// experience · Rochester Institute of Technology
Graduate Researcher
Official RIT appointment researching predictive world models and emergent emotional appraisal in generative agents.
- Organization
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Period
- Jan 2026 – Apr 2026
- Location
- Rochester, NY
What I worked on
- Extended Stanford's Generative Agents with a 72-feature LSTM predictive model, controlled scenarios, ablations, and statistical comparisons across 205,940 agent-step records.
- Validated statistically significant emergent emotion patterns against Gallup 2024 human baselines and documented model behavior, limitations, and failure modes in a research poster.
Technical context
Python · PyTorch · LSTM · Multi-agent simulation · Ablation studies · Statistical analysis