Jawad Haqbeen

Program-Specific Assistant Professor (特定助教)

Graduate School of Informatics

Kyoto University 🇯🇵

Room: 206, Research Building No.9 (A), Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501

(Japanese: 京都市左京区吉田本町京都大学　総合研究9号館A棟 206室)

Email: jawad.haqbeen [at] i [dot] kyoto-u [dot] ac [dot] jp

I am a Program-Specific Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University, where I work with Ito Lab. I am part of the Consensus Informatics Group, and work on experimental foundations of conversational artificial intelligence interactions with society, particularly focusing the impact of AI tools on Intergroup relationship, deliberation, polarization, behavior change, learning outcome and wellbeing.

I pursue a multidisciplinary approach—drawing from social psychology and multi-agent systems—to understand the role of information and user needs in shaping the design of civic systems. My research focuses on the impact of digitalization and the algorithmification of society on communities. I study tools that leverage the strengths of collective human intelligence and artificial (AI) agents for solving real-word social issues. I apply a mix of qualitative (social insights, user perceptions) and quantitive (usage logs, activity metrics) methods to realize the collective behavior.

I have co-authored with colleagues from a variety of disciplines including computer science, information system, education, engineering, public health, social psychology and open to future collaborations.

I earned my PhD at Nagoya Institute of Technology, where I was co-advised by Takayuki Ito and Shohei Kato. Before moving to Japan, I taught Computer Science at Alberoni University.

Job Vacancy: I am hiring Research & Office Assistant(s). If you are interested to work in my project or collaborate with me or just have a chat, you may reach me at jawad.haqbeen(ατ)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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2025

☞ [2025/9/04] From Fall 2025, I will be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany (State University of New York).

☞ [2025/8/16-22] Attended IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, Canada, where I successfully organized the 6th International Workshop on Democracy & AI and served as Session Chair for the technical session ETF: Fairness and Diversity.

☞ [2025/8/19] During our visit to MILA, Montreal Canada, we had the opportunity to meet with several faculty members, including Professor Yoshua Bengio — a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning and the world’s most-cited computer scientist and also the most-cited living scientist across all fields.

☞ [2025/8/18] Our paper (Group Discussions Are More Positive with AI Facilitation: Evidence from VADER Sentiment Analysis by Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen, and Takayuki Ito) received Best Extended Abstract Paper Award at IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Democracy & AI (DemocrAI 2025)

☞ [2025/7/23] Our special track proposal "Digital Democracy & AI" has been accepted at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Agentic AI (IEEE iCA 2025), Wuhan, China. Looking forward to your submissions. Submissions should be made through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) via link by selecting Special Track 1.

☞ [2025/6/26-27] Attended and presented a poster "Democratizing & Enhancing Student Participation in Online Education with LLM-based Agent" at CREST 信頼されるAIシステム 2025年度上期領域ワークショップ, TKP Conference Center, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan.

☞ [2025/6/7] Our proposal "The 7th International Workshop on Democracy & AI" has been accepted at PRICAI 2025, Wellington, New Zealand. Looking forward to your submissions.

☞ [2025/6/13] Organized "Digital Democracy & AI" at DGO 2025, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

☞ [2025/5/16] Paper accepted at ACM CI 2025 conference, La Jolla, CA, USA.

☞ [2025/3/27] Paper accepted at d.go 2025 conference, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

☞ [2025/2/11-/28] From February 10 to March 28, 2025, I had the opportunity to serve as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

☞ [2025/3/13] I gave a lecture at Carleton University titled "Augmenting Social Interaction with AI for Social Good" Ottawa, Canada.

☞ [2025/3/4] Our proposal "The 6th International Workshop on Democracy & AI" has been accepted at IJCAI 2025, Montreal, Canada. Looking forward to your submissions.