Carey Manwa
I build computational systems to study how humans, and now AI agents, behave, persuade, and organize.
- Social Dynamics Lab · Feb 2026 – Present · Ongoing
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.
Read more → - Social Dynamics Lab · Feb 2026 – Present · Ongoing
Persuasion Strategy Classification at News Scale
Pipelines ingesting 2M+ political news articles across media domains to classify persuasion strategies, powered by an open-source GDELT scraper built to survive the open web.
Read more → - CIDER · Cornell · Mar 2026 – Present · White paper in progress
Predictive Systems for Disaster Resilience
Co-authoring a white paper for Cornell's "Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response" Thought Summit. The technical core is fusing CDR, satellite imagery, and survey data into early-warning systems.
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I'm a graduate student at Cornell working at the intersection of LLMs, social simulation, and development economics. At the Social Dynamics Lab I audit multi-agent LLM simulations and classify persuasion strategies across 2M+ news articles; at CIDER I help build predictive systems for disaster resilience. Before Cornell, I worked with EducationUSA in Nairobi, reaching 20,000+ students across 30+ Kenyan high schools.
- MathMentor ↗
A RAG-powered AI math tutoring platform.
- Block AI Overview ↗
A Chrome extension that rewrites Google searches to skip AI Overviews, without touching the page DOM.
- NEUDC 2026 ↗
Site for the longest-running development economics conference, hosted at Cornell in November 2026.
- SMART Student Blog ↗
A blog platform for Cornell's SMART Program, with accounts, posts, and project filtering.
Open to research collaborations, PhD conversations, and hard data problems.
careyokal@gmail.com