Rui Ai

Ph.D. Student, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, USA Email: ruiai at mit dot edu

About me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Previously, I earned a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the National School of Development at Peking University. Here is a brief CV about me.

Research

My research interests include

• Machine Learning

• Reinforcement Learning

• Mechanism Design

• Information Design

• Agent Theory

Recent Publications

*: equal contribution or alphabetic ordering.

1. Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi and Feng Zhu, "Dynamic Service Fee Pricing under Strategic Behavior: Actions as Instruments and Phase Transition", NeurIPS 2024. [SSRN]

2. Rui Ai*, Zhaohua Chen*, Xiaotie Deng*, Yuqi Pan*, Chang Wang* and Mingwei Yang*, "On the Re-Solving Heuristic for (Binary) Contextual Bandits with Knapsacks", NeurIPS 2024. [arXiv]

3. Rui Ai, Boxiang Lyu, Zhaoran Wang, Zhuoran Yang and Michael I. Jordan, "A Reinforcement Learning Approach in Multi-Phase Second-Price Auction Design", 2022. [arXiv]

4. Rui Ai*, Chang Wang*, Chenchen Li, Jinshan Zhang, Wenhan Huang and Xiaotie Deng, "No-regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints", 2022. [arXiv]