Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Research Assistant

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 70
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: demir@zsi.at

Publications:

Running and completed projects:

• FOR FREIGHT - Flexible, multi-mOdal and Robust FREIGHt Transport (2022)
• AT-Nordamerika - Kooperationen in Lehre und Forschung zwischen Österreich und Nordamerika (2021)
• Evaluation of the European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation: Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness related to the Green Transition (2021)
• SIVOCS - Social Innovation as Valuation and Outcome Category of SNSF Funded Research (2021)
• IntelComp - A Competitive Intelligence Cloud/HPC Platform for AI-based STI Policy Making (2021)
• LEAP-RE - Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy (2020)
• KNOWMAK Support (2020)
• KNoC - ISF Support to the Knowledge Network on China (2020)
• Analysis of Austria-China Co-publications 2013-2018 (2019)

Education and career:

Utku has joined the ZSI as a junior expert in quantitative methods, including machine learning applications. He is a master's student in political science and also continuing a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna. He is academically focusing on the critical theories of digitalization with the reflection on algorithmic governmentality, surveillance, profiling and anticipation. His interest areas are political theory, quantitative research methods, statistics and probability theory, as well as mathematical modelling. Allocated to the research policy & development department at ZSI and building on his prior methodological experience, he has become part of the data science team in mid 2020. He is mainly engaged in bibliometric studies, quantitative analysis, data visualisation, NLP/topic modelling methods, and rapid software prototyping.