Welcome! This is Cheng Lu.
I’m a Ph.D. student in Marketing Science at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). I’m advised by Prof. Dennis Zhang. My research interests lie in User-Generated Content (UGC) Platforms, Social Networks, Causal Inference, and Machine Learning.
Education
- Ph.D. Student in Marketing Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 2023 - 2029 (Expected)
- M.A. in Management, London Business School, 2022 - 2023
- B.S. in Economics, Tsinghua University, 2018 - 2022
Research
- Working Papers
- Guangying Chen, Cheng Lu, Tat Y. Chan, Zhengling Qi, Dennis J. Zhang, and Industry Collaborators. “A New Estimator for Encouragement Design in Field Experiments When the Exclusion Restriction Is Violated.”
Runner-up for the 2024 INFORMS Information Systems Cluster Best Paper Award (Top 5%)
- Guangying Chen, Cheng Lu, Tat Y. Chan, Zhengling Qi, Dennis J. Zhang, and Industry Collaborators. “A New Estimator for Encouragement Design in Field Experiments When the Exclusion Restriction Is Violated.”
Conference Presentations
A New Estimator for Encouragement Design in Field Experiments When the Exclusion Restriction Is Violated
- INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2024
Teaching
Teaching Assistant - Washington University in St. Louis
- Applied Marketing Research (Undergraduate), FL 2024
- Marketing Research (MBA; Master), FL 2024