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KAUST Ph.D. students win best paper awards at mean-field games conferences

1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018

Dynamic games mean-field games student award

By Sonia Turosienski KAUST Ph.D. students David Evangelista and Xianjin Yang, who are supervised by Diogo Gomes, professor of applied mathematics and computational science, won best paper awards at conferences this summer for their work in mean-field game (MFG) theory. Mean-field games model and seek to explain the behavior of rational agents in a competitive environment and have been used in diverse areas of research, including studies on non-renewable resources and mining models; opinion dynamics; price impact and order book modeling; and networks and energy management. Evangelista was