Special Projects

I am currently working on three special projects. 

Elephant Risky Choice project

This is an ongoing, multi-year project funded by the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Georgia State University. We’ve adapted the experimental methods we’ve used for many years in quantitatively modelling human risk preferences for application to our six African elephant study participants at Adventures with Elephants, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

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Elephant Conservation Action

With links to the Elephant Risky Choice project, but based on data about wild African elephant populations, this project with Ross Harvey, Glenn Harrison, and Matthew Townshend explores practical applications to elephant conservation policy.

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Game Theory for Social Networks

This is a project in applied mathematics with Wynn C. Stirling, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University, USA. It builds on a platform for coordinating distributed control in AI-guided robots, launched in Wynn’s book Conditional Game Theory (Cambridge University Press 2012), to fundamental issues linking the sociology of networks with microeconomic games.

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