Carey Okal
Graduate Student, Cornell University. Computational social science, LLM agents, NLP, development economics.
Multi-agent LLM simulation (Stanford-Prison-inspired); regex + LLM audit pipelines for game-state consistency. Persuasion strategy classification over 2M+ political news articles; authored open-source GDELT scraper (concurrent, resumable, retry logic, content validation).
Co-authoring white paper for Cornell’s "Data Science to Build Resilience and Improve Humanitarian Response" Thought Summit. CDR feature construction, satellite imagery pipelines, multi-modal fusion; policy translation and partner engagement.
Sole maintainer of the full web presence of an internationally-reaching research community, including hosting and server operations, SEO for publication discoverability, and the NEUDC 2026 conference site.
SQL, Python, Tableau, regression, classification, time-series, A/B testing.
~300 students/semester, many writing their first real code.
Perfect 10/10 TA evaluations across four consecutive semesters of TAing both courses.
Digital transformation in East African ecotourism. Led hackathon-winning sustainable commerce platform, the top solution among 5 multi-institutional teams.
Strategic presentations for CEO Action (2,500+ CEOs, 85 industries); organizational culture and leadership consulting support.
Led 20 mentors; outreach in 30+ Kenyan high schools reaching 20,000+ students. Awarded by the acting Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Nairobi.