Valentin Robu

I am a third-year PhD student at CWI, Dutch National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam.

My research mostly deals with simulation of electronic markets as coordination mechanisms between autonomous, self-interested agents. There are two main perspectives to be considered in this research: 1. modeling the structure of the market itself, such as to insure some desirable properties (e.g. incentive compatibility, revenue equivalence etc.), 2. modeling the preferences, risk attitude, learning and adaptation of the participating agents themselves and examining (through simulations) the effect they have, both on individual agent outcomes and the reached market equilibrium. In my work, I mostly take the second approach. In order to model agent learning, I use a variety of techniques including probabilistic learning, evolutionary computation, RL etc. If you want to know more about it, here is my homepage.