Tejovan Parker
I am broadly motivated by complex human systems with implications for social good. I am interested in bridging the modeling/simulation and policy solution gap between:
complex models with rational agents from game theory and reinforcement learning
complex models with empirical sociological/psycological models of cognitive biases
Simple, intuitive, implementable policy solutions utilizing insights from information economics and cryptography; In other words, changing the rules, costs, rights, and technical-capabilites of the information systems through which the agents understand the world and each other
Over the past year I have worked with Marhsall Van Alsytne on empiricaly validating information-economic solutions to the misinformation problem. Having previously studied at the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, I hope to address problem that trouble the most disadvantaged globally. My graduate application Statement of Purpose may give more description to my interests.
I started at BU CDS in Fall 2022, with expected graduation Spring 2027. I have a BS and professional masters in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder.
This webpage is essentially a rich-format CV (unfortunattely some images/links are still broken from an account change).
Informal research guided by Dr. Joseph Hughes of Drexel Peace Engineering
Resulting articles are being published on EngineeringforChange.org
Photo: CIAT / Neil Palmer (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Helping to develop and apply the second iteration of the Market System Resilience Index as an intern at iDE
Helping Richard Bookstaber adapt some ABMs to his project on civilization rise and fall
Interesting coursework I performed as part of my graduate certificate in global engineering
Monitoring and Evaluation Proposal | Burden of Disease Modelling | Pakistan Development Report
Modelling the adoption and carbon sequestration of conservation agriculture with STELLA system dynamics software and monte-carlo simulation
Projects using Linear and Quadratic Programming to solve problems ranging from truss topology to handwritten character classification
Testing Distributed Accelerometer Sensing for Quadcopter Control: Vicon, Teensy microcontroller, review of some control literature
Data Analysis & Linear Waves,
Energy Systems & Sensitivity Analysis,
System Identification, Statistical
Process Control (6σ), and Lean
A line-following, fork-lifting, QR-reading, "sort-of" automated robot
Rapid prototyping of electro-mechanical systems, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino
Project Management
Learning from failure Keeping a positive attitude Clear expectations and specifications
Fun!
Repair of intake manifold gasket on 1998 Chevy S10 (partial success)
Backapcked the John Muir Trail (180 miles in 18 days)