Yanwei Sun

Welcome! I am a fifth-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, I study marketplace design in settings where participants are self-interested and information is dispersed.

My recent research focuses primarily on markets for AI and markets with AI.

In markets for AI, I study how AI models and services should be priced and contracted.
In markets with AI, I examine how AI-driven predictions reshape market structures.

I have also worked on information design and pricing in platform operations, especially the interplay between information and pricing, and dynamic service operations, including three-sided marketplaces (e.g., food delivery systems) and on-off systems.

yanwei@imperial.ac.uk

I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.

What's New

Sep 2026 Our paper "Prices as Signals" (new work) was accepted to WINE'26!

Jul 2026 New work: "Pricing AI as a Service"!

May 2026 Our papers "Beyond One Shot: Contracting for Sequential Trials" (new manuscript) and "Optimal Privacy with Coarse Labels in Screening Markets" were accepted to EC'26!

Feb 2026 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" is accepted by International Journal of Game Theory

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

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