Saurav Sharma

From economic agents to a research program.

My current program began from attempts to build economic decision agents and evolved into a broader investigation of where capable systems fail when they must identify governing structure before acting, acquire information without destroying future options, or respect constraints that become decisive only under stress.

I work independently and use controlled environments, exact solvers where possible, frozen evaluations, adversarial baselines, and explicit negative results to separate mechanism claims from benchmark narratives.

Background.

Experience studying and trading financial markets shaped my interest in execution, liquidity, credit constraints, tail risk, and decision-making under uncertainty.

IIT Madras.

BS student, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Research affiliation remains Independent Researcher.

Current focus.

• timing information acquisition when epistemic actions have endogenous consequences;
• decision-critical model misspecification in financial constraints;
• hidden-rule and rare-event decision environments;
• external validation protocols for the broader AEI program.

Public evidence boundary.

The public portfolio is intentionally narrower than the full private archive. I prefer to expose enough for serious technical scrutiny while preserving implementation details that are not necessary to evaluate the scientific claim.