Curriculum vitae

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, USA

Advised by Prof. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury and Prof. Ruta Mehta

I study the stability of data exchange among competing firms and how customer behavior affects incentives to cooperate.

A core-stable exchange always exists in fully rational markets for any monotone continuous prediction and utility functions, when customers choose the top-performing firm. With partially rational customers and logit-style demand, core-stable exchanges may fail to exist.

Game theory · Machine learning

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, USA

Advised by Prof. Steven Wu

I work on provably efficient multi-agent planning in large general-sum Markov games, motivated by congestion control and public goods provision.

We developed provably efficient algorithms for a class of Nash-computable games in which unilateral deviations have bounded influence on rewards and dynamics.

Game theory · Multi-agent planning

Peking University · Beijing, China

Advised by Prof. Xiaotie Deng

I studied how to make blockchain auctions practical by outsourcing the cost of solving timed-commitment puzzles.

We introduced a puzzle-outsourcing market, designed a practical protocol that incentivizes truthful reporting of bidders' and solvers' private values, and derived an optimal pricing strategy for auctioneers.

Auction theory · Mechanism design · Cryptography · Incentive analysis