Speakers
Steve Bankes is Chief Technology Officer for Evolving Logic Inc., a software firm developing decision support systems for complex and deeply uncertain problems, and Professor of Information Science at the RAND Graduate School, where he teaches courses in Agent Based Modeling and Artificial Societies, and Policy Analysis for Complex Systems. He is also a member of the External Advisory Committee of the UCLA Human Complex Systems Program.
Dr. Bankes is the originator of the computational research methodologies known as “exploratory modeling”, which provide a basis for studying complex, adaptive, and incompletely understood systems through computational experiments. And he is the main designer of the Computer Assisted Reasoning system (CARs), a technology that facilitates robust decision support for many important problems in government and industry.
Dr. Bankes has over 50 publications in a variety of areas including computer science, operations research, global climate policy, sustainable development, computational social science, and neurophysiology. He received his B.S in Engineering from Caltech, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado. He holds two patents for software technology with two others pending. He is a recipient of the Barchi Prize, awarded by the Military Operations Research Society. He serves on the board of directors for the UCLA Center for Governance, and is a member of the UCLA Center for the Study of the Evolution & the Origin and Evolution of Life. His current research interests include computational science, modeling and simulation theory and practice, complex adaptive systems, machine learning and self-organizing systems, and agent based simulation of social systems.
Steve Bankes, Ph.D.
