Faculty
Haifeng Xu
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
University of Chicago
Current Group Members
Seyed A. Esmaeili (Postdoc Fellow)
About: Interested in interactions between algorithms, data, individuals and society specifically in fairness and incentive issues.
Ganghua Wang (Postdoc Fellow)
About: Passionate for statistical learning methods and their real-world applications, particularly on trustworthy AI. Enjoy Badminton & Steam.
Andrzej Kaczmarczyk (Postdoc Fellow)
About: A tenacious adept armed with algorithms, data science, and axiomatization to solve decision-making riddles.
Minbiao Han (PhD Student)
About: Exploring the interplay of economics, algorithms, and machine learning, traversing both anticipation and aspiration.
Jibang Wu (PhD Student)
About: Interested in interactions and mechanisms in multi-agent systems, looking ahead at both hype and hope.
Fan Yao (PhD Student, co-advised with Prof. Hongning Wang)
About: A theory-obsessed pragmatist, a crazy tennis player, and an underachieving daydreamer.
Alec Sun (PhD Student)
About: Excited about algorithmic mechanism design and beautiful math. Enjoy throwing frisbees in games and throwing frisbee games.
Yuwei Cheng (PhD Student)
About: Enthusiastic about developing robust and provably efficient ML models to extract knowledge from data.
Aditya Prasad (PhD Student)
About: Algorithm designer and puzzle solver, balancing ML theory and combinatorial optimization with poker, chess, and rock climbing.
Undergrads and M.S. Student
Lucien Liu
About: Undergrad at UChicago
Research project: Environment API development for Stackelberg games.
Anqi Qu
About: Undergrad at UChicago
Research project: Intersection of machine learning, applied economics, and AI alignment.
Qingchuan (Tony) Yang
About: Undergrad at UChicago
Research project: Welfare Dynamics in Human-AI Content Creation Competition.
Chaplin Huang
About: Undergrad at UChicago
Research project: Welfare & Fairness in Recommendation Systems, deep reasoning of LLMs.
Alumni
Haichuan Wang, Undergrad, 2024
Next stop: PhD at Harvard CS
Derek Zhu, Undergrad, 2024
Next stop: Radix Trading
Quinlan Dawkins, Undergrad, 2022
Next stop: nod.ai
Nijat Khanbabayev, Master, 2022
Next stop: Hudson River Trading
Chenghan Zhou, Undergrad, 2021
Next stop: graduate at Princeton
Jeffrey Tan, Undergrad, 2020
Next stop: PhD at UC Berkeley
Visitors
Jamie Nachbar (summer 2020)
About: undergraduate at Yale
Research project: study the power and limits of signaling
Yifan Guo (spring 2023)
About: Undergrad at USTC
Research project: Complexity and mechanism design of information
Yang Yu (UVA Econ)
About: interested in studying strategic behaviors and efficiency-improving mechanisms.
Yu He
About: Undergrad at CityU HK
Research project: The Complexity of Tullock Contests and Information Design in Data Markets.