Lyle Goodyear

I’m interested in information and incentives in decentralized systems—particularly social and economic networks and resource allocation mechanisms. I recently graduated from Stanford with a BS with Honors in Computer Science focusing on theory, and I’m beginning a Predoctoral Research Fellowship at Microsoft Research New York in the Economics and Computation Group. Last summer, I interned at MSR New England where I worked with Markus Mobius on models of consensus formation in social networks. Previously, I worked with Ramesh Johari of the Stanford MS&E Department to study LLM agentic behavior in network routing games. My research has been featured at INFORMS and in workshops at ACM EC and NeurIPS.

I’m also interested in cultural theory, hauntology, architecture, surrealism, electronic music, theme parks, and dreams. I write about some of these topics on my blog. I even DJ in my free time.