Students Graduate with Honors

August 12, 2016

Three IDeA Labs undergraduate researchers graduated this summer, two of which graduated with honors.

Jacob Brewer double majored in Computer Science and Arabic, and his honors thesis was titled “A Machine Learning Approach To Intra-Market Price Impact Modelling Using NASDAQ Level-2 ITCH Data." His thesis explores how informative the shape of the limit order book is for predicting the evolution of a stock’s price.

Joel Eliason majored in Mathematics and is a co-author on the paper “Passive Reconstruction of Non-Target-Specific Discrete-Time LTI Systems," which was presented at the American Control Conference in Boston last July. He also is passionate about developing dynamic models of clusters of neurons and completed an ORCA project related to that work.

Winston Hurst majored in Computer Science, and his honors thesis was titled “Dynamic Coalition Formation in Markets with Linear Demand." His research developed self-enforcing mechanisms that induce cooperation among selfish agents in competitive environments.