| May 10, 2026 | I’m hosting the Swiss AI Futures Citizen Assembly in Zurich and Lausanne! We’re testing out how AI can help people deliberate both online and in-person for national AI policy. The assembly will run in June, we’ll be sharing the results with the Swiss Parliament. Check it out: swissaifutures.org |
| Apr 10, 2026 | I presented “Komitee Equal Shares: A Hybrid Algorithm for Priceable Participatory Funding” at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) in Barcelona, April 2026! Read the paper |
| 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 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.  |
| 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.   |