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QUANTITATIVE MECHANISM DESIGN & MARKET AUDITS

Economics, Mechanism Design & Simulations

Your Catalyst is an independent research lab exploring economic rules, market incentives, and governance systems by turning them into code. Instead of leaving theory on paper, I build simulations, audit real-world clearinghouses and voting mechanisms, and test whether these systems actually work fairly and hold up against manipulation.

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01/MKT

A discrete-event computational audit of India’s Joint Seat Allocation Authority. I formalized Gale-Shapley Deferred Acceptance across candidate state actions (Freeze, Float, Slide) under stochastic withdrawals, proved that gaming preferences yields zero advantage across 600 audit tests, and modeled the regret students face when prematurely freezing seats.

ALGORITHM: Gale-Shapley (1962) DA POLICY: Sönmez-Yenmez Quota Interleaving TESTS: 10/10 Invariants Passed
02/GOV

Sybil Reversal Thresholds in Decentralized Quadratic Voting

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Quadratic voting is designed to limit the outsized power of wealthy participants, but it is fundamentally vulnerable if someone splits their capital across multiple fake wallets (a Sybil attack). Using real Snapshot voting data from the Arbitrum DAO, I simulate counterfactual governance runs and calculate the exact mathematical thresholds where wallet splitting can flip collective election outcomes.

DATASET: Arbitrum DAO Snapshot Records MODEL: Cost-Function Identity Splitting FIELD: Computational Social Choice