Chang Yu

Hi, I'm Chang, a first-year postgraduate student from Harbin Institute of Technology,China.I major in Public Policy Analysis.My research interests currently focus on public policy simulation and Next General Infrastructure. In my eyes, the beauty of complex systems is that simple rules can generate complicated and amazing systems, resulting in eternal novelty and new emergence.

I’m a new agent in complex science. It will be thrilling that talking,discussing and learning with you guys in SFI.

My curious projects are about my research directions. First one is social policy simulation. The complex thing is that anything involving human behavior has many variables. Under different policies, agents,stakeholders, show different behaviors and their intricate relationships emerge different results. We use policy simulation to compare and find out the most proper policy.

Speaking which, I’m gonna work on a local educational project. The unfair educational policy triggers unusual behaviors of public and private high schools, which directly affect the growing of students who are marginalized in middle school. I want to use game theory and agent-based modeling to analyze this problem .

Second one is about general infrastructures, like energy or power infrastructures. To some extent, these networked industries seem like social networks with agent interaction,acting based on a bounch of rules and reacting upon influences from outside.Especially under the situation of economic crisis, Chinese government plans to invest 400 billion on general infrastructures. My concern is how to use policies to improve the sustainability and resilience of general infrastructures.That would be my phd direction.With proper policies, the crisis could be convert to be an opportunity.

I love skating and skiing. Apparently neither of these can be done in desert,(∩_∩). I guess we may have plans to climb mountains or hiking or hanging out somewhere. Please feel free to contact me: may_vanessa2000@hotmail.com

I am looking forward to meeting you all soon in June. (Is there anyone who flies from China? Ok, I don’t think so.)