Hao Zhou   (周昊) Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford, UK, OX1 3QD Email: hao.zhou@cs.ox.ac.uk [Google Scholar] [Linkedin]

Short Bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford , working with Michael Wooldridge and Anisoara Calinescu. Prio to this, I received my PhD, supervised by Maria Kyropoulou and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, from the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex in 2023.

My research interests include algorithmic game theory, computational finance, and agent-based financial modelling. I am highly interested in reasoning about the strategic behaviours in large-scale financial networks from both game-theoretic and empirical perspectives, as well as the applications of reinforcement learning in finance and economics.

Recent News

• [2024.04] One full paper is accepted by IJCAI 2024.
• [2024.03] Invited to present a post at TAILOR 2024.
• [2024.01] Invited to give a talk at CCFEA seminar.
• [2023.08] A postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford, working with Michael Wooldridge and Anisoara Calinescu.
• [2023.05] One full paper is accepted by AAMAS 2023.
• [2022.03] One full paper is accepted by IJCAI-ECAI 2022.
• [2021.05] One full paper is accepted by ICAIF 2021.

Selected Publications

^{αβ denotes authors are ranked alphabetically [why?]; * denotes equal contributions; † denotes corresponding authors}

• [C4] A Strategic Analysis of Prepayments in Financial Credit Networks
  Hao Zhou^*†, Yongzhao Wang*, Konstantinos Varsos, Nicholas Bishop, Rahul Savani, Anisoara Calinescu, Michael Wooldridge
  In Proc. of the 33st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), (CCF A)
  
• [C3] Debt Transfers in Financial Networks: Complexity and Equilibria^αβ
  Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Maria Kyropoulou, Hao Zhou†
  In Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023), (CCF B)
  
• [C2] Forgiving Debt in Financial Network Games^αβ
  Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Maria Kyropoulou, Hao Zhou†
  In Proc. of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022), (CCF A)
  
• [C1] Financial Network Games^αβ
  Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Maria Kyropoulou, Hao Zhou†
  In Proc. of the 2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2021)
  

Selected Awards & Scholarships

• Poster Competitionof British Data Science Society Conference, 3rd Place, 10.2022
• Student scholarshipby AAMAS, 05.2022
• PhD scholarship by University of Essex, 2019-2023

Services

• ECAI 2024; ICML 2024: PC Member
• The 15th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), 2022: Organising Committee

Teaching & Lab Assistant & Marking

• Computational Game Theory, University of Oxford, 2023-2024
• Algorithmic Game Theory (CE322), University of Essex, 2020-2021,2022-2023
• Big-Data for Computational Finance (CF969), University of Essex, 2022-2023
• Machine Learning and Data Mining (CE802), University of Essex, 2022-2023
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning (CE889), University of Essex, 2021-2022

Sports

• Jiangxi university table tennis tournament, 2nd place, 2018
• China national second-grade athlete in table tennis, 2016