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HDBW-PROFESSOR DR. STEFAN PASCH: ACADEMIC PROFILE
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Position at HDBW
Professor of Business Informatics
Courses Taught:
Methods of AI | Big Data in Practice | Introduction to Business Informatics | Introduction to Knowledge and Information Management
Research Areas
Human-AI Interaction, AI Governance, Ethical AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Big Data Analytics
Professional Career
Since 2026: Hochschule der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (HDBW), München
Professor of Business Informatics
2024 – 2026: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
Postdoctoral AI Researcher
2024: Boston Consulting Group Platinion, Frankfurt am Main
IT Consultant
2020 – 2024: SVA, Wiesbaden
Data Scientist
2015 – 2020: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Research Assistant
Studies
2018 – 2020: Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. rer. pol. (PhD) in Quantitative Management (summa cum laude)
2014 – 2018: Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM)
Master of Science in Quantitative Management
2011 – 2014: Goethe University Frankfurt
Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration
Awards
- European Statistics Award (Eurostat) - Web Intelligence, Reproducibility Award: 1st place (team)
- ACM Financial Data Science Competition (sponsored by J.P. Morgan) - Financial Relation Extraction Challenge: 1st place (team)
Publications
- Pasch, S., & Cha, M. C. (2026). Do ethical AI principles matter to users? A large-scale analysis of user sentiment and satisfaction. Telematics and Informatics, 102381.
- Pasch, S. (2026). LLM content moderation and user satisfaction: Evidence from response refusals in Chatbot Arena. Behaviour & Information Technology, 45(10), 2007-2031.
- Pasch, S., & Ha, S. Y. (2026). Human–AI interaction and user satisfaction: Empirical evidence from online reviews of AI products. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 42(7), 5570-5591.
- Pasch, S., Lee, S., & Cha, M. C. (2026). Exploring UX dimensions and experience-levels in VR gaming: insights from online reviews using transformer models. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 42(4), 2247-2261.
- Jung, S., Han, S., Yoo, G. Y., Pasch, S., Ji, Y. G., Kim, H., & Cha, M. C. (2026). Uneven by design: How generative AI interfaces reinforce digital divides across modalities. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-32.
- Kang, H., Pasch, S., & Cha, M. C. (2026). Understanding the temporal dynamics of user experience in VR gaming: Evidence from large-scale game reviews. Computers in Human Behavior, 109158.
- Pasch, S., & Cha, M. C. (2025). Balancing privacy and utility in personal LLM writing tasks: An automated pipeline for evaluating anonymizations. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing (PrivateNLP), NAACL 2025.
- Pasch, S., & Cutura, J. (2024). Text classification with limited training data: Suicide risk detection on social media. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 8560-8565). IEEE.
- Koch, S., & Pasch, S. (2023). CultureBERT: Measuring corporate culture with transformer-based language models. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 3176-3184). IEEE.
- Cutura, J., & Pasch, S. (2023). Breaking the U: Asymmetric U-Net for object recognition in muon tomography. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 6069-6075). IEEE.
- Heinz, M., Friebel, G., Pasch, S., & Sabet, N. (2023). The 30 Years' War and violent crime in the late 19th century. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 208, 191-202.
- Pasch, S., & Ehnes, D. (2022). NLP for responsible finance: Fine-tuning transformer-based models for ESG. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 3532-3536). IEEE.
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