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Christopher J. Hazard (Chris)

Doctoral Student

Computer Science at North Carolina State University

Concentration: Multi-Agent Systems

e-mail: ncsu at cjhazard dot edu and swap the first two

Background Information

I am currently working with Munindar Singh on using discount factor as a basis for reputation in market interactions. My previous work was with Peter Wurman on resource allocation in autonomous robot physical distribution systems. In the past couple years, I have also worked on multi-agent decision models exhibiting economy of scale effects, and bandwidth allocation in distributed wireless environments using a multi-agent model. My primary interests are in emergent behavior, strategic behavior, and scalability as they pertain to multi-agent systems. However, I believe that using an interdisciplinary approach is very valuable and have gained wide experience in a number of fields:

Computer architecture (participated in Yan Solihin's research group from 2004-2006)
Programming languages and compilers (Written 6 compilers/interpreters - see 'Other Projects')
Distributed computing (Honors undergraduate work - see 'Other Projects')
3-D graphics rendering (See demo and graphics section in 'Other Projects')
Simulation/Discrete event systems (at Motorola and Kiva Systems)
Cellular Automata (See 'Publications')
Software Engineering (See 'CV')
Information theory
Computer networks (See 'CV')

I also have an interest in physics, electrical engineering, and theory of computation.

I first became interested in computer science when I created a 3-D graphics editor in assembly language. I was born in Wisconsin, and enjoy traveling and the outdoors.

Outside of my PhD work at NCSU, I have been working on developing the time travel game Achron.