Sara Fish

I am a third-year PhD student at Harvard advised by Yannai Gonczarowski. My research interests lie in EconCS and ML. I am supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Kempner Institute Graduate Fellowship. Previously, I completed my B.S. in Mathematics at Caltech.

I am always happy to chat with new people. Feel free to email me at sfish@g.harvard.edu or schedule a meeting here.

Research

Google Scholar

EconEvals: Benchmarks and Litmus Tests for LLM Agents in Unknown Environments
Sara Fish, Julia Shephard, Minkai Li, Ran Shorrer, and Yannai Gonczarowski
Preprint available at arXiv:2503.18825. (Code)

Generative Social Choice: The Next Generation
with Niclas Boehmer and Ariel Procaccia
ICML 2025 Spotlight (Top 2.6%) (Working paper). (Code)

Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
with Yannai Gonczarowski and Ran Shorrer
Preprint available at arXiv:2404.00806.
Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Zvi Mowshowitz, The Capitol Forum

Stable Menus of Public Goods: A Matching Problem
with Yannai Gonczarowski and Sergiu Hart
EC 2025 (arXiv:2402.11370). (Code)

Generative Social Choice
with Paul Gölz, David Parkes, Ariel Procaccia, Gili Rusak, Itai Shapira, and Manuel Wüthrich
EC 2024 (arXiv:2309.01291). (Code v2)
(Project awarded $100,000 grant via OpenAI's Democratic Inputs to AI program.)

Teaching

(Harvard) CS 37 / ECON 1071 ("Incentives in the Wild"): Teaching Fellow, Spring '25
(Harvard) CS 37 / ECON 1071 ("Incentives in the Wild"): Teaching Fellow, Fall '23
(Caltech) Ma 0 ("Intro to Proofs"): Lead Teaching Assistant, Summer '21
(Caltech) Ma 6a ("Discrete Mathematics"): Teaching Assistant, Fall '19
(Caltech) Ma 108a ("Real Analysis"): Grader, Fall '19

Miscellaneous

Command line interface for LLMs that I use instead of the web UI
Basic cvc5 tutorial
LaTeX tutorial, created for PROMYS students new to LaTeX

Others' work

Mirror of Mallory Ladd's NSF GRFP Advice page, original (defunct) link here

Previous volunteering and employment

In summer 2023, I was a mentor for the Polymath Jr. distinct distances project.
In summer 2022, I worked as an Algo Developer Intern at Hudson River Trading.
In summer 2021, I was a counselor at PROMYS, head TA for Caltech's Math 0, and a mentor at the Polymath Jr. expanding polynomials project.
I volunteered for CHMMC (Caltech Harvey Mudd Math Competition) and wrote the 2019 Power Round.
In summer 2018, I worked as a JC at Canada/USA Mathcamp.

Previous math research

A Construction for Difference Sets with Local Properties
with Ben Lund and Adam Sheffer
European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 79, June 2019, pg. 237-243. arXiv

Crescent configurations in Normed Spaces
with D. King, S. J. Miller, E. A. Palsson, and C. Wahlenmayer
Integers, Vol. 20, #A96. arXiv

Local Properties via Color Energy Graphs and Forbidden Configurations
with Cosmin Pohoata and Adam Sheffer
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 34, Jan 2020, pg. 177-187. arXiv