Research Portfolio
Academic research, publications, and contributions to knowledge
Current Research Projects
Honor's Thesis
"Inflation Forecasting using Agent-Based Modeling"
Investigating inflation forecasting using an ABM model. github.com/JawandS/macroeconvue
Advisor: Prof. Sidi Lu (CSCI, William & Mary)
Duration: 06/2025 - Present
Status: Active Development
LLM Agents Research
"LLMs as Agents in Experimental Economics"
Leveraging prompt engineering to research the use of LLMs as agents in experimental economics in game theory. Creating a scalable and extensible platform to run game theory experiments using AI agents. Developed econ-llm package: pypi.org/project/econ-llm/
PI: Prof. Robert Hicks & Prof. Lisa Anderson (Economics, William & Mary)
Duration: 01/2025 - Present
Status: Package Published
Past Research Projects
MacroEcon Tools Python Package
Developing an open-source Python package (macroecon-tools) that extends Pandas DataFrame and Series. Using generative AI to translate computational macroeconomics models from MATLAB to Python. Available at: https://pypi.org/project/macroecon-tools/
PI: Prof. Nathaniel Throckmorton (Economics, William & Mary)
Status: Package Published on PyPI
Campaign Website Security Analysis
Used web scraping and natural language processing to analyze the security/privacy of campaign sites. Independently maintained a research schedule and logs, drafted a journal extension, maintained a repository.
PI: Prof. Adwait Nadkarni (Computer Science, William & Mary)
Lab: William & Mary Secure Platforms Lab
eBPF Tracing Overhead Analysis
Measured, analyzed, and visualized eBPF tracing overhead on Ubuntu servers using bpftrace and Python. Visualized TensorFlow behavior on Ubuntu by using context switch tracing during program execution.
PI: Prof. Songqing Chen (Computer Science, George Mason University)
Contribution: Lead researcher, data analysis, modeling
Outcomes: Presented at 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium