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2025-09-02: I wrapped up my first-year PhD summer paper "Too Noisy to Collude? Algorithmic Collusion Under Laplacian Noise". It’s now out as a working paper — warmly welcome comments!

About Me

I am a PhD student in Operations Management (DOTM) at UCLA Anderson School of Management, advised by Auyon Siddiq.

I am broadly interested in the strategic behavior of economic agents in digital platforms. My current work explores how information shapes the dynamics of algorithmic collusion and how large language models encode social preferences. In earlier projects, I studied market design in decentralized finance (DeFi), particularly related to NFT wash trading and creator royalties.

Previously, I worked as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania's Crypto and Society Lab (CASL), mentored by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas.

Feel free to reach out if you would like to learn more about my research or talk about film photography.

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Working Papers

"Too Noisy to Collude? Algorithmic Collusion Under Laplacian Noise", Zhang, N. (2025). Working Paper.
"Fairness Behind the Veil: Eliciting Social Preferences from Large Language Models", Dong, Y., M. Ma, N. Trigo, and N. Zhang (2025). In Preparation.

Submitted / Under Review / Under Revision

"Can AI Detect Wash Trading? Evidence from NFTs", Falk, B., G. Tsoukalas, and N. Zhang (2025).
Research Policy, Major Revision, resubmitted July 3, 2025.
"Economics of NFTs: The Value of Creator Royalties", Falk, B., B. Gu, G. Tsoukalas, and N. Zhang (2022).
Information Systems Research, Major Revision, under revision for resubmission.

Theses

"Being An Artist Is Hard: Navigating the Dynamics of Money and Power", Zhang, N. (2021).
Master's Thesis, cited in peer-reviewed research (e.g., Computers in Human Behavior, 2025).

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