Zeyu Bian, PhD Florida State University Email: zeyu.bian@fsu.edu

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University.

I earned my PhD in Biostatistics from McGill University in 2022, supervised by Dr. Erica Moodie and Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar.

Research

My research interests include Reinforcement Learning Dynamic Treatment Regimens Causal Inference Dynamic and Personalized Pricing

Publications

Preprints

• Bian Z, Qi Z, Shi C, and Wang L (2024). A Tale of Two Cities: Pessimism and Opportunism in Offline Dynamic Pricing.
  

Publications/Accepted manuscripts

• Bian Z, Shi C, Qi Z, and Wang L (2025). Off-policy Evaluation in Doubly Inhomogeneous Environments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 120 (550), 1102-1114.
  

• Bian Z, Moodie EEM, Shortreed S, Lambert, S, Bhatnagar SR (2024). Variable Selection for Individualized Treatment Rules with Discrete Outcomes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 73(2), 298–313.
  

• Moodie EEM, Bian Z, Coulombe J, Lian Y, Yang Y, and Shortreed S (2023). Variable selection in high dimensions for discrete-outcome individualized treatment rules: A case study in reducing severity of depression symptoms. Biostatistics, 25(3), 633–647.
  

• Bian Z, Moodie EEM, Shortreed S, Bhatnagar SR (2023). Variable Selection in Regression-based Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes. Biometrics, 79(2), 988-999.
  

• Bian Z, Moodie EEM, Shortreed S, Bhatnagar SR (2023). Tailoring Variable Selection and Ranking for Optimal Treatment Decision. Contributed to Handbook of Statistical Methods for Precision Medicine, edited by Cai T., Chakraborty B., Laber E., Moodie E. and van der Laan M. Chapman & Hall CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods.