Faculty
Haifeng Xu
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
University of Chicago
Current Group Members
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.
Seyed A. Esmaeili (Postdoc)
About: Interested in interactions between algorithms, data, individuals and society specifically in fairness and incentive issues.
Ganghua Wang (Postdoc)
About: Passionate for statistical learning methods and their real-world applications, particularly on trustworthy AI. Enjoy Badminton & Steam.
Andrzej Kaczmarczyk (Postdoc)
About: A tenacious adept armed with algorithms, data science, and axiomatization to solve decision-making riddles.
Star Li (PhD Student)
About: Leveraging abundant, noisy signals from blackbox models to improve real-world performance of decision-making systems.
Anri Gu (PhD Student)
About: Multi-agent system enthusiast, blending game theoretic reasoning with LLMs while unwinding through all kinds of sports and occasional movie.
Alumni (PhDs and Postdocs)
Jibang Wu (PhD, 2025)
Next stop: assistant professor at NYU Shanghai, Business School.
Fan Yao (PhD, 2025; co-advised with Prof. Hongning Wang)
Next stop: assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Stats&OR.
Minbiao Han (PhD, 2025)
Next stop: Scientist at Microsoft
Yang Yu (visiting PhD, 2024)
Next stop: assistant professor at Monash University, Economics (after one-year postdoc at MIT)
Alumni (Undergrad/Master RAs)
Lucien Liu, undergrad 2025
Next stop: IMC trading
Anqi Qu, undergrad 2025
Next stop: Rhode scholar at Oxford
Tony Yang, undergrad 2025
Next stop: CS PhD at USC
Chaplin Huang, undergrad 2025
Next stop: Snap Inc.
Yu He, visiting undergrad, 2025
Next stop: CS PhD at Northwestern
Yifan Guo, visiting undergrad 2023
Next stop: PhD at Stanford GSB
Haichuan Wang, Undergrad, 2024
Next stop: PhD at Harvard CS
Derek Zhu, Undergrad, 2024
Next stop: Radix Trading
Quinlan Dawkins, Undergrad, 2022
Next stop: startup 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
Jamie Nachbar, visiting undergrad 2020
Next stop: Optiver trading