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Projects

Theses, competition entries, and course projects — from LLM deception frameworks to lamprey population models.

Master's thesis
★ MASTER'S THESIS · CMU-CS-26-105

The Structure of Deception in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

How LLM agents lie, break promises, and exploit trust — a unified framework spanning taxonomy, empirical evaluation, and monitoring failure modes.

Senior thesis
★ SENIOR THESIS

Why Multi-Agent Conversations Cannot Fix LLM Forecasting

Evidence from convergence analysis: conversational and mathematical calibration are functionally equivalent, converging to identical Brier scores.

Meeting of the Minds
★ FIRST PLACE · MEETING OF THE MINDS

Predictive Power of LLMs in Financial Markets

Does GPT beat BERT at extracting signal from the Fed's Beige Book? First place in the Meeting of the Minds Math Division.

MCM
★ HONORABLE MENTION · MCM 2024

Lamprey Population Dynamics with Adaptive Sex-Determination

A probabilistic differential-equation model of populations that adapt their sex ratio to food availability, predators, and habitat conditions.

Operations research
OPERATIONS RESEARCH II

Optimizing Movie Scheduling Solutions

Reframing theater film scheduling as a linear program that maximizes profitability — and explains why theaters rent movies instead of buying them.

Deep learning project
INTERMEDIATE DEEP LEARNING

Predicting Closing Prices — Optiver Kaggle Competition

Benchmarking deep learning against classical ML and linear regression for closing-price prediction across 200 stocks.

Intro ML project
INTRO TO MACHINE LEARNING

Sentiment Analysis and Stock Prices

SVM-based sentiment classification of market news at 77% accuracy — and why sentiment alone can't predict price moves.