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65          <span class="award">★ MASTER'S THESIS · CMU-CS-26-105</span>
66          <h3>The Structure of Deception in Multi-Agent LLM Systems</h3>
67          <p>How LLM agents lie, break promises, and exploit trust — a unified framework spanning taxonomy, empirical evaluation, and monitoring failure modes.</p>
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75          <h3>Why Multi-Agent Conversations Cannot Fix LLM Forecasting</h3>
76          <p>Evidence from convergence analysis: conversational and mathematical calibration are functionally equivalent, converging to identical Brier scores.</p>
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83          <span class="award">★ FIRST PLACE · MEETING OF THE MINDS</span>
84          <h3>Predictive Power of LLMs in Financial Markets</h3>
85          <p>Does GPT beat BERT at extracting signal from the Fed's Beige Book? First place in the Meeting of the Minds Math Division.</p>
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92          <span class="award">★ HONORABLE MENTION · MCM 2024</span>
93          <h3>Lamprey Population Dynamics with Adaptive Sex-Determination</h3>
94          <p>A probabilistic differential-equation model of populations that adapt their sex ratio to food availability, predators, and habitat conditions.</p>
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101          <span class="award">OPERATIONS RESEARCH II</span>
102          <h3>Optimizing Movie Scheduling Solutions</h3>
103          <p>Reframing theater film scheduling as a linear program that maximizes profitability — and explains why theaters rent movies instead of buying them.</p>
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110          <span class="award">INTERMEDIATE DEEP LEARNING</span>
111          <h3>Predicting Closing Prices — Optiver Kaggle Competition</h3>
112          <p>Benchmarking deep learning against classical ML and linear regression for closing-price prediction across 200 stocks.</p>
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119          <span class="award">INTRO TO MACHINE LEARNING</span>
120          <h3>Sentiment Analysis and Stock Prices</h3>
121          <p>SVM-based sentiment classification of market news at 77% accuracy — and why sentiment alone can't predict price moves.</p>
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