Dennis Zhang, PhD, researches data-driven business decision making. He uses machine learning, causal inference and structural estimation with data to improve business decisions. Zhang published nearly two dozen scholarly articles during his first eight years at Olin. His work has led to two Olin Awards, which recognize scholarly research with timely, practical applications. He has also won two Reid Teaching Awards, which Olin graduates bestow on faculty members they see as inspirational, energizing and transformative. In 2022, he was a co-winner of the POMS Early Career Research Accomplishments Award, one of the most prestigious honors in the operations management field. He is now the editor of machine learning and data science area in Operations Research, one of the top three most prestigious journals in the field of Operations Management/Operations Research.