Shunyuan Zhang

Shunyuan Zhang is an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first-year Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Zhang studies the sharing economy and the marketing problems that the dynamics of this new economy present. She deploys machine learning methods including deep learning to extract useful information from unstructured data. Combining this information with structured data, Professor Zhang conducts thorough analysis and policy simulations to examine important issues emerging in the sharing economy arena.

Professor Zhang earned a Ph.D. in Marketing/Business Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. She has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Business School (2019)
• PHD Student Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business (2014 — 2019)
• Instructor Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business (2018 — 2018)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Carnegie Mellon University
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Purdue University
• Bachelor of Science - BS University of Science and Technology of China