Zezhen (Dawn) He

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Sloan's Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE). My research combines behavioral experiments and machine learning methods to investigate how people perceive and interact with AI, with the aim of improving collaborative outcomes. My research covers behavioral operations, human-algorithm collaboration, interpretable and explainable AI, and causal inference.

I received my PhD in Operations Management from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School. I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Yaron Shaposhnik (University of Rochester), Professor León Valdés (University of Pittsburgh), and Professor Fernanda Bravo (UCLA).

Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned a Master's degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and a Bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University, where I double-majored in Economics and Mathematics. During the 2022-2023 academic year, I was a visiting PhD student at UCLA Anderson School of Management in the Decisions, Operations & Technology Management group.