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Wei Pan (潘巍)panwei --@AT@-- media.mit.eduE15-388 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 02139 |
Connectedness Meets Finance
My works are about humans, interactions, networks, big data and mobile-phone-based instrumentation. I am in the Human Dynamics Group led by my advisor Sandy Pentland.
I try to understand complex social systems. In past I have worked on many other social systems from small groups to a neighborhood and even the whole United States(in DARPA Red Balloon Challenge). Now I focus on financial markets and financial systems, as I believe many research efforts in computational social science can be applied to financial systems: Like social systems, financial systems are composed of the connected networks of entities. Like social systems, financial systems are often dominated under social influence dynamics. Like social systems, big-data driven approaches can open new opportunities in financial markets.
Bio
I am a graduate student in the Human Dynamics Group of MIT Media Lab. Before that, I spent two years in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College, also as a graduate student. I received my B.Eng. from Tsinghua University in 2007, in computer science. I've worked in Fidelity Investments, Google Research China and a couple of start-ups.News
September 2012: Presenting new work on how social network dynamics affect traders' decisions in financial markets in SocialCom 2012. Please read the paper here.
June 2012: This summer I work for Fidelity Investments as a researh analyst, studying social complexity models for financial markets.
June 2012: I won the "Best Contributed Talk Award" from NetSci 2012 . I have two papers in the venue.
January 2012: I am named a IDCubed Fellow. Check out here.
2011: Funf Open Sensing Platform. Click 
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