Carey Okal
I'm an MPS student in Information Science at Cornell Bowers CIS (B.S. Information Science '26, cum laude), working at the intersection of LLMs, social simulation, and data science. At the Social Dynamics Lab I audit multi-agent LLM simulations and built the large-scale ingestion pipelines behind persuasion-strategy research on political news; at CIDER I'm co-authoring a white paper on predictive systems for disaster resilience.
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AI Social Simulation: LLM Agents in a Virtual World
A multi-agent LLM simulation inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment. Autonomous agents inhabit a virtual world, form relationships, and interact in real time, and audit pipelines verify what they say against the world state.
- Multi-agent simulation
- LLM evaluation
- Log auditing
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Persuasion Strategy Classification in Political News
The ingestion and cleaning pipelines behind a roughly 2-million-article corpus of U.S. political news (14 outlets, 2000–2025), built for NSF-funded research on how persuasive style varies with editorial credibility and ideology.
- Data engineering
- NLP
- Classification
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Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response
Co-authoring a white paper synthesizing research from Cornell's Thought Summit on fusing CDR, satellite imagery, and survey data into early-warning systems.
- Literature synthesis
- Research translation
- Stakeholder engagement
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Sustainable Ecotourism Commerce Platform
Lead developer on the hackathon-winning Community Tourism Relay for Il Ngwesi Conservancy: a booking platform, handmade-goods marketplace, and community revenue portal judged the top solution among 5 multi-institutional teams.
- Product design
- Digital transformation
- Lead development
Research aside, I build for the web — client work and my own products, all currently live.
Open to research collaborations, PhD conversations, and hard data problems.
careyokal@gmail.com →