Dr. Zhang's research situates the interface between computer science and economics. He is interested in understanding and characterizing the incentives of self-interested agents in competitive and cooperative environments. He analyses agents' decision-making processes and aligns their incentives with the objectives of a system designer by analytical methods. Ultimately, he evaluates and improves system performance in their equilibrium stages, under worst-case guarantees and beyond worst-case scenarios. He has publications in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences spanning the fields of artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, and mathematics. As the sole Investigator, Dr. Zhang has been awarded research grants by The Leverhulme Trust and EPSRC.

-- Algorithmic game theory, mechanism design 
-- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, multi-agent systems
-- Digital economy, optimization
-- Blockchain protocols and their applications

Dr. Zhang has worked/studied in the following universities (in reverse chronological order): University of Southampton, University of Oxford, Aarhus University, Harvard University, and the City University of Hong Kong.

If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. under Dr. Zhang's supervision, please get in touch by email.