Babak Naderi

Babak Naderi is a Researcher at the Quality and Usability Lab of Technical University of Berlin, where he has been employed since August 2012. He holds a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) from 2017 for his dissertation on Motivation of Workers on Microtask Crowdsourcing Platforms, a master's degree in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science from TU Berlin (2017), and a bachelor's in Software Engineering.

His research focuses on subjective quality assessment, speech quality evaluation in crowdsourcing environments, and motivation theory applied to microtask platforms. He developed the Crowdwork Motivation Scale based on Self-Determination Theory and has worked on standardization efforts within the P.CROWD work program of the ITU-T Standardization Sector.

His publications demonstrate expertise in crowdsourcing for speech quality assessment, statistical modeling of worker behavior, and text complexity analysis. He has contributed to IEEE and ITU-T venues while serving as a reviewer for conferences like WWW and journals including International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

• Awarded BMBF training program (2013-2015)
• Leader of the CrowdMAQA project