Awards and Honors
Awards:
JSAI 2023 Excellence Award at JSAI 2023
Best Presenation Award at KICSS 2021
Best Discussant Award at KICSS 2020.
Best Paper Award at KICSS 2020.
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).