2022 - Designing and Constructing Models with Multi-Agent Languages

In the spring quarter of 2022, I served as a teaching assistant of COMP_SCI 372/472, an undergraduate/graduate class for agent-based modeling. I participated in the course and syllabus design; provided customized feedback for students each week; worked with 8 advanced undergraduate and graduate students on individual final projects; and taught several sections of the class.

Below is a short description of it (see more in our course website):

This course will cover various topics related to the discipline of computer simulation through multi-agent modeling (also called agent-based modeling). Multi-agent modeling specifically focuses on the study of systems where a large number of independent entities (agents) simultaneously interact with each other, resulting in emergent patterns of behavior for the system as a whole.

In particular, one of my undergraduate student has recently submitted an improved version of the final project paper to arXiv as well as JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation).

Wilkinson, J. T., Kelter, J., Chen, J., & Wilensky, U. (2024). A Network Simulation of OTC Markets with Multiple Agents. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02480.