Teaching & Supervision

Teaching

Winter semseter 26/27: I am co-teaching the course Informatics and Society with colleagues from our research group–as in previous years. This course is mandatory for Bachelor students in Computer Science/Business Informatics at TU Berlin.

Summer semester 26: I co-taught the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in ML course, the Critical Data Science seminar, and the NLP for Social Good programming project with colleagues from our research group. All three are elective courses for CS students.

In previous semesters, I have (co-)taught the following courses:

  • Problems of Technology for Society: guest lecture at Göttingen University (for Bachelors of Data Science), 2023
  • “AI for the Public Interest”: guest lecture at Erfurt University (for the course “KĂĽnstliche Intelligenz als Herausforderung der Demokratie”), 2023
  • AI in Society and Economics course at the Digital Business University Berlin (part of the Master of Data Science program), 2022
  • Inter- and Intra- Organizational Decision Making: course manager & main instructor (masters level), TU Delft, 2016-2020
  • MEAC Summer School on Internet Governance: held in Cairo, 2018, and Rabat, 2019.
  • Preparation for Master Thesis: digital economy theme, TU Delft, 2019-2020
  • Grand Research Challenges: privacy governance/engineering theme, TU Delft, 2017-2018

In the distant past, I was a trainer for industry networking and development courses.

PhD Mentoring

  • Dr. Freya Hewett — mentored and co-authored on text simplification and accessibility of German texts, as part of my role at HIIG (doctorate awarded at U Potsdam, supervised by Prof. Manfred Stede).
  • Dr. RenĂ© Mahieu — mentored and co-authored on data-access and data-protection rights; served on his doctoral defense committee (doctarate awarded at VU Brussels, supervised by Profs. Joris van Hoboken and Paul de Hert).

Master Theses Supervision

I am open to supervising master students at TU Berlin who are interested in working on topics close to my current interests and published research. If that is you, reach out to me, and don’t forget to mention the research interest or paper that got you interested (plus your own ideas).

Between 2016 and 2020, I supervised the following technology policy master thesis projects (as first supervisor) at TU Delft:

Student Thesis Topic Year
A. Khaleghi Towards Achieving Gender Equality in Automated Loan Approval Processes 2020
E. Leontaris Experiment to Evaluate Vices & Opportunities of Micro-Targeted Ads in Public Policy 2020
T. Rovers Do They Really Value Your Privacy? Exploratory Analysis of Privacy Statements 2019
C. McMullen Policy Mythology: A Case Study 2019
T. van Biemen Personal Privacy in Practice: Putting the GDPR to Test with the Right of Access 2018
E. Turcios-Rodriguez Tracking Cookies in the European Union: an Empirical Analysis 2018
W. Moraal Privacy for Burdened Minds: Online Privacy Trade-offs on Cognitive Bandwidth 2018
B. Hup The Adoption and Diffusion of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies 2017
D. Rahmi-Faradina Towards the Adoption of EU General Data Protection Regulation: a Study of Business Perceptions 2017
J. Heins Improving Trust in Cloud Computing 2017
M. Baltoglou Exploring Merchants’ Reluctance to Adopt e-Commerce Anti-Fraud Tools 2017
R. Crone Big Data Veracity Assessment: Improving Risk Assessment in Contents Insurance Models 2016

Last Update: Oct 2026.