PhD candidate
Modelling and Simulation Research Group
Centre for Complex Systems
The University of Sydney
My research leverages Agent-Based Computational Economics1 to explore how democratic and cooperative decision-making and ownership structures in organisations impact the economy at large. By integrating concepts from social psychology into the decision-making of individual agents in economic models, we can improve the real-world fidelity of the models and see how more participatory organizational forms influence factors such as market dynamics and wealth distribution.
Selected Publications
Ruiz-Serra J, White J, Petrie S, Kameneva T, and McCarthy C. Learning scene representations for human-assistive displays using self-attention networks. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl., 2024. DOI:10.1145/3650111
Ruiz-Serra J, Harré MS. Inverse Reinforcement Learning as the Algorithmic Basis for Theory of Mind: Current Methods and Open Problems. Algorithms, 2023, 16, 68. DOI:10.3390/a16020068
Ruiz-Serra J, White J, Petrie S, Kameneva T, McCarthy C. Towards self-attention based visual navigation in the real world. In Proceedings of the 2022 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2022). Brisbane, Australia, December 2022. arXiv:2209.07043
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Education
The University of Sydney (Sydney, AU)
PhD, Computational Economics
Oct 2022 – Present
MITx on edX (Online)
MicroMasters, Statistics and Data Science
Mar 2021 – Nov 2022
Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, AU)
BEng (Hons), Robotics and Mechatronics
Feb 2016 – Dec 2020
CATC Design School (Melborune, AU)
DipDes, Graphic Design
Jun 2013 – May 2014
Experience
The University of Sydney (Sydney, AU)
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Complex Systems
Feb 2023 – Present
Swinburne University of Technology (Remote/Melbourne, AU)
Research Assistant, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision
Sep 2020 – Present
National Australia Bank (Remote/Melbourne, AU)
Analyst, Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
Jan 2018 – Sep 2020
Youth Without Borders (Melbourne, AU)
Victoria Staffing Manager, Spark Engineering Camp
Nov 2016 – Sep 2017
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Footnotes
“Agent-based computational economics is the computational study of economic processes modelled as dynamic systems of interacting agents” (Tesfatsion, 2006)↩︎