Research & Academic Portfolio

All work made possible due to the kind help and sage advice of Mulder (pictured front). Any gains directly or indirectly arising from my work are given to Scully (pictured back).

Ongoing Research | 2025

Machine Learning | Mechanism Design | Empirical Work
Research into the behavior of LLMs solving school choice questions supervised by Itai Ashlagi, professor in MS&E @ Stanford and Raymond Collin, Professor of Economics @ Cornell.

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Behavioral Economics | Mechanism Design | Theory & Empirical
"Bid Now, Worry Later: Average Price Auctions as a Strategy to Deter Time-Inconsistent Firms," supervised by Douglas Bernheim, Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics.

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Machine Learning | High Dimensional Statistics | Empirical Work

"AI Agents Gone Rogue? Predicting the Strategic & Social Behavior of AI Agents in Dungeons and Dragons," supervised by Joon Park, CS Lecturer @ Stanford.

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Causal Inference | Regression Discontinuity | Empirical Work

"Testing Brandolini's Law: Being Assigned Opposition is More Important than Skill in Formal Collegiate Debate," supervised by Asher Spector, 5th year PhD student in Statistics.

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Research | 2024

Computational Complexity | Market Design | Theoretical Work

"In Defense of Picky Eaters: Complexity Separation of Utility and Welfare Maximization Imply Non-Existence of Walrasian Equilibria," Inspired by Tim Roughgarden.

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Machine Learning | Market Design | Empirical Work

"Accurate Algorithmic Detection of Collusion With Up to Eight Cartels Using ARIMA and Random Forest Methods."

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Economic Modeling | Market Design | Theory & Empirical

"Modeling and Estimating the Welfare Consequences of Competitive Collusion in Average Price Auctions with Generalized Linear Models."

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Selected Archival Work

Assyriology | State Archives of Assyria

"As For the Captives, Don't Be Negligent or You Will Die," The Bureaucratic Organization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire’s Small-Scale Deportations, Evidence from Bureaucratic Correspondences.

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Sovietology | Hoover Archives

Moscow's Boiling Frog Approach to Secularizing Estonia and Latvia: The Methods and Ideological Underpinnings of Soviet Anti-Religious Polocy, 1945-1961.

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Byzantology | Poetry, Travelogues & Mosaics

Raised Up as if to Reach Heaven: Views of the Theodosian Walls in Arabic and Byzantine Literature.

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Selected Public Speaking

Finals | Drexel Intervarsity British Parliamentary

Motion: This house believes that the rise of AI will benefit the welfare of non-human animals. I speak as member of government.

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Round I Like | East Malaysian Open