Research
My research philosophy centers on the rigorous deployment of AI in high-stakes environments. Whether automating legal workflows at Flank or supporting mental health at Sentra, I believe that safety and reliability are not afterthoughts but core design constraints.
Agentic Reliability
Moving beyond stochastic outputs to auditable, protocol-driven actions. In legal tech, this means ensuring agents can handle objections and draft documents with precision and traceability.
Safety in Practice
Implementing concrete guardrails for vulnerability and risk. For Sentra and PsySafe, this involves detecting crisis signals and ensuring safe handoffs, bridging the gap between theoretical alignment and clinical reality.
Societal Impact
Grounded in my background in computational social science, I study how these deployments affect labor markets and human well-being, ensuring technology serves as a force for improvement rather than displacement.
Recent Publications
Scientific Reports: Personality Prediction from Voice
Our latest work published in Nature Portfolio's Scientific Reports demonstrates the validity of deep learning models in inferring Big Five personality traits from short audio clips.
Read the paper →
Ongoing Research
Passion vs. Pretense
Investigating the interaction between passion expression and voice, specifically focusing on distinguishing authentic from faked passion. This is a collaborative project with Kai Krautter.
Selected Speaking
Oxford Internet Institute
Start your own startup! workshop (Hosted by Fabian Braesemann)
LSE Executive Education
Guest Lecturer: Data Science and AI for Executives (Spring & Autumn)
LSE Executive Education
Guest Lecturer: Data Science for Executives
Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE) @ MIT
Discovering heterogeneity of treatment effects in conjoint experiments
International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
Probing causal inference in the face of interference: simulations of social networks
Rostock Retreat
Reputation systems and recruitment in online labor markets
Complex Networks and their Applications
Reputation systems and recruitment in online labor markets
Industrial Relations Conference in Europe (IREC)
Developing a cross-national comparative framework for studying labour market segmentation