Assistant Professor Dr. Dmitri Bershadskyy

About me

I work as Assistant Professor at the WU Vienna at the institute for Digital Ecosystems. I am a methodologically versatile economist working on topics of digital and natural ecosystems and striving for fruitful interdisciplinary research between economics and various fields of engineering. My scientific credo is: "Theory and Empirics are just two sides of the same coin. It is our task to demonstrate this."

 Academic Short Profile

Research focus

Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Lie Detection, AI, Software Engineering

Research methods

Laboratory and Online Experiments, Surveys, Structural Literature Review, Software Engineering

Teaching experience

Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Applied Behavioral Economics and Digitalization 

Scientific Presentations

Among others at conference of: Economic Science Association (ESA), Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), Jahrestagung vom Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS), International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), German Association for Experimental Economic Research (GfeW), International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD)

Guest Lectures and other Presentations

Society for Consumer Research ("Artificial Intelligence - Between Phantasy and Practice"); Zeppelin University ("Lying and Lie Detection"); University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg ("Motivation in Sports"); Various Science Slams; Various presentations at "Long Night of the Sciences" and "Science Festival".

Most recent activities (December. 2025)

Conferences to meet in 2026: IMEBESS in Prague (09.-11.07), European ESA (02.-05.09) in Barcelona , WI-Conference (06.-09.09.) in Linz.

Our short paper comparing the performance of CNN-based with Action Unit based was published in the ISPA 2025  conference proceedings.

Our DFG project on the effects of AI-based lie detection was renewed. Three more years of research and development on AI-lie detectors. In addition to my position in Vienna, I remain project lead. Check out, what we do here. We are hiring two Research Assistants at the OVGU Magdeburg in September/October for 3-years-contracts.

Based on our interdisciplinary research with software engineers and psychologist we contributed to the official guidelines on standards in software engineering experiments: https://www2.sigsoft.org/EmpiricalStandards/docs/standards?standard=Experiments#. Four requests integrated and one pending.

For an extensive summary, see my CV.

Contact: 

Institute for Digital Ecosystems

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dmitri[at]bershadskyy.com