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Minimum About Me

My name in simplified Chinese: 陈炤桦 (Chén Zhàohuà).

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies (CFCS), School of Computer Science, Peking University, honored to be advised by Prof. Xiaotie Deng. I received my BSc (Summa Cum Laude) in artificial intelligence (Turing class) from Peking University, 2021. I visited The University of Hong Kong from May to October, 2025, hosted by Prof. Zhiyi Huang.

Research Interests

I am now working on various topics in the interplay of computer science and economics, also known as algorithmic game theory.

Selected Publications

Budget-Constrained Auctions with Unassured Reports: Strategic Equivalence and Structural Properties
Zhaohua Chen, Mingwei Yang, Chang Wang, Jicheng Li, and Xiaotie Deng
Major revision at Management Science
EC 2025 Workshop on Frontiers of Online Advertising (Spotlight)
Preliminary conference version appeared in WWW 2024

Contextual Decision-Making with Knapsacks Beyond the Worst Case
Zhaohua Chen, Rui Ai, Mingwei Yang, Yuqi Pan, Chang Wang, and Xiaotie Deng
NeurIPS 2024
arXiv: 2211.13952

Are Bounded Contracts Learnable and Approximately Optimal?
(αβ) Yurong Chen, Zhaohua Chen, Xiaotie Deng, and Zhiyi Huang
EC 2024
doi: 10.1145/3670865.3673483
arXiv: 2402.14486

Budget-Constrained Auctions with Unassured Priors: Strategic Equivalence and Structural Properties
Zhaohua Chen, Mingwei Yang, Chang Wang, Jicheng Li, Zheng Cai, Yukun Ren, Zhihua Zhu, and Xiaotie Deng
WWW 2024 (Oral)
doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645344
arXiv: 2203.16816
SSRN: 4071291

Dynamic Budget Throttling in Repeated Second-Price Auctions
Zhaohua Chen*, Chang Wang*, Qian Wang*, Yuqi Pan, Zhuming Shi, Zheng Cai, Yukun Ren, Zhihua Zhu, and Xiaotie Deng
AAAI 2024
arXiv: 2207.04690

Decentralized Asset Custody Scheme with Security against Rational Adversary
(αβ) Zhaohua Chen and Guang Yang
WINE 2021
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-94676-0_25
arXiv: 2008.10895
Cryptology ePrint Archive: 2020/1229

CycLedger: A Scalable and Secure Parallel Protocol for Distributed Ledger via Sharding
Mengqian Zhang*, Jichen Li*, Zhaohua Chen*, Hongyin Chen*, and Xiaotie Deng
IPDPS 2020 (Best paper nominee)
doi: 10.1109/IPDPS47924.2020.00045
arXiv: 2001.06778

Last updated: 2025-10-23.