Zhenyao Ma
Xiamen University
Research Interests
Welcome!
I am Zhenyao Ma (马镇尧, Jen-yow Ma), a researcher in machine learning, inverse optimization, and human behavior. I am curious about, and my research focuses on:
- How can machines learn and model human and social behavior?
- How can machines recover the optimization structures behind observed data?
- How do humans think, make decisions, and generate behavior?
I am currently an independent researcher and a Master’s student at Xiamen University. I am seeking PhD or research opportunities related to AI, business, human behavior, and society. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.
You can find my academic CV here.
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.
Academic Service
- Reviewer: NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems); ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)
- Teaching Assistant: Ph.D.-level Mathematical Economics, Xiamen University
- Membership: Economic Science Association (ESA); American Psychological Association (APA)