Janna Lu

Peng, Bo, Ruichong Zhang, Daniel Goldstein, Eric Alcaide, Haowen Hou, Janna Lu, William Merrill et al. "RWKV-7" Goose" with Expressive Dynamic State Evolution." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14456 (2025).  COLM 2025 (top 1% of submissions).

Goldstein, Daniel, Eric Alcaide, Janna Lu, and Eugene Cheah. “RADLADS: Rapid Attention Distillation to Linear Attention Decoders at Scale.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.03005 (2025). COLM 2025 (top 5% of submissions).

Lu, Janna Z. 2024. “Don’t Forget Institutions: A Review Essay of Economics of Prosperity by Shawn Ritenour.” Review of Austrian Economics.

Lu, Janna Z. 2021. “Effects of Partial Scholarships for Education Majors.” Grove City College Journal of Law & Public Policy 12: 145–70.

Select Working Papers

"Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Forecasting Against Expert Forecasters"

"Tacit Knowledge in Large Language Models" (R&R at Review of Austrian Economics)

"Spinning Tales of Doom"

“Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT Walk into an Auction"

"Cradle of Organized Firefighting"

Awards and Fellowships

Emergent Ventures, 2024 

#7 (out of 40+ contestants) in Metaculus Q4 AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament, 2024

#9 (out of 50+ contestants) in Metaculus Q3 AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament, 2024

Special Category Winner, AI Agents Hackathon, Lablab and MindsDB, 2024

Bradley Fellowship, Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2023-2024

Graduate Summer Fellow, American Institute of Economic Research (AIER), 2023

Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, Mercatus Center, 2023

Graduate Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2022-

Ph.D. Fellowship, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2022-

Participant, Summer Honors Program, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 2022

Fellow, Don Lavoie Fellowship Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2021

Runner-up, Paper of the Year (Social Sciences), Omicron Delta Kappa (OΔK), Grove City College, 2020

Conferences

Public Choice Society 61st Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX: March 2024. “Cradle of Firefighting.”

SEA 93rd Meeting, New Orleans, LA: November 2023. “Auctions, Bargaining, and Price Formation”

APEE 47th Meeting, Cancun, Mexico: April 2023. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting”

Markets and Society Conference, Vienna, VA: October 2022. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting”

Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City, PA: February 2022. “Cradle of Organized Firefighting,” “Ownership of Fire Protection Services”

Selected Popular Writings