About

I am a tenured associate professor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. I studied in the Experimental Class of Computer Science at Tsinghua University and received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2016, advised by Pingzhong Tang and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao.

My research interests include:

  1. AI for science: Using AI to explore scientific questions, including algorithms and approximation algorithms, auction theory, and information design, with a focus on computational and game-theoretic problems in scientific research.
  2. The economics of AI: Studying emerging economic issues in the age of AI, including data trading, online advertising auctions, and new advertising models.

Students

Selected Publications

  1. Private Private Information in Second-Price Auction.

    Boyu Liu, Wei Tang, Zihe Wang, Shuo Zhang. EC-26.

  2. Competitive Information Design with Asymmetric Senders

    Zhicheng Du, Wei Tang, Zihe Wang, Shuo Zhang. EC-24.

  3. Improved Approximation Ratios of Fixed-Price Mechanisms in Bilateral Trades

    Zhengyang Liu, Zeyu Ren, Zihe Wang. STOC-23.

  4. A tighter welfare guarantee for first-price auctions.

    Darrell Hoy, Sam Taggart, Zihe Wang. STOC-18.

  5. Optimal Commitments in Auctions with Incomplete Information.

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang. EC-2016.

  6. Optimal Auctions for Negatively Correlated Items.

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang. EC-2016.

  7. Optimal Mechanisms with Simple Menus

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang. EC-2014.

Full Publication List
  1. Mechanism Design via Market-Clearing Prices for Value Maximizers under Budget and RoS Constraints

    Xiaodong Liu, Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang. WINE-26

  2. Prices as Signals: Joint Design of Information and Pricing

    Zhicheng Du, Yanwei Sun, Zihe Wang, Jiahua Wu. WINE-26

  3. Algorithmic Information Design for Searchers with Uncertain Alternatives

    Zhicheng Du, Hu Fu, Ying Qin, Zihe Wang. WINE-26

  4. Private Private Information in Second-Price Auction.

    Boyu Liu, Wei Tang, Zihe Wang, Shuo Zhang. EC-26.

  5. Selling Data as a Digital Good with Scaling Valuations.

    Xiaotie Deng, Yanru Guan, Ningyuan Li, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. ICML-26.

  6. Deterministic implementation in single-item auctions.

    Yan Liu, Zeyu Ren, Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Yulong Zeng, Jie Zhang. IJCAI-26.

  7. Intelli-Planner: Towards Customized Urban Planning via Large Language Model Empowered Reinforcement Learning

    Xixian Yong, Peilin Sun, Zihe Wang, Xiao Zhou. WWW-26

  8. Pacing Equilibria in Second-Price Auctions with Few Buyers

    Yonglei Yan, Zihe Wang, Zhengyang Liu. AAAI-26.

  9. Striking the Balance: Optimizing Pricing Schemes for Time-Sensitive Buyers

    Zhengyang Liu, Liang Shan, Zihe Wang. TCS-25 (AAAI-23).

  10. Ex-Ante Truthful Distribution-Reporting Mechanisms

    Xiaotie Deng, Yanru Guan, Ningyuan Li, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. WINE-25.

  11. Multiplayer General Lotto game

    Yan Liu, Bonan Ni, Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. WINE-25.

  12. Approximating EFX through a New Notion of Fairness

    Rui Dai, Yuxuan Wang, Zhengyang Liu, Zihe Wang. TAMC-25.

  13. On the design of truthful mechanisms for the capacitated facility location problem with two and more facilities

    Gennaro Auricchio, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. AIJ-25 (IJCAI-24).

  14. On the Oscillations in Cournot Games with Best Response Strategies

    Zhengyang Liu, Haolin Lu, Liang Shan, Zihe Wang. COCOON-25.

  15. On the Distortion of Multi-winner Election Using Single-Candidate Ballots

    Gennaro Auricchio, Zeyu Ren, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. COCOON-25.

  16. Simultaneous All-Pay Auctions with Budget Constraints

    Yan Liu, Ying Qin, Zihe Wang. COCOON-25.

  17. Stackelberg vs. Nash in the Lottery Colonel Blotto Game

    Yan Liu, Bonan Ni, Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. IJCAI-25.

  18. Competitive Information Design with Asymmetric Senders

    Zhicheng Du, Wei Tang, Zihe Wang, Shuo Zhang. EC-24.

  19. Facility Location Problems with Capacity Constraints: Two Facilities and Beyond

    Gennaro Auricchio, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. IJCAI-24.

  20. Edge-Centric Pricing Mechanisms with Selfish Heterogeneous Users

    Haisheng Tan, Guopeng Li, Ziyu Shen, Zihe Wang, Zhenhua Han, Mingjun Xiao, Xiangyang Li, Guoliang Chen. JCST-24.

  21. Enhancing Multi-modal Cooperation via Sample-level Modality Valuation

    Yake Wei, Ruoxuan Feng, Zihe Wang, Di Hu. CVPR-24.

  22. On Truthful Item Acquiring Mechanisms for Reward Maximization

    Liang Shan, Shuo Zhang, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. WWW-24.

  23. Cost Minimization for Equilibrium Transition

    Haoqiang Huang, Zihe Wang, Zhide Wei, Jie Zhang. AAAI-24.

  24. Bounded Incentives in Manipulating the Probabilistic Serial Rule

    Haoqiang Huang, Zihe Wang, Zhide Wei, Jie Zhang. JCSS-24 (AAAI-20).

  25. Improved Approximation Ratios of Fixed-Price Mechanisms in Bilateral Trades

    Zhengyang Liu, Zeyu Ren, Zihe Wang. STOC-23.

  26. Node Conversion Optimization in Multi-hop Influence Networks

    Jie Zhang, Yuezhou Lv, Zihe Wang. AAMAS-23.

  27. Optimal Pricing Schemes for Identical Items with Time-Sensitive Buyers

    Zhengyang Liu, Liang Shan, Zihe Wang, AAAI-23.

  28. A Competitive Analysis of Online Failure-Aware Assignment

    Mengjing Chen, Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Shenke Xiao, Xiwang Yang. UAI-22.

  29. Optimal Anonymous Independent Reward Scheme Design

    Mengjing Chen, Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Shenke Xiao, Xiwang Yang. IJCAI-22.

  30. Optimal Pricing Policy Design for Selling Cost-Reducing Innovation in Cournot Games

    Mengjing Chen, Haoqiang Huang, Weiran Shen, Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Jie Zhang. Theoretical Computer Science, 2022.

  31. Relaxing the independence assumption in sequential posting pricing, prophet inequality, and random bipartite matching

    Ioannis Caragiannis, Nick Gravin, Pinyan Lu, Zihe Wang. WINE-2021.

  32. Distributed Game-Theoretical Route Navigation for Vehicular Crowdsensing

    En Wang, Dongming Luan, Yongjian Yang, Zihe Wang, Pengmin Dong, Dawei Li, Wenbin Liu, Jie Wu. ICPP-2021.

  33. Dynamic Online User Recruitment with (Non-)submodular Utility in Mobile Crowd Sensing

    Wenbin Liu, Yongjian Yang, En Wang, Hengzhi Wang, Zihe Wang, Jie Wu. Transactions on Networking, 2021.

  34. A Game-theoretical Approach to Analyze Film Release Time

    April Hua Liu, Mengjing Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Zihe Wang. ICTAI-20.

  35. Optimized Cost per Mille in Feeds Advertising

    Pingzhong Tang, Xun Wang, Zihe Wang, Yadong Xu, Xiwang Yang. AAMAS-20.

  36. Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in First-Price Auction with Discrete Value Distributions

    Zihe Wang, Weiran Shen, Song Zuo. AAMAS-20.

  37. Optimal Common Contract with Heterogeneous Agents.

    Shenke Xiao, Zihe Wang, Mengjing Chen, Pingzhong Tang, Xiwang Yang. AAAI-20.

  38. Bounded Incentives in Manipulating the Probabilistic Serial Rule.

    Zihe Wang, Zhide Wei, Jie Zhang. AAAI-20.

  39. Inference from Auction Prices.

    Jason Hartline, Aleck Johnsen, Denis Nekipelov, Zihe Wang. SODA-20.

  40. Making Money from What You Know - How to Sell Information.

    Shani Alkoby, Zihe Wang, David Sarne, Pingzhong Tang. AAAI-19.

  41. Ex-post IR dynamic auctions with cost-per-action payments.

    Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang, Song Zuo. IJCAI-18.

  42. A tighter welfare guarantee for first-price auctions.

    Darrell Hoy, Sam Taggart, Zihe Wang. STOC-18.

  43. Optimal Mechanisms with Simple Menus.

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2017 (EC-2014).

  44. Hotelling-Downs Model with Limited Attraction.

    Weiran Shen, Zihe Wang. AAMAS-17.

  45. Computational Issues in Time-Inconsistent Planning.

    Yifeng Teng, Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Shengke Xiao, Yichong Xu. AAAI-17.

  46. Optimal Commitments in Auctions with Incomplete Information.

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang. EC-2016.

  47. Optimal Auctions for Negatively Correlated Items.

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang. EC-2016.

  48. Optimal Auctions for Partially Rational Bidders.

    Zihe Wang, Pingzhong Tang. IJCAI-2015.

  49. Optimal Mechanisms with Simple Menus

    Pingzhong Tang, Zihe Wang. EC-2014.