Nicolas XY Zhang
French Ingénieur des Mines, working on privacy-preserving computations for economic and social design (auctions, matching, clearing and netting, risk sharing agreements...). Currently at MIT, doing my research under the guidance of Professors Robert M. Townsend and Vinod Vaikuntanathan - www.leadmit.com
Project portfolio
Current working papers
Monetary anchoring and inflation - through multiagent multiperiod computational modelling
Building exchanges for economic contracts - definitions and prototypes
Interactive notebooks and demo
Interactive privacy-preserving communication/negotiation app demo
Interactive privacy-preserving auctions run through
Continuing projects and companies
- Cardabel - Unsupervised learning for financial fraud detection (first employee & member of cofounding team)
- Acoustic Wells - deploying dynamic system modelling through IoT and AI (data scientist and handyman)
- A not-yet RCTed project aiming at developing agricultural self-sufficience in remote Burkinabe villages (project coordinator 2013-2015)
- Bayes Impact x Data for Good - a grassroot experiment at defining values and organizing volunteering within the data science community (core organizer 2016-2018)
- AlgoTransparency - one of Data for Good’s most impactful and covered project
- 2 personal articles, 1 report and dozens of interviews I lead on AI and on the dynamics of adoption of new technologies in the financial sector, 1970-now, in the Revue des Ingénieurs des Mines (member of the editorial comittee, 2016-2018)
- All the above and beyond - some personal musing on Medium