Michael Wellman

Faculty Affiliates

Michael Wellman

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan College of Engineering

Michael Wellman’s research applies principles of computation and economics to engineer rational decision-making strategies and analyze complex systems of interacting agents. A broad theme of his work is the interplay of technology and incentives in…

News

Speaker bios for FinTech conference

Nov 20, 2017

The University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy and U.S. Office of Financial Research are pleased to host the following speakers for our third annual financial stability conference: FinTech Risks and Opportunities: An Interdisciplinary...

News

NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

Sep 11, 2017

Michael Barr and colleagues from the College of Engineering (Michael Wellman) and Ross School of Business (Uday Rajan) have been awarded a $670,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new techniques to identify financial market...

NSF award: Developing new techniques to detect financial market manipulation

CFLP Update

New U-M interdisciplinary clinic assists Detroit entrepreneurs

Feb 2, 2017

Two weeks ago, 22 students from the Law School, the Ross School of Business, and the Stamps School of Art & Design plus 10 faculty members from those same schools gathered in an unremarkable Ross classroom for what is the beginning of a remarkable...

Systemic Risk & Market Integrity

Algorithmic market manipulation

March 2018

Michael Wellman, Uday Rajan, Gabriel Rauterberg, Michael S. Barr, Xintong Wang, Megan Shearer

By combining finance, machine learning, and computational game theory with law and policy, University of Michigan faculty from the College of Engineering, the Ross School of Business, the Law School, and the Ford School of Public Policy are building new models for thinking about and detecting spoofing and other...

OFR & University of Michigan: Panel 5 - What Are the Emerging Risks in the Financial System and How Might Activities-Based Macroprudential Regulation Address Them? (Day 2)

Nov 16, 2018 1:21:19

Traditional microprudential regulation is firm-based, by definition. But macroprudential regulation is not necessarily activities-based, nor is activities-based regulation necessarily macroprudential.

FinTech Risks & Opportunities (Day 1): Panel 2 - Market Innovations with Michael Wellman, John Ramsay, Supurna VedBrat & Yesha Yadav

Nov 17, 2017 1:21:18

This panel analyzes market innovations in high-frequency trading, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Panelists explore market efficiency, fairness, investor protection, and systemic issues.