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Mengxiao Zhang

Assistant Professor

Current Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Business Analytics

Research Interests

  • Online learning, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory

Selected Publications

  • Zhang, M. & Luo, H. Contextual Multinomial Logit Bandits with General Value Functions. In Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024.
  • Zhang, M., Vuong, R. D., & Luo, H. No-Regret Learning for Fair Multi-Agent Social Welfare Optimization. In Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024.
  • Zhang, M., Pattathil, S., Slivkins, A., & Lucier, B. Autobidders with Budget and ROI Constraints: Efficiency, Regret, and Pacing Dynamics. In Proceedings of Conference on Learning Theory 2024.
  • Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Luo, H., & Mineiro, P. Provably Efficient Interactive-Grounded Learning with Personalized Reward. In Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024. Vancouver, Canada.

Selected Presentations

  • "No-Regret Learning for Fair Multi-Agent Social Welfare Optimization," Poster at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2025.
  • "Provably Efficient Interactive-Grounded Learning with Personalized Reward," Poster at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2025.
  • "New Challenges for (Contextual) Multi-Armed Bandits: Fairness Objectives, Indirect Feedback, and Beyond," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, February 2025.
  • "Contextual Multinomial Logit Bandits with General Value Functions," Poster at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2024.

Employment History

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Business Analytics, University of Iowa, 2024