Junyuan Ke
Doctoral Student
Computer Information Systems
Simon Business School, The University of Rochester
junyuan.ke AT simon.rochester.edu, j.ke AT utexas.edu
Bio
I am a doctoral student in Information Systems at The Simon School of Business of The University of Rochester. My research interest intersects Data Mining and Causal Inference with an emphasis on studying the impact of emerging technologies and innovation on digital platforms.
Education
Before moving to Rochester, I was briefly a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Wen Wen.
In 2018, I graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics & Mathematics. I was advised by Joyce Ho and Vilma Todri.
Publications
- Phenotype Instance Verification and Evaluation Tool (PIVET): A Scaled Phenotype Evidence Generation Framework Using Web-Based Medical Literature
Jette Henderson, Junyuan Ke, Joyce C. Ho, Joydeep Ghosh, Byron C. Wallace. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2018.
Background and Miscellaneous
When I’m not in the office, I am try to be an avid boxer. I also used to play video game competitively in collegiate tournaments. You can also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn
What I’m Up To
You know what is kind of funny but swept under the rug a lot? Bob LaLonde is his 1986 AER influential evaluation of the NSW program which was an RCT where he dropped the experimental controls and replaced with nonexperimental controls from CPS and PSID, both representative 1/n
I have a working paper out that I think is interesting! It's about instrumental variables and what you get out of thinking about heterogeneity in the effect of the instrument. A lot, it turns out! (thread) https://business.fullerton.edu/department/economics/assets/CSUF_WP_6-19.pdf?_=0.4520744169447609
