Nov 2025: We publish a preprint of our working paper "Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes" on ArXiv. [publication]
Oct 2025: I attend the Democracy R&D Conference on 14 - 17 October in Brussels, Belgium. I presented the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform at the associated DelibTech Network meeting. [attend] [presentation]
Oct 2025: I attend the Digital Democracy The Hague conference by Polis NL on 9 and 10 October in The Hague, the Netherlands. [attend]
Sep 2025: I present one working paper on gender dynamics in the 2023 Meta Community Forum and am co-author of 3 other papers (experiment in Nepal; deliberative disengagement; and experiment in Finland) presented at the annual meeting of APSA in Vancouver, Canada. [attend] [presentation]
Sep 2025: I start a new position at Generation Lab, and moved (back) to the Netherlands. As part of my work, I remain a project lead for the Stanford Online Deliberation Platform. [personal update]
Sep 2025: I give 2 guest lectures on Societal Decision Making Online and Online Deliberation at Stanford's Sophomore College - Artificial Intelligence and Democracy. [teaching]
Aug 2025: I organize several sessions at and attend Wikimania, the international Wikimedia Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. [attend] [Wikimedia] [presentation]
May 2025: I present a new working paper on gender dynamics in the 2023 Meta Community Forum at the annual conference of the World Association on Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in St.Louis MO (joint work with Alexandra Cirone and Estelle Ciesla). [attend] [presentation]
Apr 2025: I present 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). [attend] [presentation]
Mar 2025: I am elected Chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee (Wikimania is the worldwide annual conference of the Wikimedia movement). [personal update] [Wikimedia]
Nov 2024: I am guest host at the WikiAfrica Hour (Episode 40), on the topic of "Wiki Conferences behind the scenes" (recording) [presentation] [Wikimedia]
Oct 2024: Mohak Goyal presents our paper "Estimating Contribution Quality in Online Deliberations Using a Large Language Model" at Human Computation and Crowdsourcing 2024 (joint work with myself, Bhargav Dindukurthi, Ashish Goel, and Alice Siu). [publication]
Sep 2024: our paper "Opinion Change or Differential Turnout: Changing Opinions on the Austin Police Department in a Budget Feedback Process" is published in Digital Government: Research and Practice (joint work with Ashish Goel). [publication]
Sep 2024: I give 2 guest lectures on "Engaging People in Societal Decision Making Online" and "Online Deliberation" at Stanford's Sophomore College - Artificial Intelligence and Democracy. [teaching]
Aug 2024: I organize a roundtable session on "international wiki photo competitions and armed conflict" at and attend Wikimania 2024, the international Wikimedia Conference in Katowice, Poland. [attend] [presentation] [Wikimedia]
Jul 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) [attend] [presentation]
Jun 2024: I present our paper "Rank, Pack, or Approve: Voting Methods in Participatory Budgeting" as a poster at the 18th International Conference on Web and Social Media in Buffalo NY. [attend] [presentation] [publication]
Apr 2024: I give a guest lecture on "Online Deliberation" at the America in One Room research practicum at Stanford University. [teaching]
Mar 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) [attend] [presentation]
Mar 2024: I give a guest lecture on "Online Deliberation" at Deliberative Governance of Knowledge and Innovation, Twente University. [teaching]