Faculty Profiles - FENG Yiding | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yiding FENG
馮逸丁

PhD in Computer Science
Northwestern University, 2021

Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Google Scholar

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ORCID

0000-0002-8258-6994

ResearcherID

KYP-4106-2024

Scopus ID

57205381256

Research Interest

Operations research
Theoretical computer science
Optimization
Revenue management
Game theory

Publications

2026 7

No-Regret Bayesian Recommendation to Homogeneous Users

Operations Research
FENG, Yiding; TANG, Wei; Xu, Haifeng
Article

Beyond Regularity: Simple versus Optimal Mechanisms, Revisited

Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2025, IEEE, 2026, p. 303-342article number 11369098
Feng, Yiding; Jin, Yaonan
Conference paper

Contextual Search in Principal-Agent Games: The Curse of Degeneracy

Proceedings of the 2026 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) / edited by Larsen Kasper Green; Saha Barna. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2026, p. 1666-1723
Feng, Yiding; Ma, Mengfan; Peng, Bo; Wan, Zongqi
Conference paper

Online Job Assignment

Web and Internet Economics / edited by Bilò Vittorio; Cai Yang; Huang Zhiyi. Springer Cham, 2026, p. 773
Ekbatani, Farbod; FENG, Yiding; Kash, Ian; NIAZADEH, Rad
Conference paper

Persuasive Calibration

Proceedings of the 2026 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) / edited by Larsen Kasper Green; Saha Barna. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2026, p. 4660-4691
FENG, Yiding; Tang, Wei
Conference paper

Price of Non-discrimination in Public Combinatorial Contracts

Web and Internet Economics - 20th International Conference, WINE 2024, Proceedings / edited by Mavronicolas Marios; Qi Qi; Schoenebeck Grant. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2026, p. 25-41
FENG, Yiding; Ma, Mengfan; Xiao, Mingyu
Conference paper

Robustness of Online Inventory Balancing to Inventory Shocks

Web and Internet Economics / edited by Bilò Viuttorio; Cai Yang; Huang Zhiyi. Springer Cham, 2026, p. 783
FENG, Yiding; NIAZADEH, Rad; Saberi, Amin
Conference paper

2025 5

Batching and Optimal Multistage Bipartite Allocations

Management Science, v. 71, (5), p. 4108-4130
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad
Article

Competition Complexity in Multi-item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity

Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, p. 89
BEYHAGHI, Hedyeh; CAI, Linda; FENG, Yiding; LI, Yingkai; WEINBERG, S. Matthew
Conference paper

Confusion Matrix Design for Downstream Decision-Making

Paper presented at Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), p. 49
Feng, Yiding; Tang, Wei
Conference paper

On the Efficiency of Fair and Truthful Trade Mechanisms

Paper presented at EC '25: 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 512
BABAIOFF, Moshe; FENG, Yiding; MANAKER MORAG, Noam
Conference paper

Robust Dynamic Staffing with Predictions

Paper presented at EC '25: 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 87
FENG, Yiding; MANSHADI, Vahideh; NIAZADEH, Rad; NEYSHABOURI, Saba
Conference paper

2024 5

Technical Note—Near-Optimal Bayesian Online Assortment of Reusable Resources

Operations Research, v. 72, (5), p. 1861-1873
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin
Article

Two-Stage Stochastic Matching and Pricing with Applications to Ride Hailing

Operations Research, v. 72, (4), p. 1574-1594
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin
Article

Mobility Data in Operations: Multi-Location Facility Location Problem

Paper presented at EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 201
Candogan, Ozan; Feng, Yiding
Conference paper

Rationality-Robust Information Design: Bayesian Persuasion under Quantal Response

Paper presented at 35th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2024, Alexandria, United States, p. 501-546
Feng, Yiding; Ho, Chien Ju; Tang, Wei
Conference paper

Strategic Budget Selection in a Competitive Autobidding World

STOC 2024 - Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing / edited by Mohar Bojan; Shinkar Igor; ODonnell Ryan. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 213-224
Feng, Yiding; Lucier, Brendan; Slivkins, Aleksandrs
Conference paper

2023 4

Competitive Information Design for Pandora's Box

34th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 353-381
Ding, Bolin; Feng, Yiding; Ho, Chien Ju; Tang, Wei; Xu, Haifeng
Conference paper

Dynamic Pricing and Learning with Bayesian Persuasion

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 - 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2023 / edited by Oh A.; Neumann T.; Globerson A.; Saenko K.; Hardt M.; Levine S.. Neural information processing systems foundation, 2023,
Agrawal, Shipra; Feng, Yiding; Tang, Wei
Conference paper

Online Resource Allocation with Buyback: Optimal Algorithms via Primal-Dual

EC 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023, p. 583
Ekbatani, Farbod; Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad
Conference paper

Simple Mechanisms for Non-linear Agents

34th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 3802-3816
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai
Conference paper

2022 4

Controlling Epidemic Spread: Reducing Economic Losses with Targeted Closures

Management Science, v. 68, (5), p. 3175-3195
Birge, John R.; Candogan, Ozan; Feng, Yiding
Article

Bias-Variance Games

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 328-329
Gradwohl, Ronen; Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason; Johnsen, Aleck; Nekipelov, Denis
Conference paper

Near-Optimal Bayesian Online Assortment of Reusable Resources

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 964-965
Feng, Yiding; Saberi, Amin; Niazadeh, Rad
Conference paper

Online Bayesian Recommendation with No Regret

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 818-819
Feng, Yiding; Xu, Haifeng; Tang, Wei
Conference paper

2021 3

Batching and Optimal Multi-Stage Bipartite Allocations

Paper presented at Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), p. 3.66736111111111
Feng, Yideng; Niazadeh, Rad
Conference paper

Revelation gap for pricing from samples

STOC 2021 - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing / edited by Khuller Samir; Williams Virginia Vassilevska. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, p. 1438-1451
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai
Conference paper

Two-stage stochastic matching with application to ride hailing

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2021 / edited by Marx Daniel. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, p. 2862-2877
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin
Conference paper

2020 1

Global concavity and optimization in a class of dynamic discrete choice models

37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020 / edited by Daume Hal; Singh Aarti. International Machine Learning Society (IMLS), 2020, p. 3063-3072
Feng, Yiding; Khmelnitskaya, Ekaterina; Nekipelov, Denis
Conference paper

2019 1

Optimal auctions vs. anonymous pricing: Beyond linear utility ?

ACM EC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019, p. 885-886
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai
Conference paper

2018 1

An end-to-end argument in mechanism design (Prior-independent auctions for budgeted agents)

Proceedings - 59th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2018 / edited by Thorup Mikkel. IEEE Computer Society, 2018, p. 404-415article number 8555124
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.
Conference paper

Article 1

No-Regret Bayesian Recommendation to Homogeneous Users

Operations Research
FENG, Yiding; TANG, Wei; Xu, Haifeng

Conference paper 6

Beyond Regularity: Simple versus Optimal Mechanisms, Revisited

Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2025, IEEE, 2026, p. 303-342article number 11369098
Feng, Yiding; Jin, Yaonan

Contextual Search in Principal-Agent Games: The Curse of Degeneracy

Proceedings of the 2026 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) / edited by Larsen Kasper Green; Saha Barna. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2026, p. 1666-1723
Feng, Yiding; Ma, Mengfan; Peng, Bo; Wan, Zongqi

Online Job Assignment

Web and Internet Economics / edited by Bilò Vittorio; Cai Yang; Huang Zhiyi. Springer Cham, 2026, p. 773
Ekbatani, Farbod; FENG, Yiding; Kash, Ian; NIAZADEH, Rad

Persuasive Calibration

Proceedings of the 2026 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) / edited by Larsen Kasper Green; Saha Barna. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2026, p. 4660-4691
FENG, Yiding; Tang, Wei

Price of Non-discrimination in Public Combinatorial Contracts

Web and Internet Economics - 20th International Conference, WINE 2024, Proceedings / edited by Mavronicolas Marios; Qi Qi; Schoenebeck Grant. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2026, p. 25-41
FENG, Yiding; Ma, Mengfan; Xiao, Mingyu

Robustness of Online Inventory Balancing to Inventory Shocks

Web and Internet Economics / edited by Bilò Viuttorio; Cai Yang; Huang Zhiyi. Springer Cham, 2026, p. 783
FENG, Yiding; NIAZADEH, Rad; Saberi, Amin

Article 1

Batching and Optimal Multistage Bipartite Allocations

Management Science, v. 71, (5), p. 4108-4130
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad

Conference paper 4

Competition Complexity in Multi-item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity

Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, p. 89
BEYHAGHI, Hedyeh; CAI, Linda; FENG, Yiding; LI, Yingkai; WEINBERG, S. Matthew

Confusion Matrix Design for Downstream Decision-Making

Paper presented at Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), p. 49
Feng, Yiding; Tang, Wei

On the Efficiency of Fair and Truthful Trade Mechanisms

Paper presented at EC '25: 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 512
BABAIOFF, Moshe; FENG, Yiding; MANAKER MORAG, Noam

Robust Dynamic Staffing with Predictions

Paper presented at EC '25: 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 87
FENG, Yiding; MANSHADI, Vahideh; NIAZADEH, Rad; NEYSHABOURI, Saba

Article 2

Technical Note—Near-Optimal Bayesian Online Assortment of Reusable Resources

Operations Research, v. 72, (5), p. 1861-1873
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin

Two-Stage Stochastic Matching and Pricing with Applications to Ride Hailing

Operations Research, v. 72, (4), p. 1574-1594
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin

Conference paper 3

Mobility Data in Operations: Multi-Location Facility Location Problem

Paper presented at EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 201
Candogan, Ozan; Feng, Yiding

Rationality-Robust Information Design: Bayesian Persuasion under Quantal Response

Paper presented at 35th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2024, Alexandria, United States, p. 501-546
Feng, Yiding; Ho, Chien Ju; Tang, Wei

Strategic Budget Selection in a Competitive Autobidding World

STOC 2024 - Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing / edited by Mohar Bojan; Shinkar Igor; ODonnell Ryan. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, p. 213-224
Feng, Yiding; Lucier, Brendan; Slivkins, Aleksandrs

Conference paper 4

Competitive Information Design for Pandora's Box

34th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 353-381
Ding, Bolin; Feng, Yiding; Ho, Chien Ju; Tang, Wei; Xu, Haifeng

Dynamic Pricing and Learning with Bayesian Persuasion

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 - 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2023 / edited by Oh A.; Neumann T.; Globerson A.; Saenko K.; Hardt M.; Levine S.. Neural information processing systems foundation, 2023,
Agrawal, Shipra; Feng, Yiding; Tang, Wei

Online Resource Allocation with Buyback: Optimal Algorithms via Primal-Dual

EC 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2023, p. 583
Ekbatani, Farbod; Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad

Simple Mechanisms for Non-linear Agents

34th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 3802-3816
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai

Article 1

Controlling Epidemic Spread: Reducing Economic Losses with Targeted Closures

Management Science, v. 68, (5), p. 3175-3195
Birge, John R.; Candogan, Ozan; Feng, Yiding

Conference paper 3

Bias-Variance Games

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 328-329
Gradwohl, Ronen; Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason; Johnsen, Aleck; Nekipelov, Denis

Near-Optimal Bayesian Online Assortment of Reusable Resources

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 964-965
Feng, Yiding; Saberi, Amin; Niazadeh, Rad

Online Bayesian Recommendation with No Regret

Paper presented at EC '22: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, p. 818-819
Feng, Yiding; Xu, Haifeng; Tang, Wei

Conference paper 3

Batching and Optimal Multi-Stage Bipartite Allocations

Paper presented at Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), p. 3.66736111111111
Feng, Yideng; Niazadeh, Rad

Revelation gap for pricing from samples

STOC 2021 - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing / edited by Khuller Samir; Williams Virginia Vassilevska. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, p. 1438-1451
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai

Two-stage stochastic matching with application to ride hailing

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2021 / edited by Marx Daniel. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, p. 2862-2877
Feng, Yiding; Niazadeh, Rad; Saberi, Amin

Conference paper 1

Global concavity and optimization in a class of dynamic discrete choice models

37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020 / edited by Daume Hal; Singh Aarti. International Machine Learning Society (IMLS), 2020, p. 3063-3072
Feng, Yiding; Khmelnitskaya, Ekaterina; Nekipelov, Denis

Conference paper 1

Optimal auctions vs. anonymous pricing: Beyond linear utility ?

ACM EC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019, p. 885-886
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai

Conference paper 1

An end-to-end argument in mechanism design (Prior-independent auctions for budgeted agents)

Proceedings - 59th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2018 / edited by Thorup Mikkel. IEEE Computer Society, 2018, p. 404-415article number 8555124
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.

2020 1

Global concavity and optimization in a class of dynamic discrete choice models

37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2020 / edited by Daume Hal; Singh Aarti. International Machine Learning Society (IMLS), 2020, p. 3063-3072
Feng, Yiding; Khmelnitskaya, Ekaterina; Nekipelov, Denis
Conference paper

2019 1

Optimal auctions vs. anonymous pricing: Beyond linear utility ?

ACM EC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019, p. 885-886
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.; Li, Yingkai
Conference paper

2018 1

An end-to-end argument in mechanism design (Prior-independent auctions for budgeted agents)

Proceedings - 59th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2018 / edited by Thorup Mikkel. IEEE Computer Society, 2018, p. 404-415article number 8555124
Feng, Yiding; Hartline, Jason D.
Conference paper

Teaching Assignment

IEDA3410	Routing and Fleet Management
IEDA4000C	Online Markets
IEDA4920	Decision Analytics Final Year Project
IEDA4960	Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Final Year Project

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

CHEN, Sijin
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
LUO, Zihan
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
QIAN, Liuhan
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Master of Philosophy

ZHANG, Tianshuo
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

No Projects.
Combinatorial Contextual Dynamic Pricing

組合情境動態定價 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
FENG Yiding (Lead)
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Publications

2026 7

2025 5

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2023 4

2022 4

2021 3

2020 1

2019 1

2018 1

Article 1

Conference paper 6

Article 1

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Article 2

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 4

Article 1

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 3

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

2020 1

2019 1

2018 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 September 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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