📍 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) and Crypto-economics. My current focus is 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. I am currently working as a research intern at Flashbots.
November 2025, paper "The Free Option Problem of ePBS" is accepted by FC 2026.
October 2025, honored to serve as a program committee member of AAMAS 2026.
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 serve as a program committee member 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.