About Me
I am Zhaoqi “ZQ” Cheng, a PhD student at the Questrom School of Boston University. Before joining BU, I received my bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University and master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University. I work with my advisor Dokyun Lee at the BIT Lab.
Methodologically, I combine NLP models with econometric methods to explore large-scale datasets with text-heavy attributes in the context of technological innovation, in particular patents. I am currently on deep generative models related to the representation and characterization of computing patents.
Research Projects
InnoVAE: Generative AI for Understanding Patents and Innovation
Zhaoqi Cheng, Dokyun Lee, Prasanna Tambe
Presented at CIST 2020, INFORMS DS 2020 and WISE 2020
Submitted to Management Science [SSRN]
Do Aggressive Comments Bring Better Questions? Evidence from Stack Overflow
Zhaoqi Cheng, Dokyun Lee, Tridas Mukhopadhyay
Presented at DMDA & DS workshops, INFORMS 2019
FCM: Interpretable Deep Learning for Text Exploration
Dokyun Lee, Emaad Manzoor, Zhaoqi Cheng (firstname α-β)
Under review at Information Systems Research [SSRN][Poster]
When Is It Permissible for AI to Lie? A Trust-Based Approach
Tae Wan Kim, Joy Lu, Kyusong Lee, John Hooker, Zhaoqi Cheng, Yanhan Tang
Presented at SBE Annual Meeting 2021 [arXiv]
Awards and Grants
[2021/08]Finalist of SBE Best Practical Solutions Award of 2021[2021/06]SBE Annual Meeting 2021 Best Paper Award[2020/12]WISE 2020 Best Student Paper Award[2020/11]INFORMS DS 2020 Best Student Paper (Runner up)[2019/09]CMU GSA/Provost Conference Funding ($750)[2020/08]Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (Nominated)[2020/06]Google Cloud Platform credits for research (Co-PI, $5,000)[2019/09]CMU GSA/Provost Conference Funding (Group member, $1,500)[2018/11]Marketing Science Institute Research Grant (Co-PI, $10,000)
Teaching Experiences
[CMU 45-830]TA for Marketing Research (MBA course). Instructor: Jeff Galak[CMU 45-851]TA for Data Mining (MBA course). Instructor: Dokyun Lee[CMU 45-881/46-884]TA for Modern Data Management (MBA/MSBA course). Instructor: Yan Huang[CMU 45-884]TA for Mining Unstructured Data (MBA course). Instructor: Dokyun Lee[CMU 73-374]TA for Econometrics II (Undergrad course). Instructor: David Childers[BU IS 465]TA for Managing Data Resources (Undergrad course). Instructor: Emine Kucukbenli[BU IS 811]Co-designer and TA for AI & Data Ethics. Instructor: Dokyun Lee