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M. Kimura, 2011 |
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Margot C. Kimura Mechanical Engineering Department Center for Control, Dynamical Systems & Computation Computational Science & Engineering Vision and Image Understanding (VIU) Group University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: Engineering II Bldg, Room 2235 Email: kimura@engineering.ucsb.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/margotk |
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in my final year of graduate school in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB. My general research interests include individual and group decision-making, signal detection theory, dynamical systems, parallel computing, psychology, and computation. My advisor is Professor Jeff Moehlis. I have been working on developing mathematical models for group decision-making that are relevant to cybernetic systems (includes both humans and sensors). My analytical group models are primarily based on individuals who use the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT)-based Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM), which I verify through simulation. I also work with Professor Miguel Eckstein from the Psychology Department. I study the efficiency of groups of human observers in performing a signal detection task. I received the UC Doctoral Scholar Fellowship and the NSF IGERT Fellowship in Computational Science and Engineering.
I enjoy making things, fixing things, and learning to understand how and why things work. I plan to pursue a career in industry after receiving my degree. |
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Education:
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2005) • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Dynamical Systems, UCSB (2007) • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering with Computational Science & Engineering Emphasis, Group Decision-Making, UCSB (2011) |