| Bio: | Dr. Schwartz is a researcher in the Department of at Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She is affiliated with Network Economics Group and TRUST Center. Dr. Schwartzs primary expertise is game theory and microeconomics. She is involved in projects in the areas of internet security, network reliability, quality of service (QoS) provision, security of cyber-physical systems (SCADA systems and applications to Smart Grid). Recently she has also become interested in game theoretic aspects of interaction between humans and smart machines.
Dr. Schwartz authored papers in economic and engineering journals. Recently she published on the subjects of network neutrality, residual cyber risks management and modeling of cyber-insurance markets, and security of networked control systems. In her earlier research, she has addressed governance (managerial incentives and compensation), and incentive effects of regulations. She has applied contract theory to analyze ownership structure(s) and contractual costs of multinational corporations, and addressed the role of bureaucracies in environments with high transaction costs.
Dr. Schwartz has been on the faculty in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, and has taught at Economics Departments at the University of California, Davis and Berkeley. Dr. Schwartz received her MS in mathematical physics from Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics (Russia), and Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 2000. |
