SHI Yongren

Hi, everyone,

I am Yong-ren Shi. I am a graduate student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and will move to sociology department of cornell university this fall. I am very happy to come to Beijing to join you at this fascinating summer school!!

My research interests are agent based modeling and on-line social networks, but generally, my thoughts may go beyond many disciplines from biology to economics. Because all these systems could be framed into the new term of complex systems. The systematical thinking may bring us new insights of many hard tackled problems, like the origin of life, language, the evolution of social and economical systems. Simulation and data mining on large-scale data may be two principal approaches to these problems.

Coming to Santa Fe Summer School must be a exciting journey to this field.

Contact me at yongren_shi@163.com

NICE TO MEET YOU! :)

1. What topics do you have some expertise in and would you be willing to help others learn them? I have many experiences in agent based modeling for complex system, especially using the RePast package to model the social-economical systems. I hope to assist you to deal with the modeling part of the complex system research.

2. What do you want to learn at the CSSS? One has to have an interdisciplinary background if some analogy wants to be made between different complex systems, from ecology to economics. I want to learn from different minds and different disciplines to get a more general but also more specific picture of different systems. As a social science researcher, the mostly part I want to learn is the biological systems and the ecosystems, which are the most complex system in the world, but also the originator of the social complexity.

3. Do you have any projects or research interests that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach? Not yet.

4. Do you have any ideas for what sort of project you would like to do this summer? To my expertise, I would like to work on the problems that are originated form the social interactions, like the social contagion on networks, in an agent based manner. But I don’t want to restrict into this field, any other projects about complex systems are good for me!

5. Suppose you could travel one-hundred years in the future and ask researchers any three questions. What would those questions be? Any general laws of biological and social systems? Could the life be rebuild in the silicon environment? The existing artificial life systems could not evolve any high creature. When could it be?