Short Bio (full resume, 中文版):
Born in China, B.Sc. from Macau (2006), Double M.Sc. from Germany & Spain (2009), Double PhD from Australia & France (2012),
Postdoc working with Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu, Japan) (2013 - 2014) and
Research Fellow working with Nick Jennings (Imperial, UK) (2014 - 2017),
Assistant Professor (2017/01 - 2023/01), then Associate Professor (2023/02 - ) at ShanghaiTech (Shanghai, China) and lead The ShanghaiTech Multi-Agent systems Research Team (SMART). Zhao was elected as a member of the IFAAMAS Board of Directors in 2022, the first representative from a Chinese institution since IFAAMAS was founded in 2002. He is an Associate Editor of JAAMAS. He is a senior member of IEEE and the China Computer Federation (CCF). He was program/track co-chair of DAI 2021, Workshop Track of PRICAI 2021, Competitions Track of IJCAI 2022, Demo and Competitons Track of AAMAS 2023, and Survey Track of IJCAI 2024. He is a local co-chair of WINE 2023. He was invited to give an Early Career Spotlight talk at IJCAI-ECAI 2022.
News:
[Active] I am currently hiring Post-docs/Reserach Assistants working on Algorithmic Game Theory at ShanghaiTech University. Please contact me directly if you are interested in.
[2024-04] Our AAMAS-24 paper "Incentives for Early Arrival in Cooperative Games" has been nominated for the Best Paper Award.
[2022-04-22] I was elected as a member of IFAAMAS Board of Directors, the first representative from a Chinese institution since IFAAMAS was founded in 2002.
Most of Zhao’s research is on algorithmic game theory and multi-agent systems, especially mechanism design and its applications on social networks. He pioneered and promoted a new trend of mechanism design on social networks, namely how to incentivize the existing participants of a game to invite new participants via their social connections. For this research challenge, Zhao’s group have made several seminal contributions in auctions, coalitional games and matching with over 20 high-quality papers. He has also contributed a blue sky paper at AAMAS 2021 to set up the related research agenda and offered four tutorials at AAAI 2022, AAMAS 2019 and IJCAI 2017/2018. He was invited to give an Early Career Spotlight talk at IJCAI-ECAI 2022.
Dengji Zhao, Bin Li, Junping Xu, Dong Hao, Nick Jennings:
Selling Multiple Items via Social Networks.
(Reviews,
Presentation,
Poster)
In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-18, acceptance rate 25%, 760 submissions) A typo in the key result was corrected and explained in this note or check this arXiv version.
Bin Li, Dong Hao, Dengji Zhao, Tao Zhou:
Customer Sharing in Economic Networks with Costs.
(Reviews,
Presentation,
Poster)
In the Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18, acceptance rate 20%, 3470 submissions)
Yao Zhang, He Wang, Jingxian Huang, Dengji Zhao:
Simulations vs. Human Playing in Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma.
(Reviews,
Presentation,
Poster)
In the Proceedings of The 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-18, acceptance rate 26%)
Bin Li, Dong Hao, Dengji Zhao, Tao Zhou:
Mechanism Design in Social Networks.
(Reviews,
Presentation)
In the Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17, acceptance rate 25%, 2590 submissions)
Dengji Zhao, Dongmo Zhang, Enrico Gerding, Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo:
Incentives in Ridesharing with Deficit Control.
(Reviews,
Presentation,
Poster)
In the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-14, acceptance rate 24%, 709 submissions)
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Valentin Robu, Dengji Zhao, Nick Jennings:
Two-Sided Online Markets for Electric Vehicle Charging.
(Reviews,
Presentation)
In the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-13, acceptance rate 23%, 612 submissions)
Dengji Zhao, Stephan Schiffel, and Michael Thielscher:
Decomposition of Multi-Player Games.
(Reviews,
Presentation)
AI 2009 LNAI 5866, pp. 475--484. Springer, Heidelberg (2009) (acceptance rate 38%, 174 submissions).
