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Luyao Zhang

Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Preprints


Quantum Circuit Vision: Cost-Aware Evaluation of Visual AI Agents for Quantum Code Generation

Preprint · July 10, 2026 Can AI agents visually comprehend quantum circuit diagrams and generate verified executable code--and at what cost? We present Quantum Circuit Vision, a cost-aware evaluation framework for multimodal AI agents on quantum circuit visual understanding. We co ... Link to item Cite

SolarChain-Eval: A Physics-Constrained Benchmark for Trustworthy Economic Agents in Decentralized Energy Markets

Preprint · July 9, 2026 As agentic AI systems are increasingly applied to cyber-physical environments, their evaluation requires assessment of both task performance and trustworthiness. In decentralized energy markets, autonomous agents may improve market utility, but may also ex ... Link to item Cite

Agentic Analysis for Agentic Infrastructure: An LLM-Powered Pipeline for Comparative Governance of DAO and Corporate AI Protocols

Preprint · June 24, 2026 As AI agent protocols proliferate, the governance structures shaping their interoperability standards remain empirically underexamined. We introduce an LLM-powered comparative pipeline for large-scale governance discourse analysis, integrating automated an ... Link to item Cite

A Multi-Agent Audit Framework for High-Stakes Reasoning: Evaluation and Interpretability in Clinical Mental Health Screening

Preprint · June 19, 2026 High-stakes reasoning tasks necessitate transparent and verifiable workflows, yet conventional single-model large language models (LLMs) often struggle with hallucination and low interpretability under zero-shot paradigms. To address this general AI challe ... Link to item Cite

Quantum Cinema: An Interactive Cinematic Exploration of Quantum Computing Hardware via Generative World Models

Preprint · June 14, 2026 Quantum computing promises transformative advances across science and industry, yet the physical hardware that enables these computations remains invisible to the public: quantum processors operate inside sealed dilution refrigerators at temperatures near ... Link to item Cite

Culturally-Aware AI for Cross-Boundary Community Learning: Undergraduate Innovation at the Intersection of Computation and Design

Preprint · June 8, 2026 Research on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) is rapidly expanding, yet technical progress often lacks human-centered grounding and adequate attention to cultural context. Community-Based Learning, a pedagogy rooted in social work, remains underr ... Link to item Cite

Blockchain Infrastructure for Intelligent Cyber--Physical--Social Systems:Post-Quantum Security, Interoperability, and Trustworthy Data Economies in the Era of Embodied AI

Preprint · June 5, 2026 The deployment of embodied artificial intelligence via world-model-based robotics presents a transformative opportunity for blockchain infrastructure, establishing urgent demand for trustworthy data provenance, cross-organizational governance, and incentiv ... Link to item Cite

Sustainability by Design in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: An Empirical Review of Governance, Innovation, and Institutional Design

Preprint · June 3, 2026 Recent innovation theories on economics remain largely grounded in assumptions of hierarchical firms and closed organizational boundaries, offering limited insight into how innovation unfolds within decentralized, digitally native organizations. Decentrali ... Link to item Cite

QSignAI: Quantum-Randomness-Seeded Identity Signatures at the Intersection of AI for Science and Science for AI

Preprint · May 26, 2026 The 2024-2025 Nobel and Turing awards recognised AI and quantum science simultaneously. Yet no deployed system has brought these streams together for the public. This paper presents QSignAI, a production-deployed platform demonstrating a bidirectional AI-q ... Link to item Cite

SolarChain: Bridging Physical Law, Verifiable Trust, and Sustainable Markets for Urban Energy Resilience

Preprint · May 21, 2026 Urban decarbonization requires scaling rooftop solar across millions of fragmented producers, yet cities face a fundamental tension: energy data is easily manipulated, and economic incentives often reward speculation rather than actual infrastructure deplo ... Link to item Cite

Quantum Futures Interactive: A Live Demonstration of Post-Quantum Blockchain Security, Infrastructure Tradeoffs, and Sustainable Distributed Trust

Preprint · May 15, 2026 Advances in quantum computing challenge the hardness assumptions underlying widely deployed public-key cryptography in blockchain systems. Although post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards are emerging, understanding quantum risk remains fragmented across ... Link to item Cite

Cryptocurrency Valuation: An Explainable AI Approach

Preprint · January 30, 2022 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Optimal Algorithmic Monetary Policy

Preprint · April 16, 2021 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Deciphering Bitcoin Blockchain Data by Cohort Analysis

Preprint · February 27, 2021 Featured Publication Link to item Cite