| Mar 10, 2026 | We just ran another round of Kultur Komitee in Winterthur! This year, we followed a multi-step Method of Equal Shares (MES) process that focused more on helping participants learn about the projects in smaller subsets.  |
| Mar 01, 2026 | We have a first-authored paper appearing at the MemAgent Workshop at ICLR! We incorporated Bayesian updating into the memory structure of AI agents for social simulation, leading to more stable and realistic opinion shifts.  |
| Feb 01, 2026 | Our first-authored poster paper on our Kultur Komitee fieldwork got accepted to CHI Barcelona! We tested the idea of a “Priceable” method to support both voting and deliberation, along with Voting Receipts. See you there in April!  |
| Oct 01, 2025 | I became a postdoc in the Computational Social Science team at ETH Zurich! (Feeling old now) 🥸 |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Our study on how AI models vote compared to humans was covered by the Swiss public broadcaster RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse)! The coverage highlights our findings that AI models show more uniform behavior and conform to dominant discourses (WEIRD bias) compared to diverse human preferences.  |
| Jun 30, 2025 |  I successfully defended my PhD thesis “Designing Computational Methods for Digital Democracy” at ETH Zurich. 🎓 |
| Mar 01, 2025 | I implemented the algorithm for another year of Kultur Komitee Winterthur and developed a framework Komitee Equal Shares that allowed 400,000 CHF to be distributed using both group discussion and individual votes. |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Kultur Komitee Winterthur 2024 has concluded. Among the 400,000 CHF budget, half was distributed using the Method of Equal Shares using an interactive webpage in the citizen assembly.  |