Trung Dang

Ph.D. Student @ The University of Texas at Austin.

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2317 Speedway

Austin, TX 78705

Hi! I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Shuchi Chawla. Before joining UT, I was an undergraduate research assistant at Purdue University, working with Prof. Alex Psomas and Prof. Paul Valiant.

My primary research interest lies at the intersection of computer science and economics. My main focus includes mechanism design, prophet inequality and its variants, and algorithmic statistics. I am also interested in theoretical computer science in general, including machine learning theory and combinatorial algorithms.

I also have many interests apart from research, including competitive programming and rhythm games (see more in the projects page).

My full name in Vietnamese is Đặng Đoàn Đức Trung.

news

Sep 15, 2025 Our manuscripts of Multi-Unit Combinatorial Prophet Inequalities and Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap were accepted to WINE’25!
Apr 22, 2025 Our manuscript of Robust Max Selection was accepted to ISIT’25!
Oct 04, 2024 Our manuscript of OCRS for Subadditive Revenue Maximization was accepted to SODA’25!
Sep 22, 2023 Our manuscript of Optimality in Mean Estimation was accepted as a poster to NeurIPS’23!

selected publications

  1. SODA
    A Multi-Dimensional Online Contention Resolution Scheme for Revenue Maximization
    Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang, Zhiyi Huang, Gregory Kehne, and Rojin Rezvan
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2024
    arXiv
  2. WINE
    Multi-Unit Combinatorial Prophet Inequalities
    Shuchi Chawla, Trung Dang, Zhiyi Huang, and Yifan Wang
    In International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2025
    arXiv
  3. Manuscript
    Reward Selection with Noisy Observations
    Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Trung Dang, Aranyak Mehta, Alexandros Psomas, and Qian Zhang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05953, 2023
    arXiv