Brian Powers
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Brian Powers received two B.A.s in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tufts University (2003) and his M.S. in Financial Mathematics from Fairfield University (2007). He defended his thesis "An Analysis of Multi-Variate Final-Offer Arbitration" in the summer of 2016, earning his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After a 3 year postdoc appointment here at ASU working on agent-based modeling of fisheries, he is now an instructor of mathematics. He is interested in cooperative games, graph games, stochastic models and agent-based modeling. More specifically, his work examines game theoretic models of arbitration, social network anti-coordination and predator-prey relationships, as well as budgeted supervised learning algorithms. When not busy in academia, Brian enjoys designing card and board games, illustrating, biking and spending time with his wife and two kids.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago 2016
MS in Mathematics, Fairfield University 2007
BA in Mathematics & Computer Science, Tufts University 2003
