News 🗞️
2025-06-30: Our paper "Fairness Behind the Veil" has been accepted by EC'25 Workshop on Information Economics × LLMs. Feel free to stop by our poster and chat! See you at Stanford!
About Me
I am a first-year PhD student in Operations Management (DOTM) at UCLA Anderson School of Management, advised by Auyon Siddiq.
Previously, I worked as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania's Crypto and Society Lab (CASL), mentored by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas.
I am broadly interested in algorithmic game theory, with a focus on the strategic behavior of economic agents in digital platforms. My current work explores how information shapes the dynamics of algorithmic collusion. Previously, I studied market design in decentralized finance (DeFi), particularly related to NFT wash trading and creator royalties.
Feel free to reach out if you would like to learn more about my research or talk about film photography.
Contents
Articles
Under Review / Working Papers
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"Can AI Detect Wash Trading? Evidence from NFTs", Falk, B., Tsoukalas, G., and Zhang, N. (2025).
Research Policy, Major Revision, under revision for resubmission. -
"Economics of NFTs: The Value of Creator Royalties", Falk, B., Gu, B., Tsoukalas, G., and Zhang, N. (2022).
Information Systems Research, Major Revision, resubmitted June 4, 2025.
In Preparation
- "Fairness Behind the Veil: Eliciting Social Preferences from Large Language Models", Dong, Y., Ma, M., Trigo, N., and Zhang, N. (2025)
Theses
- "Being An Artist Is Hard: Navigating the Dynamics of Money and Power", Zhang, N. (2021)
Guides / Projects
- DeFi Research Database data samples: uniswap, usdc, usdt.
- Ethereum log parser
- Monthly utility keeper
- Common problems for Windows and Linux dualboot
- GlobalProtect SSL failure on Linux
- How to write LaTeX with VSCode on Linux?
- SSH Basics
- Beautiful Git guide written by Roger Dudler
Notes
Partial solutions of Probability: Theory and Examples by Rick Durrett
Partial solutions of Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications by J. Michael Steele
Practice attempts of past Penn AMCS Preliminary exam
Selected notes from my prior math classes.