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 In the News: Recent STIET PhD Eytan Bakshy's paper "The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion" is getting a lot of attention -- see Tech Crunch and Slate.

 News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, STIET fellow Leonard Kinniard-Heether, and REU student Tracy Liu won first place in the IEEE Super Mario Competition and best student paper prize at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Barcelona, Spain.

 Press Release -- World Wide Research Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys includes contributions by STIET faculty member, Steve Jackson, and STIET fellow, Cory Knobel.

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Full Name
Yan Chen
email address
yanchen@umich.edu
Phone Number
(734) 764-3271
Personal Home Page
http://www.si.umich.edu/~yanchen/
Address

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University of Michigan
3216 SI North
1075 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112

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Yan Chen is an associate professor of information. Previously, she was on the faculty of the U-M Economics Department. Her research interests are in information economics, including experimental economics, mechanism design, voting theory, and public finance.

"The fundamental challenge my research addresses is the design of robust economic mechanisms when agents are not perfectly rational," she says. Mechanism design theory assumes people are perfectly rational and can reach an equilibrium instantly in an economic situation. Chen's research looks at questions of how people really learn in such situations, what types of mechanisms aid that learning, and whether such learning can eventually lead to the states of "equilibrium" predicted by theory. She conducts both theoretical and experimental research, bringing human subjects into the laboratory to work with economic games.

First name
Yan
Last name
Chen
Department
Associate Professor of Information

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