3. Cohort

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a part of the workplace. Current developments in AI are increasingly enabling interactions between humans and AI at work. In the process, the relationship between humans and AI is also changing to the effect that AI no longer acts only as a tool, but also as a social actor, e.g. as a member of a team. The impact on individuals and teams in the work context implied by the different roles of AI is the focus of this project.

Her research includes data mining, data management, and data processing for crowdsourcing platforms by applying machine learning techniques in conjunction with natural language processing techniques. The goal is to determine the user engagement and its effects on the crowdsourcing platform  by predicting the most advantageous parameters.

Multi Agent Systems (MAS), a part of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI), provides an avenue to develop and analyze models and theories of interactivity in human societies. Whereas traditional AI concentrates on agents as “intelligent stand-alone systems”, DAI concentrates on agents as “intelligent connected systems” and on intelligence as a property of systems that interact. This interaction between intelligent agents helps to provide succinct description and understanding about the collective behavior of intelligent agents in a social system. This opens the possibility to apply multi agent analysis to complex social systems; such as financial markets. As MAS begins to gain practical use in finance, its application can help to provide deep insights into the underlying phenomenon of the cross-section of asset returns. This project from a finance perspective provides a value addition as there are only few applications of agent-based models in finance.

Fateme Rezaei Badafshani has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Diginomics Research Group and in the team of Prof. Dr. Julia Kensbock (Professorship for Management and Organization in a Digitalized Society) and Dr. Katharina Klug at the University of Bremen since May 2023. She is working on the quality of interaction and required psychological skills in the virtual workplace.