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SERDULT UWE IMRE

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering

Academic background
1.	2004/01 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Zurich, Switzerland │ Dr. phil.
2.	1996/06 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Zurich, Switzerland │ lic. phil. I
3.	～2000/12	Doctorial Course │ Political Science │ Department of Political Science │ University of Zurich │ Completed

Business career
1.	2016/10/01 ～ 2016/10/31	Guest lecturer │ │ Andrassy University, Budapest, Hungary
2.	2015/04/01 ～ 2015/04/30	Guest lecturer │ │ Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
3.	2014/10/01 ～ 2015/03/31	Guest lecturer │ │ Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland
4.	2010/02/01 ～ 2010/07/31	Lecturer │ Political Science Department │ University of Geneva, Switzerland
5.	2008/01/01 ～ 2013/07/31	Lecturer │ │ MACIS program, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Committee and society
1.	2017/01 ～ 2021/01	State Ministry Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany Academic Council for Civil Society and Citizen Participation
2.	2011/01 ～ 2015/12	Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW ICT committee

Research activities
1.		IFIP WG8.5: Information Systems in Public Administration

Subject of research
1.	Internet Voting, e-petition, voting advice applications

Research summary
Digital Democracy Research Ongoing research includes: a) statistical analysis of digital divide and trust in ICT among internet voters using partial least squares structural equation models, b) systematic worldwide assessment of the use of digital signatures for the endorsement of different forms of e-petitions, c) to investigate individual (internet) voter behavior over time with the help of big data techniques for vote registry data, d) to investigate whether the success or failure of election candidates can be related to their respective activities in social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. Special attention will be paid to the way how candidates were presented in traditional (online) newspapers in contrast to social media (journal article).

Present specialized field
Human interface and interaction, Web informatics, Service informatics, Politics (Keyword：E-Government, E-Participation, E-Democracy, Social Network Analysis, Digital Social Science)

Books
1.	2024/06/05	Switzerland
2.	2021/01/15	The Referendum Experience in Switzerland │ ,pp.203-224
3.	2020/07	Innovations in Information and Communication Science and Technology. Proc. 5th Intl. Workshop IICST2020, Malang, Indonesia, March 9, 2020.
4.	2020/03/01	Recall in Japan as a Measure of Vertical Accountability │ ,pp.95-116
5.	2020/02	Special on Survey Methodology: What is the price of going fully online?A mixed-mode sampling experiment on the occasion of the Swiss general elections 2019 │ ,pp.1-30
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Papers
1.	2025/01/07	Introduction to the Minitrack on e-Democracy, e-Participation and e-Voting │ Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences │
2.	2025/01/05	Benchmarking with a Language Model Initial Selection for Text Classification Tasks │ machine learning & knowledge extraction │ 7 (1)
3.	2024/11/09	A Domain-Specific Language Model for Processing Indonesian Government SDG Documents │ big data and cognitive computing │ 8 (11),pp.153
4.	2024/08/06	Enhancing the design of voting advice applications with BERT language model │ Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence │ 7
5.	2024/06/11	A BERT-based Approach to Alleviate Civic Tech Tools Overcrowding: A case study of Taiwan’s JOIN e-petition system │ DGO '24: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research │ ,pp.695-702
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/04/16	The Impact of Voting Advice Applications: Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Japan
2.	2020/02/04	What is the price of going fully online? A large-scale sampling experiment on the occasion of the Swiss general elections
3.	2019/09/04	We Know What You Will Do Next Summer: A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Internet Voting With Electoral Register Data
4.	2019/03/07	The Ideological Dimension of Response Latency Data: Evidence from Swiss referendum surveys
5.	2018/03/01	Turning the Tables: Investigating Political Stress of Election Candidates as an Explanatory Variable for Online Activity in Social Media
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Other research achievements
1.	2024/10/01 ～ 2025/09/30	Guest Professor (University for Continuing Education, Krems, Austria)

Winning science prize
1.	2022/10/07	ICEGOV 2022 Conference Best Paper Award for the Best Research Paper (Introducing the DigiPart-Index: mapping and explaining digital political participation on the subnational level in Switzerland)
2.	2019/03/25	EGOV-CeDem-ePart Conference 2019 Best Paper Nomination for the most compelling, critical research reflection (Reconnecting Citizens to Politics via Blockchain: Starting the Debate)

Activity in society
1.	2020/09/01 ～	Advisory Board Member, PIT Solutions
2.	2018/11/01 ～	Academic Advisor, Procivis Think Tank
3.	2014/09/01 ～	Academic Evaluator, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru

Message
1.	Research Statement Within the field digital democracy I am especially interested in the analysis of internet based platforms and tools for citizens (e-participation) as well as public administrations (e-government) in order to enhance transparency and deliberation in an information society.

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