Alex Friedrichsen
Alex Friedrichsen is a Master's student in the Complex Systems Center of the University of Vermont studying Data Science and Complex Systems. I graduated with my bachelor's degree in Data Science in the spring of 2022 through the Honors College at UVM while taking accelerated master's classes. I am currently doing research in multiple labs here at UVM including most recently the Social-Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) lab.
Some of my interests include game theory, music, agent-based models, evolutionary computation, philosophy of mind and chaos theory! I enjoy both technical and holistic learning experiences. I am a huge proponent of habits and routine to promote daily flexiblity through self-automation. I love to read about self-improvement, behavioral economics, theory versus action, and fantasy! I try to optimize and strategize everything.
Currently open to work.
Session
Climate change is leading to an increase in natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, which can damage critical infrastructure like hospitals and schools. To address this problem, we propose a project that uses evolutionary algorithms to design facility placements that are robust to disaster. By using evolutioanary algorthims as a metaheursitc solution to the p-median problem, we are show that our approach leads to facility layouts that are more robust to natural disasters.