Hi! Welcome to my website! I am Huiying Zhong, a Ph.D. student at the Operations Research Center, MIT. I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Ali Aouad and Prof. Thodoris Lykouris.

My research interests center on the interplay between human preferences/behavior and intelligent systems, with applications to the educational and cultural sectors.

Prior to joining MIT, I graduated from School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University with a bachelor’s degree in Statistics. I grew up in Hunan, China.

Publications

• Human-AI Productivity Paradoxes: Modeling the Interplay of Skill, Effort, and AI Assistance.

  A. Aouad*, T. Lykouris*, H. Zhong*.

  The 27th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2026)

  Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers Conference on Economics and AI+ML (ESIF AIML 2026)

• Statistical Inference under Performativity.

  X. Li*, Y. Li*, H. Zhong*, L. Lei, Z. Deng.

  The 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing System (NeurIPS 2025).

(* denotes alphabetical order.)

You can find a complete list of works on my Google Scholar profile.

Education

• Ph.D in Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024 - Present
• B.S. in Statistics, Peking University, 2020 - 2024