Zhenyao Ma
Independent Researcher
Xiamen University
Research Interests
Welcome!
I am Zhenyao Ma (马镇尧, Jen-yow Ma), a researcher in human behavior, machine learning, and complex social systems. I am curious about, and my research focuses on:
- How can machines learn and model human and social behavior?
- Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence
- How do humans think, make decisions, and generate behavior?
- Behavioral and Cognitive Science
- How complex social systems operate?
- Complex Social System
I am currently seeking PhD or research opportunities at the intersection of AI and behavioral and cognitive sciences, or AI and the social sciences and economics. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.
My Research
View All →Behavior Learning (BL)
Zhenyao Ma, Yue Liang, Dongxu Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Inspired by behavioral science, we propose Behavior Learning (BL), a novel general-purpose ML framework that learns (hierarchical) optimization structures from data, as a promising alternative to neural network for scientific domains involving optimization.
Human Social Preferences in Simple and Complex Decisions
With Sen Geng, Menglong Guan
Working Paper
Social preferences capture human motives beyond self-interest, such as kindness and moral concern. In this, we study how complexity endogenously affects social preferences.