Walter W. Zhang
Booth School of Business
PhD Student
5807 South Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
wretlawgnahz[at][tod]htoobogacihcedu
My research scrutinizes the intersection between machine learning and quantitative marketing for firm decision-making.
Additional information about my work can be found here.
Education
Chicago Booth
- PhD, Fall 2018 - Present
Awards: Wesley C. Pickard PhD Fellowship (2020)
University of Chicago
- BA 2016, Physics
BA 2016, Economics
Awards: General Honors, Dean's List
Professional Employment
Research Professional, Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL
July 2016 - July 2018
Research Assistant, Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL
January - July 2016
Summer Intern, Aperio Division, Point72 Asset Management, New York, NY
June - September 2015
Summer Research Intern, The Midway Group L.P., New York, NY
June - August 2014
Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
April - October 2014
Summer Intern, Business Solutions, Credit Suisse, New York, NY
June - August 2013
Teaching Experience
Chicago Booth
PhD Program
- Instructor, Booth PhD Math Camp
Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022
- TA, Applied Bayesian Econometrics (BUSN 37906)
Spring 2022
EMBA Program
- TA, Marketing with Big Data (BUSN 37888)
Summer 2019 (Evaluation: 4.68/5.00)
- TA, Marketing for Startups (BUSN 37889)
Summer 2018 (Evaluation: 4.15/5.00)
MBA Program
- TA, Digital and Algorithmic Marketing (BUSN 37304)
Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Autumn 2021
- TA, Algorithmic Marketing Lab (BUSN 37704)
Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
- TA, Data Science for Marketing Decision Making (BUSF 37105)
Winter 2017, Autumn 2020
- TA, Selling and Sales Management (BUSN 37208)
Autumn 2021
- TA, Startup Marketing (BUSN 37108)
Winter 2019
University of Chicago
- Course Assistant, Perspectives on Computational Analysis (MACS 30000)
Fall 2016, MACSS Program
- Core Tutor for Economics
Fall 2015 - Spring 2016, College Core Tutor Program
Point72 Asset Management
- TA, Data Analytics in R, Point72 Academy
August - September 2015
Academic Activities
Conferences and invited research presentations (including planned)
- 2023
- Kellogg-Booth Student Symposium
- 2022
- Advances with Field Experiments; Marketing Science; Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute (Alumni Event); Quantitative Marketing and Economics; Association for Consumer Research
- 2021
- Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Consortium; Marketing Science
Journal refereeing
Conference organization
- Marketing Science 2022 Student Organizer
Skills
- OS/Environments
- Microsoft Windows and Linux
- Programming
- Proficient in Python, R, and Java
Exposed to Bash, SQL, and C#
- Software
- Microsoft Excel, Mathematica, and Stata
- Languages
- English: Native
Mandarin: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Other Projects and Activities
UChicago Men's Volleyball Club
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
September 2016 - June 2018
[___] Skin (Donkeyskin): A Digital Humanities Project
March 2016