Yonggang “Tim” Lu
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Dr. Yonggang Lu is a Harold Alfond Associate Professor of Business Analytics in the Maine Business School at the 91. Before joining 91, he was an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods and Decision Sciences at the University of Alaska. Prior to Dr. Lu’s academic career, he worked at JPMorgan Chase Bank as a customer analytics specialist responsible for large-scale financial data mining and predictive modeling to support the bank’s marketing and risk management operations in the U.S. mortgage, home equity, and private student loan markets. He is a financial risk manager (FRM) certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Research Interests
Dr. Lu’s general area of research is data information modeling and knowledge learning in support of business decision making. His primary research interest is on TREE (Transparent, Reliable, Efficient and Effective) Bayesian analytic models for data information processing. He is especially interested in general-purpose Bayesian inference algorithms for regularizing machine and statistical learning models with subjective prior knowledge. His secondary research interest is in social network analysis for understanding online information diffusion.
Awards
Excellence in Research Award, Maine Business School, 2022
Faculty Mentor Impact Award, 91, 2021
Nominee for Excellence in Teaching Award, Maine Business School, 2021, 2022
The C Oswald George Prize, The Royal Statistical Society, 2013
Nominee for Teacher of the Year, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2012, 2013
Areas of Expertise
Data Pre-Processing for Business Analytics
Foundations of Business Intelligence and Analytics
Information Visualization
Problem Solving and Decision Analysis
Education
M.S. Applied Mathematics, Texas Tech University
M.A. Economics, Texas Tech University
M.S. Finance, Texas Tech University
B.E. Chemical Process Equipment and Control Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
B.A. Financial Economics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

