Alec Sun

PhD student, Computer Science, University of Chicago

Joined

May 2025

Names

Alec Sun (Preferred)

Emails

****@uchicago.edu (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of Chicago (uchicago.edu)

2023 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2023 – Present

Expertise

Algorithmic game theory

Present

Market design

Present

Publications

Conservative classifiers do consistently well with improving agents: characterizing statistical and online learning
Dravyansh Sharma, Alec Sun
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
How to Sell a Service with Uncertain Outcomes
Krishnamurthy Iyer, Alec Sun, Haifeng Xu, You Zu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Solution to Exchanges 20.1 Puzzle: Communicating to Plan Noam Nisan's 60th Birthday Workshop
Alec Sun
- SIGecom Exch. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
The trace reconstruction problem for spider graphs
Alec Sun, William Yue
- Discret. Math. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Probabilistic zero forcing on grid, regular, and hypercube graphs
David Hu, Alec Sun
- Bull. ICA 2022
- Readers: Everyone
The White-Box Adversarial Data Stream Model
Miklós Ajtai, Vladimir Braverman, T. S. Jayram, Sandeep Silwal, Alec Sun, David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou
- 2022 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- PODS 2022
- Readers: Everyone
The White-Box Adversarial Data Stream Model
Miklós Ajtai, Vladimir Braverman, T. S. Jayram, Sandeep Silwal, Alec Sun, David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou
- 2022 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-sum subsequences in bounded-sum {-,}-sequences
Alec Sun
- J. Comb. Theory A 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Bounds on expected propagation time of probabilistic zero forcing
Shyam Narayanan, Alec Sun
- Eur. J. Comb. 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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