NEWS😀
☞ [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.