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Contact

Department of Computer Science
201-2366 Main Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z4

Office: ICCS x568
Phone: (604) 827-3924

jrwright@cs.ubc.ca

"That's your game theory? Rock Paper Scissors with statistics?"
— Peter Watts, Blindsight

James R. Wright

Hello, I'm James Wright. I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. I'm a member of the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. My supervisor is Kevin Leyton-Brown.

Research

I am interested in predicting how human agents behave in the presence of incentives, using models derived from experimental and behavioral economics. I recently conducted a meta-study of different cognitively motivated models of so-called "one-shot" interactions from behavioral game theory. My two current focuses are: (1) Refining the predictions of the best-performing one-shot model by incorporating additional elements of experimental models, and; (2) Expanding my focus to models of dynamic and repeated interactions, using data on real-world interactions.

Curriculum Vitae

My academic CV is available as both an HTML page and a PDF document.

Publications

Working Papers

Personal

I have a separate personal site for my hobby programming projects.

Last update: Oct 4/2012