📍 London, UK
Email: fei.wu@kcl.ac.uk
Github: @M1kuW1ll
I am a 3rd-year PhD student in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, United Kingdom, supervised by Dr. Stefanos Leonardos and Professor Carmine Ventre. Before I started my PhD, I obtained my MSc degree in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
My research interests center around Decentralized Finance (DeFi). My current focus is on the economics of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on Ethereum, where I apply a combination of game theory, (agent-based) modeling & simulation, empirical data analysis, and mechanism design. I am fortunate to be advised by researchers from the Robust Incentives Group of Ethereum Foundation and Flashbots.
July 2025, paper "Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest" is accepted by AFT 2025.
July 2025, paper “From Competition to Centralization: The Oligopoly in Ethereum Block Building Auctions” is accepted by ECAI 2025.
May 2025, happy to attend The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference 2025 and present a poster on CEX-DEX arbitrages.
October 2024, honored to join the program committee of AAMAS 2025.
September 2024, our paper "To Compete or Collude: Bidding Incentives in Ethereum Block Building Auctions" is accepted by ICAIF 2024.
July 2024, thrilled to announce that I am awarded The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Fellowship 2024 funded by Uniswap Foundation.