Awards and Honors

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACIS BCD 2024: Comparison of Best Paper Award Selection between program committee members and attendees: Case of an International Conference, Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab and Takayuki Ito

• Excellent Paper Award at KICSS 2023: A Digital Initiative to Address Girls Education Challenges in Collaboration with NPO in Post-2021 Afghanistan, Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab and Takayuki Ito

• JSAI 2023 Excellence Award at JSAI 2023: 全国大会優秀賞, 人工知能学会, Talent-Spotting in Online Deliberative Crowdsourcing Initiative, Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito

• Best Presenation Award at KICSS 2021: Facilitating Discussion on COVID-19 with Autonomous Facilitator: A Case Study on the Comparison of Expert Discussion versus the Public Paradigm Ratio of Reply for Agent Facilitation Post, Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab, Takayuki Ito

• Best Paper Award at KICSS 2020: Meeting the SDGs: Enabling the Goals by Cooperation with Crowd using Conversational AI Platform, Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Sofia Sahab, Rafik Hadfi, Takumi Sato and Shun Okuhara

• IBM Excellence Research Award at PAAMS 2020.

• IEEE Nagoya Section Best Presentation Award in IEEE International Conferences

• Awarded Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Ph.D. Scholarship, Japanese government-sponsored scholarships. approx.  68,0000$. April 2016–March 2019.

• Awarded JICA Scholarship (PEACE), Masters Program.  approx.  45,0000$. Oct 2011–Sept 2013.

• Received full Bachelor Program Scholarship through Afghanistan government-universities entrance exam, similar to Iran Konkour to attend 4-years NU Faculty of Engineering Afghanistan (2006-2010) .

• Topper (Top 3) of Faculty of Engineering Nangarhar University, Computer Science Dept. (B.Sc), batch 2006-2010.

• Ranked 1st -3rd throughout my academic career in school (First position until 9th grade, 2nd position from 10th to 12 grade).

Honors:

• Selected for participating in the Global Young Scientist Summit, held at Singapore link (January 2020).

Grants/Funds:

2023 

• Agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Title: From designing adaptive facilitation threshold to summarization timeline based on IBIS: Democratizing discussion in online education conversation, Role: PI, 4,550,000 Yen (April, 2023-Mar, 2027).

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Title: An IBIS-Focused Diverse Facilitation Timeline for Online Discussion, Role: PI, 1,000,000 Yen (April, 2023-Mar, 2024).

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency & National Research Council of Canada, Title: FureAI: An Implementation of an Elders ‘Living Support System based on Social Conversational Agents and Smart Activity Monitoring, Role: Participating member & Japan side focal point, 58 million yen (Japan side) $600,000 CAD, Canada side (April, 2023-Mar, 2026).

• Selected for JST CREST Extended Fund 2023 for my proposal. Title:  "Evaluating the effectiveness of LLM-based agent moderation for focus group discussion e-learning: An experimental study in Afghanistan"  amount 2,000,000 JPY. Role: PI.

2022 

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Title: Exploratory Data Analysis Of Russian and Ukrainian Opinions on Russian Invasion of Ukraine using Agent Technology, Role: PI, 1,000,000 Yen (April, 2022-Mar, 2023).

• Selected for CREST Extended Fund 2023 and received grant amount 2,000,000 JPY for my proposal. Role: PI.

2021

• Selected for CREST Extended Fund 2021 and received grant amount 3,000,000 JPY for my proposal. Role: PI.

2020 

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Title: HyperDemocracy : Large-scale Consensus Support Platfrom based on Social Multiagent Systems, Role: Project member, approx. $5 million (2021- 2026).

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Title: Promoting Urban Dialogue for SDGs Good through AI-based Discussion Support System in Afghanistan, Role: PI, 1,000,000 Yen (April, 2015-Mar, 2020).

2015 

• Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Title: Large-scale Consensus Support Systems based on Agent Technologies, Role: Project member, approx.  $5 million (2015- 2020).