Sanith Wijesinghe

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I am an information systems engineer at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. I provide technical consulting and modeling support for a number of projects with the Internal Revenue Service and the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Prior to MITRE I worked on Wall Street for MillenniumIT a trading systems provider where I helped deploy low latency order matching systems for stock exchanges and implemented high frequency trading algorithms for hedge funds. I have a background in computational fluid dynamics and received my PhD from the Dept. of Aeronautics/Astronautics at MIT.

My current research interests are in analyzing the trading dynamics of Prediction Markets to understand how crowds synthesize information and perform ‘probability discovery’ of future events.

I very much look forward to engage with the faculty and students at the summer school in debating complex systems theories and concepts and am excited about the opportunity to learn from the many varied backgrounds that everyone brings to bear.