Maya Okawa

Research Scientist at CBS-NTT Program, Harvard University.

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William James Hall - Harvard University

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Cambridge, MA 02138

I am a Research Scientist at the CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence at Harvard University, where I study the behavior of multi-agent AI systems, drawing on tools from physics, social science, and computer science.

I received an M.S. in physics from the University of Tokyo, where I contributed to the ATLAS experiment at CERN. In 2022, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at Kyoto University, where I began modeling the behavior of AI systems and their interactions with humans. My recent interests center on how interactions among AI agents shape collective behavior, including the emergence of consensus, bias, and diversity.

For a detailed overview of my work, please see my publications.

selected publications

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    How Selection Shapes Diversity in LLM Ecosystems
    Maya Okawa
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
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    Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates
    Maya Okawa
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
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    Emergence of Hierarchical Emotion Organization in Large Language Models
    Maya Okawa, Bo Zhao, Eric Bigelow, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
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