Projects

Published papers and ongoing work from the GAIAR Lab, led with the students driving each project, organized by theme. Click any project for details.

AI & Financial Markets

published

Unveiling NFT Price Dynamics: The Interplay of Traits, Timing, and Social Signaling

Qirui Liu, Rajiv Garg · 2025

working paper

AI and Sustainable Tech Investment Signals in 10-K/10-Q Filings

Yashonandan Kakrania, Rajiv Garg · 2025

working paper

AI vs. Human Stock Analysts: Comparing Recommendation Accuracy

Julia Yang, Rajiv Garg · 2026

Fairness & Trustworthy AI

published

Beyond Fair Predictions: Auditing and Mitigating Disparity in Post-Hoc Model Explanations

Ivanie Stella Umuhoza, Rajiv Garg · 2025

published

Domain Anchorage in GPT-4: A Computational Linguistic Analysis of Lexicographic Profiling and Its Implications for Unintended Information Dissemination

Lekha Challappa, Jenevieve Zhang, Rajiv Garg · 2025

working paper

Does Tone Bias the Grader? Personality and Emotion in Text as Confounds in LLM-Based Academic Evaluation

Lily Trinh, Rajiv Garg · 2026

Consumer Behavior & Text Analytics

published

Snack and Snap: A Novel Recipe for Yelp Reviews with Explainable AI

Yonah Byarugaba, Binyang Wang, Rajiv Garg · 2025

published

From Panic to Provisions: Unraveling Consumer Emotions Amidst the Food Delivery Rush During COVID-19 Community Lockdown

Binyang Wang, Yili Liu, Rajiv Garg · 2025

working paper

Intent-Based Recommendation: Replicating and Extending DUIP

Blair Park, Rajiv Garg · 2026

presentation

User Opinion Mining for Effective Product Recommendations

Abiha Anjum, Rajiv Garg · 2025

LLM Systems & Applications

working paper

Substitutes and Complements in Machine-Written Science: What Context Do LLMs Actually Use to Reconstruct a Research Paper?

Wuxiong Wang, Rajiv Garg · 2026

working paper

RAG Chunking for Long- and Short-Form Text: Optimizing Retrieval Cost and Quality

Siyao Yu, Rajiv Garg · 2026

working paper

Human vs. AI Content on Instagram: An Agent-Based Simulation and Randomized Field Experiment

Runchu Chen, Rajiv Garg · 2026