| Staff position: | Lecturer |
| E-mail: | sphelps (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone number: | 4414 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Room: | 5A.535 |
| Office hours: | Tuesday 13:30 - 16:00 (by appointment) |
| Biography: | My research focuses on the application of agent-based simulation to economic analysis, and encompasses topics crossing several disciplines: finance (trading strategies & market structure), economics (game theory, auction theory, mechanism design) and computer-science/complexity (multi-agent reinforcement-learning, design of co-evolutionary algorithms, complex adaptive systems).
Before coming to Essex, I worked on the EPSRC-funded Market-based Control of Complex Computational Systems project developing a novel technique for market design (evolutionary mechanism design) in which I applied techniques from agent-based modeling, evolutionary computation and heuristic optimization to the mechanism design problem. More recently, I have been applying agent-based modeling and evolutionary game-theory to the study of social networks and the emergence of cooperation via indirect reciprocity.
I also have commercial experience of the E-business sector, having worked as a consultant for a professional-services company delivering web-based auction solutions, with over ten years of commercial software engineering experience. I co-founded two startup companies: Ripple Software Ltd. which developed econometric analysis tools for power-sellers in the eBay market place, and Victria Ltd, which developed a prototype dark-pool trading platform. |
| Research interests: |
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Mechanism Design
- Agent-based Modeling in Finance & Economics
- Evolution of Cooperation
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| Publications: | Link to publications for Steve Phelps |