About

Joshua Yang is a PhD student working in the SNF 'Digital Democracy' project at the chair of Computational Social Science at ETH Zürich. He mainly focuses on collective decision-making process supported by digital means, a topic that intersects voting behaviour, computational social choice, and civic tech. In the SNF project, he actively works with the city of Aarau on their implementation of a digital Participatory Budgeting platform. Prior to Zürich, Joshua participated in the Taiwanese civic tech community, and he also received his master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, with a focus on human-centred speech technology.

Research Interests

Democracy, International Relations, Political Participation, Public Choice, Voting, Decision Making, Experimental Design, Lab Experiments, Technology, Voting Behaviour, Big Data

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

Joshua C. has not yet joined any established ECPR Standing Groups or Research Networks.