I'm a second-year graduate student within the Economics and Theory group of the EECS Department at Northwestern, currently advised by Jason Hartline. My interests broadly lie in overlaps of computer science (especially theory) with game theory and economics. When time allows, I play with maps and bikes over at sweetopenroads.com.
research interests
- Risk aversion in network routing games. In most real world settings, players in routing games are risk averse - yet few models have been generated to support this. How do these games differ from the risk-neutral setting? Do results carry over? Can players efficiently figure out their best strategy?
- Risk aversion in mechanism design - how can we deal with players having differing degrees of risk aversion when designing mechanisms?
- Graph algorithms - encoding, routing and everything else.
publication(s)
- Equilibria of atomic flow games are not unique, SODA 2009 (with Umang Bhaskar, Lisa Fleischer and Chien-Chung Huang).
contact
- email: darrell dot hoy at gmail
- office: Ford 3-227
