I am an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego.

I lead the MINDS lab, where we study decision making and learning in networks (including network games, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and learning for optimization in networks/graphs), and the ethics and economics of AI (including data biases, algorithmic fairness, and strategic human-in-the-loop). Our research has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, Amazon, and Cisco.

Recent News

May 2025. I am honored to receive a 2025 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Undergraduate Research Hub at UCSD.

April 2025. Yifan successfully defended his PhD thesis "Accurate and Fair Decision Making from Biased and Distributed Datasets". Congratulations, Dr. Yang!

April 2025. Our paper "The Double-Edged Sword of Behavioral Responses in Strategic Classification: Theory and User Studies" has been accepted to FAccT 2025 (~26.8% acceptance rate). Congratulations, Raman!

March 2025. Roger's paper "MultiRepast4py: A Framework for Agent Based Simulations on Multilayer Networks", based on his undergraduate research as part of the SRIP program, has been accepted to the 26th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (at AAMAS'25). Congratulations, Roger!

March 2025. Yifan's paper "Adaptive Bounded Exploration and Intermediate Actions for Data Debiasing" has been accepted to the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Congratulations, Yifan!

March 2025. Shravi has been selected as a TRELS Scholar for Spring 2025, for her research on using AI to predict education outcomes. Congratulations, Shravi!

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