Stephen
Guerin is President of
RedfishGroup , an Applied Complexity R&D group and founder of the non-profit
Santa Fe Complex .
His work centers on visualization, modeling and the design of self-organizing systems. Through UrbanStudio@Santa Fe Complex , Stephen is developing implementations of GIS-based agent-based modeling tools for use on community planning platforms like simtable.com where
stakeholders interact with urban visualizations in an ambient computing environment.
Stephen recently served on the National Science Foundation's Human & Social Dynamics Grant Review Committee and lectures on agent-based
modeling and visualization as a faculty member of Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School.
Between 2000 and 2002, Stephen worked as a Senior Software Developer at BiosGroup and participated as a member of Stuart Kauffman's
research group. Stephen Guerin started researching chaotic systems as they applied to economic systems and business cycles in 1989. He
founded RedfishGroup in 1991 to provide special effects animation, video editing and commercial printing. Operations were shifted to
Beijing in 1994 to develop a series of Chinese language translation tools. RedfishGroup went on to provide Internet programming and
consulting to multinational and Chinese firms with presences in Beijing and Shanghai. After returning from China in 1997, Stephen
spent a few years of research in Cognitive Science looking for applications to distributed software systems. RedfishGroup's long-term
mission is to create living software systems.
Stephen lives in Santa Fe with his wife Alison and two young sons.