Summer 2000 Research

This summer, I am doing research at Brown University, in the Computer Science Department. I am being funded through the Distributed Mentor Project (DMP), which is sponsored by the Computing Research Association (CRA). The DMP matches female undergraduates with female professors at graduate institutions across the country. The objective of the program is to encourage more women to pursue graduate school in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

My mentor is Amy Greenwald. Her primary research interest is multi-agent learning on the Internet. She's a wonderful person, and she's very interesting, so visit her web page to learn about her.

The project that we have picked out for the summer deals with the behavior of intelligent agents in continuous double auctions (such as the stock market). Rajarshi Das and Gerald Tesauro at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center have developed a simulator that we are using to design and test such agents. By the end of the summer, we hope to build an actual agent that will participate alongside humans in Steve Gjerstad's experimental CDAs.