**Artifact** from Bead: Stephen Guerin Cv Bead · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/ee910e28-0191-40f2-9475-3e809db6394c/2026-07-06/artifacts/StephenGuerinResume_2025.md) · session 2026-07-06 · discussion: Talk: Stephen Guerin Cv Bead
**Email:** stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu **Address:** 24 Oxford Street, Room 200, Cambridge, MA 02318 **Mobile:** (505) 577-5828
## Technical Skills Agent-based modeling, data visualization, distributed algorithm design, urban simulation, projected augmented reality application design, machine vision, machine learning, rapid application prototyping
## Professional Experience ### Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Laboratory, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Graduate School of Design **Researcher and collaborator** | *1/2023 - present* - Focusing on advanced visualization, realtime geospatial modeling, and decentralized imagery fusion for community-driven history and design. - Lead efforts integrating interactive simulations, imagery intelligence, and visualization technologies into design research and pedagogy. ### Simtable, LLC **CEO** | *2/2009 – present* | [www.simtable.com](http://www.simtable.com) - Inventor and developer of projected augmented reality 3D physical sandtable for use in wildfire and emergency management training, community outreach and incident command. The interactive surface supports interactive agent-based models and GIS visualization. - Recognized by Time Magazine as one of top 5 inventions in 2011. - Currently most commercially deployed projected augmented reality product. (200 installations) ### Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School **Faculty / Lecturer** | *6/2005 – 2019* | [www.santafe.edu](http://www.santafe.edu) - Lecturer on agent-based modeling and scientific visualization. ### RedfishGroup, LLC **Principal** | *4/2002 - present* | [www.redfish.com](http://www.redfish.com) - Professional R&D consulting in applied complexity, agent-based modeling and information visualization. - **Representative Projects:** - *City of Venice, Italy (EU Civitas Project)* – Projected augmented reality table for boat traffic management. - *Department of Homeland Security* – Agent-based modeling of crowd dynamics and egress from bombing events in PNC Baseball Stadium and Metro Center Subway in Washington, DC. - *City of Boston* - Development of Streetbump.org – a citizen mobile app using accelerometers and GPS in mobile phones to map potholes. - *UK Home Office* – Agent-based modeling and visualization of Criminal Justice System for England and Wales. - *State of California Administrative Office of the Courts* – Visualization of court case flow. - *MIT MediaLab (Reality Mining Project)* - Visualization of social networks from mobile phone data. - *National Institute on Drug Abuse* - Grant research. Agent-based modeling of diffusion of illicit drug use. - *City of Santa Fe* – Agent-based modeling of wildfire evacuation and crowd dynamics at Zozobra. - *Intel Corporation* – Visualization of workflow. - *Eli Lilly* – Visualization and agent-based modeling of Pharmaceutical R&D workflow and portfolio. ### Santa Fe Complex **Founder** | *1/2009 – 5/2012* | [www.sfcomplex.org](http://www.sfcomplex.org) - Collaborative non-profit R&D group in applied Complexity. Explores projects at the intersection of art, technology and science with STEM education focus. ### BiosGroup, Inc. **Senior Software Developer** | *5/2000 – 4/2002* - Applied complexity consulting, agent-based modeling. - Stuart Kauffman’s Research Group - researched mappings of theoretical biology and origin-of-life to software architectures. - **Representative Projects:** - *Veritas* – Developed resource allocation algorithms, visualizations and agent-based models for a self-administering, self-organizing data network. - *El Paso Energy* – Created 3D visualization of network flow optimization for natural gas pipelines. Designed and developed distributed enterprise application for option contracts in energy trading. - *AirProducts* – Developed and deployed a strategic portfolio management tool. Used Java Peer2Peer architecture with embedded webserver (Jetty), prototype Matlab code and integrated within a corporate Microsoft environment (IIS, SQL, COM-ASP). - *MarketProwess* – Developed interactive web visualization of “trade space” for a B2B high-dimensional preference-matching engine. Integrated to prototype Matlab code via web interface. - *Honda R&D* – Developed a web application that allows consumers to evolve the shape of future possible automobile shapes using genetic algorithms in a peer2peer architecture. - *NASDAQ* – Integrated a web-based Java3D visualization of clustering algorithms for stock portfolios. ### RedfishGroup, Inc. **Founder and CEO** | *9/1991 - 5/2000* | [www.redfish.com](http://www.redfish.com) - **Project Summaries:** - *1999-2000 Phoenix, Arizona* - Designed business-to-business Internet reverse-auction website focused on Asian supply of electronic components. - *1998-99 Phoenix, Arizona* - Developed web-based enterprise resource planning system for an electronics manufacturer. - *1995-97 Beijing, China* - China Internet consulting - developed Internet solutions for multinational corporations (Dow Jones, Total Petroleum, Reuters, Hewlett Packard, Apple, CNN, etc.). Designed and hosted US Embassy's web site. First foreign company to host a server on China's nascent Internet backbone. - *1995-96 Beijing, China* - AVID video editor for "Behind the Scenes" - a Chinese Television program covering Chinese films in production. - *1994-95 Beijing, China* - Developed web-based Chinese dictionary. - *1991-94 Jupiter, Florida* - Apple Value Added Reseller, Multimedia Research and Development - Designed and animated several award winning cd-rom and pc-based multimedia presentations.
## Publications - **Guerin, S. and Kunkle, D.** (2004) "Emergence of constraint in self-organizing systems." *Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences*, Vol. 8, No. 2, April, 2004. - **Guerin, S.** (2004) "Peeking into the Black Box: Some art and science to visualizing agent-based models." *Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference* R.G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, and B. A. Peters, eds. - **Agar, M., Guerin, S., Holmes, R., and Kunkle, D.** (2004) "DrugSim: the structure of agent-based revolutions." *Proceedings of Agent 2004: Challenges in Social Simulation*. Chicago, IL. - **Gambhir, M., Guerin, S., Kauffman, S., Kunkle, D.** (2004) "Steps toward a possible theory of organization." *Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Systems 2004*. - **Joyce, D., Kennison, J., Densmore, O., Guerin, S., Barr, S., Charles, E. and Thompson, N.** (2006) "My Way or the Highway: a More Naturalistic Model of Altruism Tested in an Iterative Prisoners' Dilemma." - **Thorp, J., Guerin, S., Wimberly, F., Rossbach, M., Densmore, O., Agar, M., Roberts, D.** (2006) "Santa Fe On Fire: agent-based modeling of wildfire evacuation dynamics." *Proceedings of the Agent 2006 Conference on Social Agents: Results and Prospects*, ANL/DIS-06-7, ISBN 0-9679168-7-9, Sallach, D.L., C.M. Macal, and M.J. North (editors), co-sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, September 21-23. - **Douglas, C. and Guerin, S.** (2026) "Visualising the Invisible: Drawing Attention to Temporal Patterns in Spatial Dynamics." *Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA)*, 11-2026, p. 847. doi:[10.14627/537770080](https://doi.org/10.14627/537770080). - **Huntley, G. G., Guerin, S., Manavi, K., Thorp, J., Gould, J., and Graydon, S.** (2025) "FIREWX Tuning Wildfire Plume Models from Calibrated Imagery." *105th Annual AMS Meeting 2025*. - **Kauffman, S., and Guerin, S.** (2024) "Did the Universe Construct Itself?" *Book: Spacetime 1908–2023: Selected Peer-Reviewed Papers Presented at the 3rd Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics*. Minkowski Institute Press. - **Cox, S. J., Manavi, K. M., and Guerin, S.** (2024) "Developing a Computational Geospatial Curriculum for Community Decision Making." *Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference of The Computational Social Science*. - **Carrera, F., Guerin, S., Thorp, J.B.** (2013) "By the people, for the people: The crowdsourcing of 'STREETBUMP': An automatic pothole mapping app." *The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences*. - **Carrera, F., Schloss, A.L., Guerin, S., Beaudry, J., and Pickle, J.** (2011) "Digital Earth Watch (DEW): How Mobile Apps Are Paving The Way Towards A Federated Web-Services Architecture For Citizen Science." *AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2011*. - **Schloss, A.L., Beaudry, J., Pickle, J., Carrera, F., and Guerin, S.** (2011) "How Mobile Picture Posts will Expand Participation in the Digital Earth Watch and Picture Post Citizen Environmental Monitoring Network." *96th ESA Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas*. - **Guerin, S., and Carrera, F.** (2010) "Sand on fire: an interactive tangible 3D platform for the modeling and management of wildfires." *WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment* 137, 57-68. - **Thorp, J., Samuelson, D. A., and Guerin, S.** (2008) "Agent-based simulations of mass egress after improvised explosive device attacks." *Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)*. - **Guerin, S., Manavi, K., and Gould, E.** (2021) "Distributed Browser-Based Fire Behavior Monitoring with Realtime.Earth: Use Cases from the 2020 Fire Season." *IAWF 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference*. - **Manavi, K., Gould, E., Smith, C., Thorp, J., and Guerin, S.** (2020) "Realtime.Earth: Collective Intelligence from Distributed Imagery While Maximizing Privacy for Wildland Fire." *ACM Collective Intelligence Conference*. - **Guerin, S., Manavi, K., and Gould, E.** (2019) "Realtime.Earth: Live Photogrammetry of Fuels and Fire Behavior Using Mobile Phone Browsers." *IAWF 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference*. - **Boyle, S., Guerin, S., and Kunkle, D.** (2006) "An Application of Multi-Agent Simulation to Policy Appraisal in the Criminal Justice System." In Chen, S. H., Jain, L., and Tai, C. C. (Eds.), *Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence*. Hershey, PA : Idea Group [book chapter].
## Education - **Santa Fe Institute** | *2000* Complex Systems Summer School - **Arizona State University** | *1998-2000* Graduate Studies, Cognitive Science (27 hours) - Complex Adaptive System studies in Mathematics, Engineering, CS and Cognitive Science - **Peoples University**, Beijing, PRC | *1994* China Studies - **Arizona State University** | *1986-1990* Economics - Liberal Arts - **Nanjing University**, PRC | *1988* China Studies
## Boards - Board member of New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge - President of Board of Santa Fe Complex - City of Santa Fe Business and Quality of Life Committee - New Mexico’s Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries
*References and project portfolio samples available on request*