Scholar
Yan Leng
Google Scholar ID: WfU3qjQAAAAJ
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
680
H-index
14
i10-index
21
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2023-2024 Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors; McCombs BBA Faculty Honor Roll for 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025; $1M grant from NIH AIM-AHEAD program to support Black youth mental health (joint with Ying Ding, Craig Watkins, Yifan Peng, and David Hodge); NSF CRII Award in 2022; UT Austin Research & Creative Grants in 2023; McCombs Research Excellence Grant in 2023 and 2021; Texas Global Faculty Research Seed Grants in 2023; Marketing Science Institute in 2021.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at UT Austin McCombs School of Business; research supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Marketing Science Institute, and others.
Education
- Ph.D. from MIT Media Lab in 2020; dual Master's degrees in Computer Science and Transportation Engineering from MIT prior to that.
Background
- Assistant Professor at UT Austin McCombs School of Business; has a courtesy appointment at the School of Information; core member of the UT Machine Learning Lab; affiliated with MIT Media Lab. Research interests include: Interpretable Machine/Deep Learning on Networks, Network Spillovers and Dynamics, Human-Centric Interpretability in Generative AI.
