Graduate Student, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Research Student
Thesis Title: Information and Collective Decision Making in Human and Animal Networks
About
In my doctoral research, I am interested in the mathematics of group behaviour, in particular where the group is uncertain about some aspect of their environment.
Under that broad programme, I focus on how information affects the behaviour of groups, for example how they organise themselves or how they process or make use of information.
Formally, my research lies in the area of complex behaviour systems, where a system is defined as a collection of objects endowed with a set of rules that govern their interaction and a behavioural system could be one in which the objects in consideration can make choices about their actions. In this case, the objects are sometimes referred to as 'players' or 'agents'.
In my academic research and professional practice, I am especially interested in one type of behaviour: the behaviour of collective decision-making. Here we could examine how the individuals behave in response to their information -- whether they hide or reveal it, how the information is shared, perhaps directly through communication or indirectly through their actions -- or properties of the decision itself -- the accuracy of the choice or the speed with which it’s made, for example.
There are far more questions here than can be answered within our lifetime and a great deal of foundation is missing, or at least it is not yet neatly assembled in such a way that makes it accessible. Through the actions of discover and synthesise, my efforts are focused on the mathematical underpinning of such a foundation. Tools from epistemology, game theory, statistics, and complex systems all form constituent parts in some underlying formalism that has yet to be discovered.
At Unilever Plc I am an active member of the analytics and information management work force. My role there is both informative for my research and benefactor of it.
At the IMS Project I am interested in a renegotiation of the rules and demarcating features between art and mathematics, constantly looking for more playful ways to pursue my research.
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