Song Zuo

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About me

I got my PhD at IIIS, Tsinghua University. 2013 - 2018

I obtained my Bachelor Degree at Yao Class of IIIS, Tsinghua University. 2009 - 2013

My advisor is Prof. Pingzhong Tang.

I am one of the 2017 Google PhD Fellows. I also won the Yao Award during my undergraduate.

Research Interests

Auction and Mechanism Design, Economics and Computation

Publications

Journal Publications

[PDF, SSRN] Dynamic Double Auctions: Toward First Best.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme. Operations Research, 2022, 70 (4).

Conference version published at SODA-19, San Diego, USA.

[PDF, Supplement, SSRN] Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design.

Co-author with Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme, Pingzhong Tang. Econometrica, 2020, 88 (5).

[Slides] Conference version published at EC-18, Ithaca, USA.

Conference Publications

[arXiv] Autobidding Auctions in the Presence of User Costs.

Co-author with Yuan Deng, Jieming Mao, Vahab Mirrokni, Hanrui Zhang. WWW-23.

[PDF, SSRN] Optimal Mechanisms for Value Maximizers with Budget Constraints via Target Clipping.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Yuan Deng, Jieming Mao, Vahab Mirrokni. EC-22.

[arXiv] Calibrated Click-Through Auctions.

Co-author with Dirk Bergemann, Paul Duetting, Renato Paes Leme. WWW-22, Online.

[arXiv] Robust Auction Design in the Auto-bidding World.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Yuan Deng, Jieming Mao, Vahab Mirrokni. NeurIPS-21, Online.

[PDF, SSRN] The Landscape of Auto-bidding Auctions: Value versus Utility Maximization.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Yuan Deng, Jieming Mao, Vahab Mirrokni. EC-21, Online.

[PDF, SSRN] Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constraints and Beyond.

Co-author with Yuan Deng, Vahab Mirrokni. EC-21, Online.

[PDF] Revenue-Incentive Tradeoffs in Dynamic Reserve Pricing.

Co-author with Yuan Deng, Sébastien Lahaie, Vahab Mirrokni. ICML-21, Online.

[arXiv] Towards Efficient Auctions in an Auto-bidding World.

Co-author with Yuan Deng, Jieming Mao, Vahab Mirrokni. WWW-21, Online.

[PDF, SSRN] Non-Excludable Dynamic Mechanism Design.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme. SODA-21, Online.

[arXiv] Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in First Price Auction with Discrete Value Distribution.

Co-author with Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang. AAMAS-21, Online.

[PDF] A Data-Driven Metric of Incentive Compatibility.

Co-author with Yuan Deng, Sébastien Lahaie, Vahab Mirrokni. WWW-20, Online.

[arXiv] An Economic Approach to Vehicle Dispatching for Ride Sharing.

Co-author with Mengjing Chen, Weiran Shen, Pingzhong Tang. IJCAI-19, Macau, China.

[arXiv] Automated Mechanism Design via Neural Networks.

Co-author with Weiran Shen, Pingzhong Tang. AAMAS-19, Montréal, Canada.

[arXiv] The Matthew Effect in Computation Contests: High Difficulty may Lead to 51% Dominance.

Co-author with Yulong Zeng. WWW-19, San Francisco, USA.

[SSRN] Optimal Dynamic Auctions are Virtual Welfare Maximizers.

Co-author with Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme, Pingzhong Tang. AAAI-19, Honolulu, USA.

[PDF] Learning Optimal Strategies to Commit to.

Co-author with Binghui Peng, Weiran Shen, Pingzhong Tang. AAAI-19, Honolulu, USA.

[SSRN] Dynamic Double Auctions: Towards First Best.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme. SODA-19, San Diego, USA.

[PDF] Ex-Post IR Dynamic Auctions with Cost-Per-Action Payments.

Co-author with Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang. IJCAI-18, Stockholm, Sweden.

[PDF] Incentive-Aware Learning for Large Markets.

Co-author with Alessandro Epasto, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab Mirrokni. WWW-18, Lyon, France.

[SSRN] Dynamic Mechanism Design in the Field.

Co-author with Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme, Rita Ren. WWW-18, Lyon, France.

[SSRN] Dynamic Revenue Sharing.

Co-author with Santiago Balseiro, Max Lin, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme. NeurIPS-17, Long Beach, USA.

[PDF] Fans Economy and All-Pay Auctions with Proportional Allocations.

Co-author with Pingzhong Tang, Yulong Zeng. AAAI-17, San Francisco, USA.

[PDF] Dynamic Auctions with Bank Accounts.

Co-author with Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Paes Leme, Pingzhong Tang. IJCAI-16, New York, USA.

[PDF] Digital Good Exchange.

Co-author with Wenyi Fang, Pingzhong Tang. IJCAI-16, New York, USA.

[PDF] Randomized Assignments for Barter Exchanges: Fairness vs. Efficiency.

Co-author with Wenyi Fang, Aris Filos-Ratskas, Søren Stiil-Fredriksen, Pingzhong Tang. ADT-15, Kentucky, USA.

[PDF] Optimal machine strategy to commit to in two-person repeated games.

Co-author with Pingzhong Tang. AAAI-15, Austin, USA.

[arXiv] Tighter Relations Between Sensitivity and Other Complexity Measures.

Co-author with Andris Ambainis, Mohammad Bavarian, Yihan Gao, Jieming Mao, Xiaoming Sun. ICALP-14, Copenhagen, Denmark.

[PDF] On the sensitivity complexity of bipartite graph properties.

Co-author with Yihan Gao, Jieming Mao, Xiaoming Sun. TCS, 2013.