An Isotonic Mechanism for Overlapping Ownership
Working paper · 2026Major revision, Operations Research
Yifan Guo
Ph.D. Student in Operations, Information, and TechnologyStanford Graduate School of Business
I am a Ph.D. student in Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Data Science Scholar at Stanford Human-Centered AI.
I study the intersection of economics, operations, and AI. My research uses game theory, mechanism design, and information design to improve human–AI collaboration and decision-making. I received my B.S. in Mathematics with highest honor from the School of the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China.
Research interests
- Human–AI collaboration
- Mechanism design
- Information design
- Economics of AI
Research
How can we design information and incentives to help people make better decisions?
Human–AI collaboration
What should an algorithm highlight when human attention is limited?
Mechanism design
How can we elicit useful information from people with a stake in the outcome?
Information design
How should information be allocated when it spreads through a network?
Drawing onGame theoryBayesian decision theoryOptimizationAlgorithm design
Research Papers
Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human–AI Decision-Making
Working paper · 2026ESIF 2026
On Information Design with Spillovers
Working paper · 2025Major revision, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
Education
Stanford University
Ph.D. in Operations, Information, and Technology, Graduate School of Business · 2024–present
M.S. in Statistics · 2026–2027 (expected)
University of Science and Technology of China
B.S. in Mathematics, School of the Gifted Young · 2020–2024
Highest Honor
University of Chicago
Visiting Student · March–August 2023
Hosted by Prof. Haifeng Xu and Prof. Ozan Candogan
Teaching
Teaching assistant at Stanford and USTC.
Selected Honors
- Stanford Human-Centered AI Fellowship · 2026–2028
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship · 2024–2029
- Guo Moruo Scholarship, highest honor · 2024
- ICPC National Programming Contest, Gold Medal · 2024
- S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest, eighth in Applied Mathematics in the final · 2022
Service
I am a student lead of Evaluation of AI Evaluations, a Stanford Human-Centered AI student group (2026–2027). I served as Social Chair of the Stanford GSB PhD Association (2025–2026) and President of the USTC Programming Club (2021–2022).