Publications

In computer science, conference papers undergo a rigorous peer-review process and serve as the main venue for publishing research. (α–β) indicates that authors are listed alphabetically by last name; otherwise, the order reflects their contributions.

Preprints & Papers under Review

• Contracting with a Mechanism Designer
  (α–β) with Tian Bai, Yiding Feng, Yaohao Liu and Mingyu Xiao

• Facility Location Games Beyond Single-Peakedness: the Entrance Fee Model
  Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao, Tian Bai, Bakh Khoussainov

Conferences & Journals

• Contextual Search in Principal-Agent Games: The Curse of Degeneracy
  (α–β) with Yiding Feng, Bo Peng and Zongqi Wan
  The 37th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2026)

• Towards subversion-resistant password-protected encryption for deduplicated cloud storage
  Shanshan Li, Mengfan Ma, Yunxia Han, Chunxiang Xu
  Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), 2025

• Price of Non-Discrimination in Public Combinatorial Contracts
  (α–β) with Yiding Feng and Mingyu Xiao
  The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2024)

• Facility Assignment with Fair Cost Sharing: Equilibrium and Mechanism Design
  Mengfan Ma, Tian Bai, Xin Cheng, Mingyu Xiao
  The 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024)

• Facility location games with entrance fees
  Mengfan Ma, Mingyu Xiao, Tian Bai, Bakh Khoussainov
  The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023)

• A vertex-separator-based integer linear programming formulation for the partitioned Steiner tree problem
  Mengfan Ma, Ziyang Men, André Rossi, Yi Zhou, Mingyu Xiao
  Computers & Operations Research (COR), 2023