Vitae of Randy Au

Randy Au

Email: ra247(at-nospam)cornell.edu

M.S. Student
Department of Communication
Cornell University

Education

2005 – B.S. Business, SUNY at Stony Brook
Double major in Philsophy
Minor in Applied Mathematics

Research Interests

Agent based modelling, simulation, large scale information presentation/visualisation, social networks, data aggregation and filtering, strategic decisions under imperfect knowledge, pricing of digital property,behavioral economics

Research Groups

2002-present

The Group for Logic and Formal Semantics at SUNY Stony Brook. Computational Philosophy Modeling prejudice

Papers in progress

“Modelling Prejudice Reduction: From a Dynamic Social Network perspective.

Works awaiting publication

“A Graphic Measure for Game-Theoretic Robustness,” with Patrick Grim, Nancy Louie, William Braynen, Evan Selinger, and Robert Rosenberger.

Publications

2005 – “Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis,” written with Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 19 pp.95-125

2004 – “Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis, ” written with Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. Artificial Life IX, MIT Press.

Research Reports

2004 – “Modeling Prejudice Reduction: Spatialized Game Theory and the Contact Hypothesis,” written with Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, William Braynen, Robert Rosenberger, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. Research Report #04-02, Group for Logic and Formal Semantics, Dept. of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook.

2002 – “A Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis,” written with Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. Research Report #02-02, Group for Logic and Formal Semantics, Dept. of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook

Presentations

“Prejudice Reduction in Artificial Societies: A Computational Model for the Contact Hypothesis,” Society for Machines and Mentality, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2003. Written with Patrick Grim Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, Will Braynen, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly.

“Reducing Prejudice: A Spatialized Game-Theoretic Model for the Contact Hypothesis, ” written with Patrick Grim, Evan Selinger, Robert Rosenberger, William Braynen, Nancy Louie, and John Connolly. ALIFE9, Boston, September 2004.

Previous research activities

Background research for “Computational Imaging for Philosophical Research, ” presented by Patrick Grim. Herbert A. Simon Keynote Address, scheduled for the National Computing and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2004.

Background research for “Concrete Images for Abstract Concepts: A Philosophical View”, presented by Patrick Grim. Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging: Technology, Representation, and the Disciplines, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 2004.

“Computationally implementing and statistically analyzing the methods discussed in “Partitioning Heuristics for Unit Demand Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems” by Herbert F. Lewis and Thomas R. Sexton,” SUNY Stony Brook, Harriman School for Management and Policy.