Senior Essays

A Nation’s Innovation: The Impact of National Indicators on Industry-Specific Startup Growth
Author: Henrik Kaellenius

Abstract for Monte Carlo Tree Search Agents and Procedural Board Generation in Boreder
Author: Eileen Peng

Algorithmic Pricing, Collusion & Market Dynamics: Navigating the New Frontier of Digital Competition
Author: Jad Bataha

Analyzing Strategic Decision-Making in “NFL Game Plan”
Author: William Zhu

Bridging the Gap Between Nash Equilibria and Coarse-Correlated Equilibria
Author: Alan Xu

Building a Predictive Model for the NBA
Author: Reese Johnson

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: An MCTS Agent for Two-Player Can’t Stop
Author: Emily Yang

Cross Policy Evaluation of Game Variance
Author: Samuel Myung-Cheol Kim

Estimating Storm Surge Probability Distributions and their Associated Economic Damages Using NOAA Tidal Data Along the American Atlantic Coast
Author: Kelvin Kang

Exploration of Last Iterate Convergence for Optimistic FTRL Algorithm
Author: Kevin Wu

Flood Risk Management and Adaptation by Smallholder Rural Farms in India
Author: Christopher Nathan

Influence of Nudge Dynamics in Sports Betting Platforms
Author: Revant Kantamneni

Investigating the Interplay between Firm Financials and Stock Returns
Author: Milan Mardia

LLM Based Linguistic Heuristics for Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Author: Cody Wyatt Neiman

Making (Good) Matches: Building and Piloting an Online Platform for Experimental School Choice Research
Author: Drew Beckmen

Modeling CMBX Prices Using Commercial Mortgage Delinquency Rates
Author: Ronit Gupta

On Learning in the Presence of Friction
Author: Ziyu Zhu

Quantity Adjusted Option Pricing: An Investigation
Author: Jai Chadha

Risk Analysis of the Future: Assessing Bank Credit with Large Language Models
Author: Cameron Abidi Freeman

SoK: Privacy and Tracking on the Web
Author: Rohan Menon

Using a Dynamic Bayes Network to Represent System State for Fault Diagnosis
Author: Subashri Ramesh

Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Implement Sentiment Analysis and Keyword Extraction on Yale Course Evaluations
Author: Alexander J. Abinader

Vanilla and Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization for Imperfect Information Games
Author: Jonathan W. Yu

Investigating Legitimate Companies' Use of Combosquatting-Like Domains
Author: Frankie She

A Transkribus-Trained ML Tool for Historical Italian Manuscripts
Author: Kylen Wei Bao

An Empirical Analysis of Decentralized Exchanges
Author: Iris Wu

Analyzing Robustness of Modern Multimodal Transformer Architecture
Author: John Wahlig

Gold Futures in Flux: Assessing the impact of unexpected FOMC decisions
Author: Neel Malhotra

Missing Record: Dropped and Added References in NBER Working Paper Series 2000-2009
Author: Hongyi Shen

Using Deep Q-Learning to Play Two-Player Yahtzee
Author: Max Yuan

A Decentralized Need for Speed: An Empirical Investigation into Transaction Latency and Construction of Predictive Machine Learning Models for Blockchain
Author: Megha Joshi

An econometric analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Caribbean tourism industry
Author: Andrei Pascu

Baseball Roster Management Dashboard: Constructing a Website for MLB Roster Visualization and Predictive Analytics Display
Author: Ben Sibul

Battleship: Examining Edge and Adjacency Ship Placements and Target Selections
Author: Michelle Goh

Building A Predictive Model For The NBA Draft
Author: Adil Gondal

Cribbage Counterfactual Regret Minimization
Author: Mykyta Solonko

Developing a Web Framework to Visualize Fictitious Play’s Convergence to Nash Equilibrium, Study Duality Gap Statistics, and Examine Validity of Karlin’s Conjecture
Author: Adhya Sharma

Do Sportsbooks Follow Bayesian Updating?
Author: Nalin Khanna

Innova-Sim: Modeling Firm Competition in Innovation as a Multi-Stage Game with Agent-Based Simulation
Author: Teckhua Chiang

Modeling Games with Uncertainty and Third-Party Selection Case Study - NCAA I March Madness
Author: Theo Lauriette

Money See, Money Do: Quantifying the Tendency for a Manager in a Network to Copy and Originate Investment Ideas
Author: Daniel Lu

Online Learning Algorithms on Embedded Systems: An Investigation using the Matching Pennies Game
Author: James Zhao

Prospects of Substituting Local Land Finance Revenue with Property Tax in China
Author: Lawrence Wang

Q-Learning in Repeated Price Competition: Analyzing Convergence & Equilibrium Outcomes
Author: Matthew Byung Hyun Nam

Satellite Remote Sensing and U-Net for Predicting Population Density in Kenya
Author: Danielle J. Daley

Solving the Optimal Strategy for Simplified Single-Player Qwixx
Author: Surtaz Khan

Trading on Social Impact
Author: Sam Tobin

Using NOAA Tide Data to Estimate Flood Damages Along the Atlantic Coast
Author: Joshua Eberhardt

Using Trees to Price Mortgages and Other Interest Rate Derivatives
Author: Petru Neagu

Applying Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to Candidate/Employer Job Matching and Salary Negotiations
Author: Alexander Chen

Machine Learning to Identify Predictors of Lapses in a Beginners’ Exercise Program for Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
Author: Rajat Doshi

AlphaHearts Zero: Implementing AlphaZero techniques for Imperfect Information Trick-Taking Games
Author: Andrew Wei

Analysis of Hybrid Deep Learning Agent for Gomoku
Author: Jason Kim

COVID-19 and the U.S. Meatpacking Industry
Author: Colman Seery

Discrete Time Hedging in Frictional Markets: An Enhanced Rainbow Deep-Q Learning Approach
Author: Arrunava Moondra

Effects of Weather on COVID-19 and an Instrumental Variable Strategy to Address Endogeneity
Author: Alden Ming Yang Tan

Predicting U.S. Elections: an Alternate Approach Using Monte Carlo Simulations
Author: David Villarreal Cavazos

An Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery and Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles
Author: Lillie Ketterson

The Value of High School Mathematics: Measuring the Effects of Access and Exposure of Secondary Mathematics on Later Life Outcomes
Author: Haron Adbaru

Web Application for Medical Diagnostics
Author: Kenny Wang

AlphaConnect Four: Combining Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search to Play Connect Four
Author: Hunter Contos

Computing Optimal Strategies in Card Sharks
Author: Brooke Alviar

Improving Competition Complexity Bounds in Multi-Item Auctions
Author: Amar Patel

Optimal Auctions, an eBay experiment
Author: Markos Gazepis

Implementation & Analysis of Online Learning Algorithms
Author: Musab Javed