Xiaorui Zhu

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Analytics and Technology Management

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Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-3265
Office:
Stephens Hall, 301M

Currently Teaching

  • Spring: EBTM350.001 - BUSINESS ANALYTICS
  • Spring: EBTM350.002 - BUSINESS ANALYTICS
  • Spring: EBTM457.101 - DATA MINING


Education

Ph D, Business Analytics, University of Cincinnati, 2022
MS, Finance, Penn State University, 2014
MS, Applied Statistics, Beijing University of Technology, 2012
BS, Statistics, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Business Analytics

Machine Learning

Empirical Finance

Bankruptcy Prediction

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Zooming in on Distress Risk: Bankruptcy vs. Other Failures,
    Publisher: SSRN Electronic Journal, , 2025
  • SurrogateRsq: An R Package for Categorical Data Goodness-of-Fit Analysis Using the Surrogate R2,
    Publisher: The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, , 2024
  • Sparsified simultaneous confidence intervals for high-dimensional linear models,
    Publisher: Metrika, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2024
  • Is Delisting from NASDAQ Too Costly?,
    Publisher: Research in International Business and Finance, September, 2023
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Stock Market and Investor Online Word of Mouth,
    Publisher: Decision Support Systems, August, 2023
  • A new goodness‐of‐fit measure for probit models: Surrogate R2,
    Publisher: British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022
  • Corporate Probability of Default: A Single-Index Hazard Model Approach,
    Publisher: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022
  • PAsso: an R Package for Assessing Partial Association between Ordinal Variables,
    Publisher: The R Journal, , 2021

Grants & Contracts

  • Towson Foundation Grant
    Sponsor: Towson University Foundation, 2025
  • Individual and Group Effect of Remaining Lifetime at a Fashion Resale Platform
    Sponsor: , 2024