master's degree in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include applying machine learning to draw business and economic insights from unstructured data, such as text, image, and network graph.
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