Xiaomeng Zhang received his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech and is currently an assistant professor at Nanjing Audit University.

My core academic interests focus on behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and human-machine interaction mechanisms. In recent years, my research has primarily investigated how algorithmic mediation reshapes social preferences and the impact of artificial intelligence on human cooperative behavior in principal-agent models and repeated games. By combining laboratory and field experiments, I aim to unpack individual economic decision-making processes under bounded rationality, exploring the driving forces of emotions, cognitive biases, and external environments.

Currently, I am advancing several interdisciplinary studies, including exploring human-machine interaction mechanisms mediated by large language models, and analyzing the non-linear relationship between the granularity of AI explanations and collaborative performance in financial decision-making. This research aims to provide micro-foundations for understanding economic behavior in the digital age.