Sven Eckhardt

Research Assistant

Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmuehlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zurich

Room: BIN 2.C.07
Email: eckhardt@ifi.uzh.ch

Work

Since 06/2021: Research Assistant and PhD Student at the Information Management Research Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
10/2020 - 03/2021: Applied Science Intern at Amazon in Tübingen, Germany
06/2020 - 09/2020: Student Assistant at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik in Karlsruhe Germany
01/2019 - 03/2020: Working Student at prenode GmbH in Karlsruhe Germany
08/2016 - 07/2017: Intern and Working Student at ec4u expert consulting ag in Karlsruhe Germany
08/2015 - 07/2016: Student Assistant at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik in Karlsruhe Germany

Education

10/2017 - 04/2021: Master of Science Information Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Thesis Topic: Inferring Causal Relations between Extreme Events
08/2017 - 06/2018: Exchange Term, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden
10/2014 - 08/2017: Bachelor of Science Information Engineering and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Thesis Topic: Applied Deep Learning for Text Classification

Check available topics on our page: Theses

If you are interested in doing the master thesis or project with me or, if you have any ideas for new projects - feel free to contact me.

2024
- Eckhardt, Sven; Dolata, Mateusz; Bauer-Hänsel, Ingrid; Schwabe, Gerhard (2024). Conceptualizing Multi-party AI Reliance for Design Research. In: 19th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2024, Trollhättan, Sweden, 3 June 2024 - 5 June 2024. Springer (Bücher), 51-65.
- Leiser, Florian; Eckhardt, Sven; Leuthe, Valentin; Knaeble, Merlin; Mädche, Alexander; Schwabe, Gerhard; Sunyaev, Ali (2024). HILL: A Hallucination Identifier for Large Language Models. In: CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu HI USA, 11 May 2024 - 16 May 2024, ACM Digital library.
- Bucher, Andreas; Dolata, Mateusz; Eckhardt, Sven; Staehelin, Dario; Schwabe, Gerhard (2024). Talking to Multi-Party Conversational Agents in Advisory Services: Command-based vs. Conversational Interactions. In: GROUP 2025, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, 12 January 2025 - 15 January 2025. ACM Digital library, 1-25.
- Sprenkamp, Kilian; Delgado Fernandez, Joaquin; Eckhardt, Sven; Zavolokina, Liudmila (2024). Overcoming intergovernmental data sharing challenges with federated learning. Data & Policy, 6:e27.

2023
- Leiser, Florian; Eckhardt, Sven; Knaeble, Merlin; Maedche, Alexander; Schwabe, Gerhard; Sunyaev, Ali (2023). From ChatGPT to FactGPT: A Participatory Design Study to Mitigate the Effects of Large Language Model Hallucinations on Users. In: MuC '23: Mensch und Computer 2023, Rapperswil Switzerland, 3 September 2023 - 6 September 2023. ACM Digital library, 81-90.
- Sprenkamp, Kilian; Delgado Fernandez, Joaquin; Eckhardt, Sven; Zavolokina, Liudmila (2023). Federated learning as a solution for problems related to intergovernmental data sharing. In: 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui (HI), USA, 3 Januar 2023 - 6 Januar 2023.
- Eckhardt, Sven; Bucher, Andreas; Kalunder, Madlaina; Dolata, Mateusz; Agotai, Doris; Schwabe, Gerhard (2023). Secondary Mental Models: Introducing Conversational Agents in Financial Advisory Service Encounters. In: Forty-Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, Hyderabad, India, 9 December 2023 - 13 December 2023. Association for Information Systems, online.
- Eckhardt, Sven; Knaeble, Merlin; Bucher, Andreas; Staehelin, Dario; Dolata, Mateusz; Agotai, Doris; Schwabe, Gerhard (2023). “Garbage In, Garbage Out”: Mitigating Human Biases in Data Entry by Means of Artificial Intelligence. In: INTERACT 2023 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference, York, UK, 28 August 2023 - 1 September 2023. Springer, 27-48.

2022
- Eckhardt, Sven; Sprenkamp, Kilian; Zavolokina, Liudmila; Bauer, Ingrid; Schwabe, Gerhard (2022). Can Artificial Intelligence Help Used-Car Dealers Survive in a Data-driven Used-Car Market?. In: DESRIST 2022: 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, St Petersburg, FL, USA, 1 June 2022 - 3 June 2022, University of South Florida.