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Associate Professor
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
BIO
I am an Associate Professor of Marketing at Rotman. My research examines a wide range of substantive topics in digital marketing, including LLM-based AI shopping assistant, algorithmic targeting, platform search and recommendation systems, review systems, and push notifications. Many involve behavioral phenomena such as consumer left-digit bias and limited attention. I am also interested in the intersection of marketing with political and development economics, such as e-commerce trade and place-based policies, as well as the role of social and historical factors in household purchase decisions. Methodologically, I use both applied theory and a combination of natural and field experiments and modern causal-inference approaches applied to large-scale field data, often in collaboration with industry partners such as Alibaba and Ctrip.
At Rotman, I teach Pricing at the MBA, executive, and undergraduate levels, as well as Principles of Marketing, and have received multiple Rotman Teaching Awards. I serve as Associate Editor of Marketing Science and acting as a regular referee and grant reviewer for leading journals and funding agencies in marketing, economics, and related fields.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant Professor in MarketingUniversity of Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2017 - 30 Jun 2025
- Associate Professor of MarketingUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2025 - present
- Visiting Associate ProfessorCity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2026
DEGREES
- PhD in Business AdministrationUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
- Master of FinanceUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Master of ManagementPeking University, Beijing, China
- BSc in ChemistryPeking University, Beijing, China
- BA in EconomicsPeking University, Beijing, China
AVAILABILITY
- Industry Projects