Hi! I’m a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Harvard University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Milind Tambe and Prof. Yiling Chen. My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, theoretical computer science, and economics. In particular, I am interested in applying economic principles, such as incentives, information, and strategic interactions, to design safer and more effective AI systems, as well as in studying how computational systems influence behavior, decision-making, and information flow in social platforms and markets.

I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Peking University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xiaotie Deng and Prof. Yuqing Kong. Additionally, I had a wonderful summer research experience at CMU, working with Prof. Steven Wu, Prof. Haifeng Xu (UChicago), and Prof. Shuran Zheng (Tsinghua University).

Working Papers

• Beyond Majority Voting: LLM Aggregation by Leveraging Higher-Order Information
  Rui Ai*, Yuqi Pan*, David Simichi-Levi, Milind Tambe, Haifeng Xu
  [arxiv]

Publications

• Adaptive Frontier Exploration on Graphs with Applications to Network-Based Disease Testing
  Davin Choo*, Yuqi Pan*, Tonghan Wang, Milind Tambe, Alastair van Heerden, Cheryl Johnson
  NeurIPS 2025
  [arxiv]
• Differentially Private Bayesian Persuasion
  Yuqi Pan, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Haifeng Xu, Shuran Zheng
  The Web Conference (WWW) 2025 (Oral)
  [arxiv]
• Robust Optimization with Diffusion Models for Green Security
  Lingkai Kong, Haichuan Wang, Yuqi Pan, Cheol Woo Kim, Mingxiao Song, Alayna Nguyen, Tonghan Wang, Haifeng Xu, Milind Tambe
  UAI 2025
  [arxiv]
• Finite-Horizon Single-Pull Restless Bandits: An Efficient Index Policy For Scarce Resource Allocation
  Guojun Xiong, Haichuan Wang, Yuqi Pan, Saptarshi Mandal, Sanket Shah, Niclas Boehmer, Milind Tambe
  AAMAS 2025
  [arxiv]
• Contextual Decision-Making with Knapsacks beyond Worst Cases
  Zhaohua Chen, Rui Ai, Mingwei Yang, Yuqi Pan, Chang Wang, Xiaotie Deng
  NeurIPS 2024
  [arxiv]
• Robust Decision Aggregation with Second-order Information
  Yuqi Pan, Zhaohua Chen, Yuqing Kong
  The Web Conference (WWW) 2024
  [arxiv]
• Dynamic Budget Throttling in Repeated Second-Price Auctions
  Zhaohua Chen*, Chang Wang*, Qian Wang*, Yuqi Pan, Zhuming Shi, Zheng Cai, Yukun Ren, Zhihua Zhu, Xiaotie Deng
  AAAI 2024
  [arxiv]
• Altruism, Collectivism and Egalitarianism: On a Variety of Prosocial Behaviors in Binary Networked Public Goods Games
  Jichen Li, Xiaotie Deng, Yukun Cheng, Yuqi Pan, Xuanzhi Xia, Zongjun Yang, Jan Xie
  AAMAS 2023
  [paper]

* indicates equal contribution.

Teachings

• 2023 Fall: Discrete Mathematics and Structures, PKU (TA)
• 2023 Spring: Study and Practice on Topics of Frontier Computing, PKU (TA)
• 2022 Fall: Discrete Mathematics and Structures, PKU (TA)

Last updated: Sep 2025