Zhenyao Ma

Zhenyao Ma

Independent Researcher

M.Res. Student, School of Economics, Xiamen University

Research Interests

Behavioral and experimental economics
Microeconomic theory
Machine Learning

Welcome!

I am Zhenyao Ma (马镇尧, Jen-yow Ma), a researcher in human behavior, complex social systems, and machine learning. I am curious about, and my research focuses on:

  • How humans execute behavior and make decisions?
    • Behavioral and experimental economics
  • How complex social systems operate?
    • Microeconomic theory and complex systems
  • How can machines generate human and social behavior?
    • Machine learning grounded in behavioral and social science

My Research

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Behavior Learning

Zhenyao Ma, Yue Liang, Dongxu Li

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Grounded in behavioral science, we propose Behavior Learning (BL), a general-purpose interpretable ML framework as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs).

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.