Publications (by topics)

Information Elicitation

Optimal Scoring for Dynamic Information Acquisition. joint work with Jonathan Libgober (Econ Job Market Paper)
Optimal Scoring Rules for Multi-dimensional Effort. joint work with Jason Hartline, Liren Shan and Yifan Wu, COLT 2023
Optimization of Scoring Rules. joint work with Jason Hartline, Liren Shan and Yifan Wu, EC 2022, best poster award at EC 2020 [video]

General Mechanism Design

Managing Persuasion Robustly: The Optimality of Quota Rules. joint work with Dirk Bergemann and Tan Gan
Screening Signal-Manipulating Agents via Contests. joint work with Xiaoyun Qiu
Optimal Mechanism Design with Endogenous Principal Learning. joint work with Daniel Clark
Test Design without Commitment. joint work with Boli Xu
Exploration and Incentivizing Participation in Clinical Trials. joint work with Alex Slivkins
Bayesian Analysis of Linear Contracts. joint work with Tal Alon, Paul Dütting and Inbal Talgam-Cohen, EC 2023
Benchmark Design and Prior-independent Optimization. joint work with Jason Hartline and Aleck Johnsen, FOCS 2020 [video]

Auctions

Simple Mechanisms for Agents with Non-linear Utilities. joint work with Yiding Feng and Jason Hartline
Algorithmic Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions. joint work with Yang Cai and Jinzhao Wu
Scale-robust Auctions. joint work with Jason Hartline and Aleck Johnsen
Revenue Maximization for Buyers with Costly Participation. joint work with Yannai Gonczarowski, Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier, SODA 2024
Making Auctions Robust to Aftermarkets. joint work with Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier, ITCS 2023 [video]
Simple Mechanisms for Non-linear Agents. joint work with Yiding Feng and Jason Hartline, SODA 2023
Selling Data to an Agent with Endogenous Information. EC 2022 [video]
Bayesian Auctions with Efficient Queries. joint work with Jing Chen, Bo Li and Pinyan Lu, Artificial Intelligence, 2022 (conference version: ICALP 2018)
Revelation Gap for Pricing from Samples. joint work with Yiding Feng and Jason Hartline, STOC 2021 [video]
Approximately Maximizing the Broker’s Profit in a Two-sided Market. joint work with Jing Chen and Bo Li, IJCAI 2019
Optimal Auctions vs. Anonymous Pricing: Beyond Linear Utility. joint work with Yiding Feng and Jason Hartline, EC 2019 [video]
Revenue Maximization with Imprecise Distribution. joint work with Pinyan Lu and Haoran Ye, AAMAS 2019
Information Elicitation for Bayesian Auctions. joint work with Jing Chen and Bo Li, SAGT 2018

Repeated Games and Online Algorithms

Budget Pacing in Repeated Auctions: Regret and Efficiency without Convergence. joint work with Jason Gaitonde, Bar Light, Brendan Lucier and Alex Slivkins, R&R at Operations Research (conference version: ITCS 2023)
Misspecified Beliefs about Time Lags. joint work with Harry Pei
Nearly Minimax-Optimal Regret for Linearly Parameterized Bandits. joint work with Yining Wang and Yuan Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2023 (conference version: COLT 2019)
Equilibrium Behaviors in Repeated Games. joint work with Harry Pei, Journal of Economic Theory, 2021
Tight Regret Bounds for Infinite-armed Linear Contextual Bandits. joint work with Yining Wang, Xi Chen and Yuan Zhou, AISTATS 2021
Multinomial Logit Bandit with Low Switching Cost. joint work with Kefan Dong, Qin Zhang and Yuan Zhou, ICML 2020
Efficient Approximations for the Online Dispersion Problem. joint work with Jing Chen and Bo Li, SIAM Journal on Computing, 2019 (conference version: ICALP 2017)

Fair Division

Your College Dorm and Dormmates: Fair Resource Sharing with Externalities. joint work with Jiarui Gan and Bo Li, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2023 (conference version: AAMAS 2020)
Almost Proportional Allocations for Indivisible Chores. joint work with Bo Li and Xiaowei Wu, WebConf 2022
Dynamic Fair Division Problem with General Valuations. joint work with Bo Li and Wenyang Li, IJCAI 2018