Yanwei Sun

Welcome! I am a fourth-year (2022 Fall) PhD student of Analytics & Operations at Imperial Business School, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jiahua Wu and Prof. Chiwei Yan. I was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley during the 2024–2025 academic year, hosted by Prof. Chiwei Yan.

Broadly speaking, my research focuses on designing and operating modern platforms and market mechanisms in settings with strategic agents and informational frictions. My research has two primary thrusts: (1) managing strategic interactions through the design of information structures and market rules in platform operations, and (2) harnessing AI-driven predictions to design more effective market mechanisms, encompassing both AI-assisted mechanism design and marketplace design for AI agents.

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What's New

Feb 2026

New work about "Pricing AI as a Service"!
Updated version of "Information Design in Lead-selling Platforms" — characterizing optimal public mechanisms, extended to dynamic settings and multiple leads

Dec 2025

New preprint: "Optimal Privacy with Coarse Labels in Screening Markets"
"Three-sided marketplace design" received Minor Revision at Management Science
My pre-doctoral work "Restricting Entries to All-Pay Contests" accepted by International Journal of Game Theory

Sep 2025 "Prediction-based prescreening" accepted by WINE 2025

Apr 2025 Fully-funded invitation to the ISyE-MS&E-IOE Joint Rising Stars Workshop