# Joshua C. Yang Joshua C. Yang researches democratic technology, collective decision making, participatory budgeting, deliberation, voting systems, civic AI, and multi-agent LLM deliberation. ## Main Pages - Website: https://www.joshuacyang.com/ - Publications: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/ - Projects: https://www.joshuacyang.com/projects/ - CV: https://www.joshuacyang.com/cv/ ## Publications - Belief Engine: Configurable and Inspectable Stance Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/belief-engine/ Auditable belief updating for multi-agent LLM deliberation, with structured memory, evidence uptake, prior anchoring, and human DEBATE replay validation. - LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/llm-voting/ Empirical comparison of GPT-4 Turbo and LLaMA-2 voting behavior against human participatory budgeting choices, including order effects, personas, chain-of-thought, and temperature. - Komitee Equal Shares: A Hybrid Algorithm for Priceable Participatory Funding: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/komitee-equal-shares/ Field-tested participatory funding algorithm from Winterthur combining voter preferences, impact-field evaluation, Method of Equal Shares, priceability, and voting receipts. - Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/designing-digital-voting-systems/ - Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/bridging-voting-deliberation/ Hybrid democratic innovation paper on preference-based clustering, human-in-the-loop Method of Equal Shares, ReadTheRoom opinion mapping, vTaiwan, and Kultur Komitee. - Upgrading Democracies with Fairer Voting Methods: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/upgrading-democracies-fairer-voting/ - Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/democracy-by-design/ - Democratizing Traffic Control in Smart Cities: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/democratizing-traffic-control/ - Exploring Legitimacy in a Municipal Budget Decision in Switzerland: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/exploring-legitimacy-swiss-budget/ - A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN): https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/depin-taxonomy/ - Respeaking for Word-Spotting as a Collaborative Transcription Method for Oral Languages: https://www.joshuacyang.com/pubs/respeaking-word-spotting/