Engaging citizens in complex policy decisions

I'm a postdoctoral scholar at the Deliberative Democracy Lab in the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and a member of the Crowdsourced Democracy Team. My research focuses on developing online technology and methods for decision makers to better engage residents in their decision processes. 

I'm a project lead of the Self-Moderating Platform for Online Deliberation, an online video chat platform that can scale small-group conversations with a structured agenda, and the Stanford Participatory Budgeting platform. In 2023 I received my PhD in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, where I studied with my advisor Ashish Goel.

Over the course of many years, I have been an active contributor and volunteer in the Wikipedia/Wikimedia community, and served in various roles. I was one of the founders and a core organizer of the photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments, and was named the 2021 Wikimedia Laureate.

Some Updates

• September 2025: we will present two new working papers at the annual meeting of APSA in Vancouver, Canada (joint work with Alexandra Cirone, Estelle Ciesla and Naman Gupta).

• May 2025: I will present a new working paper at the annual conference of the World Association on Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in St.Louis (joint work with Alexandra Cirone and Estelle Ciesla).

• April 2025: I presented a new working paper based on my work on Participatory Budgeting voting methods as a lightning talk at the 82nd Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago IL (joint work with Ashish Goel).

• March 2025: I was elected Chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee (Wikimania is the worldwide annual conference of the Wikimedia movement). 

• November 2024: I am guest host at the WikiAfrica Hour (Episode 40), on the topic of "Wiki Conferences behind the scenes" (recording)

• July 2024: I present "Ten Years of the Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform" at the First Workshop on New Directions in Social Choice at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’24), New Haven CT. (recording)

• March 2024: I present "Voting in Participatory Budgeting" based on joint work with Ashish Goel's Crowdsourced Democracy Team at the 21st Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 21x), Pasadena CA. (recording)