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Bio. I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers–New Brunswick. I conduct research at the intersection of Computer Science, Economics, and Operations Research. I develop economic solutions, especially those with provable guarantees to be approximately optimal. My focus areas include Mechanism Design, Social Choice, Information Design, Market Design, and Algorithmic Fairness. At Rutgers, I am a member of the EconCS group and the CS theory group.

Before my current position, I spent time at Stanford University working with Moses Charikar and Aviad Rubinstein, and at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley for the program "Data-Driven Decision Processes". I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Kamesh Munagala. I interned twice at Google Research, hosted by Jieming Mao, Renato Paes Leme, and Aranyak Mehta. I received my bachelor's degree from Yao Class, Tsinghua University.

I have received an ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, a Duke CS Best Dissertation Award, and Best Paper Awards at SODA 2024 and WINE 2018.

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Email. kn.w [at] rutgers.edu