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Subliminal learning reproduction accepted at BlackboxNLP 2026
Our reproduction of the subliminal learning results from Cloud et al. was accepted to the special track on Reproducibility and Reliability in Interpretability Analyses at BlackboxNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP in…
Read →Best Poster Honorable Mention at CUI '26 in Bremen
Our poster on a typology of user engagement in conversational agent voting advice applications received an honorable mention at the ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. Read the paper. In this work we tried…
Read →Nominated for UZH's Engagement Award for Special Commitment
Nominated for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics' Engagement Award for Special Commitment, recognising work as PhD representative and member of hiring committees at the Department of Informatics (IfI)…
Read →Paper on recommendation certainty in VAAs published in Politics and Governance
My second paper as a PhD student — not first author this time. Very grateful to Fynn for another great collaboration. In this paper, we develop a statistical model that estimates the certainty of candidate…
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Second time at the DSI's Digital Democracy Workshop
The sixth annual Digital Democracy Workshop ran 13–14 November 2025 at the DSI. I presented "Personalised Summarisation for Swiss Leaflets", with Cristina Sarasua and Abraham Bernstein.
Read →Back at EDDY for the second edition, in Paris
The second EDDY conference ran 12–13 June 2025 at the Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne in Paris. I presented "AutoDQI: An Automated Measurement of Deliberation Quality" — an attempt to score the quality of deliberation…
Read →Paper on adaptive political surveys with GPT-4 published in PLoS One
My first paper as a PhD student! Very happy to have collaborated with Fynn to get this published in PLoS One. We looked at how well GPT-4 can mimic user responses in a political survey, and how such synthetic data helps…
Read →Alan's Speakeasy took third place in the WWW '25 demo track
Our demo paper on Alan's Speakeasy, an ecosystem for evaluating conversational agents, was awarded Demo Paper Third Place at The Web Conference 2025. Read the paper.
Read →Received a CIRES Travel Grant for a research visit to Brisbane
While visiting WWW, I got the opportunity through a travel grant to visit the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane. Here I gave an invited talk about my PhD, and worked on a new project together with my colleagues.
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Admitted to the DSI PhD Excellence Program with a personal grant
Selected for the Digital Society Initiative's PhD Excellence Program, a competitive interdisciplinary programme that comes with a personal research grant of CHF 5,000.
Read →Took part in the first EDDY conference in Rotterdam
The first conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy (EDDY), "Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice", ran 9–11 April 2024 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I presented a poster there, "Partisan…
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Started a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Zurich
Joined the Department of Informatics at UZH as a PhD student, working on the Digital Deliberative Democracy (D3). Ever since visiting Zurich in 2021 for a weekend, I immediately had the feeling that this would be the…
Read →Paper on the Dutch data center imaginary published in Big Data & Society
During my work as a research assistant at Utrecht Data School, one of our projects was on the building of data centers. It was a hot topic in the Netherlands at the time, as more and more of them were put in place, with…
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Presented "Bursting the Burden Bubble?" at BNAIC 2022
For our course on Human Centered Machine Learning, we assessed Sharma et al.'s counterfactual-based fairness metric and presented it at the final poster session. Our instructor liked the idea and asked whether we wanted…
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