Bryce Wiedenbeck wins CSE Grad Honors Competition
first place! This is the annual competition featuring research presentations by advanced CSE PhD students. details here
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Ben Cassell defends dissertation
Ben-Alexander Cassell successfully defended his thesis today. Ben’s dissertation, entitled Scaling Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis, reports several practical advances in EGTA technology, methodology, and application. Congratulations, Ben.
Bartley Tablante defends thesis proposal
Congratulations, Bartley. It’s been a while since I’ve been on an Econ thesis committee. A very interesting discussion, with Bartley and my fellow committee members Tilman Borgers, David Miller, and Stephan Lauermann.
Elaine Wah defends thesis proposal
Congratulations to Elaine, on successfully defending her dissertation proposal, “Computational models of algorithmic trading in financial markets”. Her thesis committee members are Jacob Abernethy, Michael Barr (Law), Uday Rajan (Finance), and myself.
2d Annual Michigan AI Lab Mini-Symposium
Tuesday 29 April 2014, 3725 BBB A special symposium to present the latest research to come out of the Michigan AI Lab, and celebrate our research accomplishments. The program will comprise presentations by AI Lab grad students of research results presented at conferences over this academic year. All are welcome to attend. So that we […]
Arguments about “front running”
One of the brilliant rhetorical devices deployed by Michael Lewis in his public interviews about Flash Boys is referring to some HFT practices as “legal front running”. By inserting the “legal”, he takes off the table any accusations of lawbreaking. Nevertheless, defenders of HFT seem to cling to legalistic definitions of “front running” in making […]
Elaine Wah commentary in The Guardian
The Guardian comment piece on Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys and the HFT debate.
Elaine Wah Wins Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement
Congratulations, Elaine. The Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize recognizes outstanding research, leadership, and academic performance among College of Engineering graduate students. 2014 EECS winners (one per graduate program).
Bryce Wiedenbeck defends thesis proposal
Congratulations to Bryce, on successfully defending his dissertation proposal, “Approximate game theoretic analysis for large simulation-based games”. His thesis committee comprises Satinder Baveja, Grant Schoenebeck, Tilman Borgers (Economics), and myself.
Bryce Wiedenbeck wins Towner Prize: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor
Congratulations to SRG student Bryce Wiedenbeck: one of the 2014 winners of the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for outstanding GSI in Engineering. Award citation here.
