I pronounce my name like Maroon (with an N) Ramen – quite an unappetizing sight.¹ Having said that, please feel free to email me pictures of oddly colored noodles that you have made or found:

narunram [at] cs [dot] ubc [dot] ca.

I am wrapping up a Master’s under Kevin Leyton-Brown and will be continuing with a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in 2024. My research interests are listed below and primarily center around understanding the quirks of human behavior in digital spaces. I am very available via email so please do reach out if you would like to collaborate or chat, I would love to get coffee.²

My work experiences are accessible here: 📑 resume.

Publications and Pre-Prints

2024

1. Pay to (Not) Play: Monetizing Impatience in Mobile Games in the 38th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24)
   T. Lundy, N. Raman, H. Fu, K. Leyton-Brown.
   [arXiv] [poster]
2. Rationality Report Cards: Assessing the Economic Rationality in Large Language Models
   N. Raman, T. Lundy, S. Amouyal, Y. Levine, K. Leyton-Brown, M. Tennenholtz.
   [arXiv]
3. Determinants of Conspicuous Consumption: NFTs as a Data-Rich Test Bed
   T. Lundy, N. Raman, S. Kominers, K. Leyton-Brown.
   [arXiv]

2020

1. Classifying Wikipedia article quality with revision history networks in the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym)
   N. Raman, N. Sauerberg, J. Fisher, A. Partida, S. Narayan.
   [paper]
2. ALCH: An Imperative Language for Chemical Reaction Network-Controlled Tile Assembly in the 26th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA 26)
   T. Klinge, J. Lathrop, S. Moreno, H. Potter, N. Raman, M. Riley.
   [paper] [poster]

Other News

• I recently TA’d for Kevin’s Winter 2023 course Models of Strategic Behavior.

• Our work on mobile game monetization was presented by my coauthor Taylor Lundy at 2023 Bellairs.
  [slides]