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2025

☞ [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.

2024

☞ [2024/11/25-26] Attended CREST Research Area 2024 Conference (CREST 信頼される AI システム 2024 年度領域会議) and give a talk and poster presentation on project “LLM-based facilitation chatbots enhance student's learning outcomes in the online learning process", The Cube Hotel Chiba, Chiba, Japan.

☞ [2024/11/17-24] As a Local Arrangement Chair, organized the 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2024/11/17-24] As a Local Arrangement Chair, organized the 25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2024/11/19] As a Workshop Chair and Organizing Committee member (primary contact), organized the  5th International Workshop on Democracy and AI in conjunction with PRICAI 2024, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2024/10/25-27] Visited the Department of Electronics, Faculty of Engineering & Design at Carleton University, and met with Prof. Shichao Liu 's team in Ottawa, Canada, for a research collaboration.

☞ [2024/10/25] Visited the the National Research Council (NRC), and met with Dr. George Xiao's team in Ottawa, Canada, for a research collaboration.

☞ [2024/10/24] Attended and presented at Japan-Canada Symposium at Toronto Grace Health Center in Toronto, Canada.

☞ [2024/09/24-26] Attended and presented at Informatik 2024 at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany.

☞  [2024/09/20] Attended and presented at DDAI 2024 at Gdansk University of Technology in Poland.

☞ [2024/08/26] As an organising member, we will organize the 1sth International Symposium on FUtuRe of Elderly-care based on AI (FUREAI 2024), Aichi Medical Collage, Aichi, Japan.

☞ [2024/07/17] Our paper, 'Comparison of Best Paper Award selection between program committee members and attendees: Case of an international conference' presented during IEEE/ACIS BCD 2024 in Kitakyushu Japan, won the best paper award.

☞ [2024/05/12] As a Track Chair, organized the 1st Track on Digital Democracy & AI at 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024), National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.

☞ [2024/05/01] Our proposal "The 5th International Workshop on Democracy & AI" has been accepted at PRICAI 2024, Japan. Looking forward to your submissions.

☞ [2024/05/01] A co-authored paper has been accepted at ACM CI 2024, USA.

☞ [2024/03/09 & 19] Two papers has been accepted at DGO 2024, Taipei, Taiwan. 

☞ [2024/03/06] One co-authored paper has been accepted at Communications Psychology  (Nature Portfolio).

☞ [2024/03/3-4] Attended and presented at JST AIP Challenge 2023 Debrief Conference in Tokyo, Japan.

☞ [2024/02/21] Attended and presented at 4th Consensus and Co-Creation Study Group in Hokkaido, Japan.

2023

☞ [2023/12/23] Invited to serve as Local Arrangement Co-Chair at The 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence  (PRICAI 2024), Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2023/12/23] Invited to serve as Local Arrangement Co-Chair at The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024), Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2023/12/07] One co-authored paper has been accepted at IEICE Transaction on Information and Systems.

☞ [2023/12/04-06] As a Local Arrangement Chair, organized the 7th IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA2023), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2023/11/29] Attended and moderated the Kick-off meeting of Japan-Canada SICORP International Consortium Project (online).

☞ [2023/11/25-26] Attended CREST Research Area 2023 Conference (CREST 信頼される AI システム 2023 年度領域会議) and give a talk and poster presentation on my AIP Challenge Program project “An IBIS-Focused Diverse Facilitation Timeline for Online Discussion", Cross Wave Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.

☞ [2023/11/22] Invited to give a talk on "Conversational AI for Participatory Democracy" at Prof. Uwe SERDÜELT Seminar, College of Information Science and Engineering, Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (BKC) of Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan.

☞ [2023/12/16] As a Workshop Chair and Organizing Committee member (primary contact), organized the  3rd International Workshop on Democracy and AI in conjunction with PRICAI2023, Jakarta, Indonesia.

☞ [2023/10/8-12] Attended the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) 2023 in Kyoto, Japan.

☞ [2023/09/22] Our paper "A Digital Initiative to Address Girls Education Challenges in Collaboration with NPO in Post-2021 Afghanistan" has been selected as Excellent Paper Award at KICSS 2023, Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Kitakyushu, Japan.

☞ [2023/09/03] Two papers and two co-authored papers been accepted by KICSS 2023.

☞ [2023/08/23] Our track proposal " Digital Democracy & AI" has been accepted at DGO 2024, Taiwan. Looking forward to discussing new emerging technologies that improve democratic inclusion!

☞ [2023/08/23] One co-authored paper has been accepted at Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio).

☞ [2023/07/20]  Our paper has been selected for JSAI Annual Conference Award by JSAI board meeting. (人工知能学会全国大会優秀発表賞を受賞しました。)

☞ July`23:  Our paper is nominated for Best Poster Award Nomination (Top 3, got third position based on number of received votes) at DG.O 2023.

☞ July`23:  Our Japan (JST)/ Canada (NRC) Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SCORP)  International Consortium Project Proposal "FureAI: An Implentation of an Elders'Living Support System based on Social Conversational Agents and Smart Activity Monitoring" is accepted at Japan-Canada SICORP. My role was primary contact and registered project member on Japanese team side.

☞ June`23:  Our paper "Facilitating Discussion Element-specific Problem-solving Conversations using Conversational Agent: Case of IBIS" is nominated for Best Paper Award Nomination (Top 4) at GDN 2023,  Tokyo, Japan.

☞ June`23:  Our paper "The Moderating Role of AI-Assisted Online Discussion Forums in Promoting Social Solidarity During Crisis: A Preliminary Analysis" is accepted at DemocrAI workshop which is going to be held in conjunction with IJCAI-24,  Macao, S.A.R. See you in Macau from August 19th-25th, 2023.

      ☞ May`23: Invited to serve as Program Committee for The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24 ),  February 20-27, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada 

☞ May`23: My proposal “An IBIS-Focused Diverse Facilitation Timeline for Online Discussion" is accepted for grant of JST AIP Challenge 2023 Program at  AIP Network Laboratory of JST, Japan.

       ☞ May`23: I am serving as Co-Chair and  Organizing Committee member (primary contact) of  3rd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023a), Jakarta,Indonesia. Submissions are welcome!

       ☞ Apr`23: Invited to serve as session chair at the  18th Annual  Midwest United States Association for Information Systems (MWAIS) Conference  (MWAIS 2023),  Saint Paul, MN, USA.

☞ Apr`23:  Our paper "Facilitating the problems that lie within the solutions using Conversational AI: A Case Study of Post-2021 Afghanistan" is accepted by DG.O 2023, Gdansk, Poland. 

☞ Apr`23:  Our paper "In Solidarity with Ukraine through Conversational AI via Facebook Ads: A Case Study of Online Discussion in 15 Countries" is accepted by DG.O 2023, Gdansk, Poland. 

☞ Apr`23:  Our paper "Crowd-Selected “Quality Paper”: Selecting a Quality Paper based on Conference Attendees’s Decision using Conversational AI Platform" is accepted by GDN 2023, Tokyo, Japan.

      ☞ Apr`23:  Our The 3rd International Workshop on Democracy and AI proposal has been accepted at PRICAI2023, Jakarta, Indonesia. Looking forward to discussing new emerging technologies that improve democratic inclusion!

☞ Apr`23:  Our paper "Facilitating Discussion Element-specific Problem-solving Conversations using Conversational Agent: Case of IBIS" is accepted by GDN 2023,  Tokyo, Japan.

      ☞ Mar`23:  Attended JST AIP Challenge 2022 Debrief Conference  and give a talk and poster presentation on my AIP project “Exploratory data analysis of Russian and Ukrainian opinions on Russian Invasion of Ukraine using Agent Technology", Chiba, Japan.

☞ Mar`23:  Our paper "A Large-scale Labeled English Text Datasets for Machine Learning: Case of Issue-based Information System" is accepted by JSAI 2023,  Kumamoto, Japan.

☞ Mar`23:  Our paper "Talent-Spotting in Online Deliberative Crowdsourcing Initiative: Case of Afghanistan’s first ever Internet-based Idea Competition on Solid Waste Management" is accepted by JSAI 2023,  Kumamoto, Japan.

  ☞ Feb`23: Invited to serve as Program Vice Co-Chair at the  The 18th  International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2023), Kitakyushu, Japan.

    ☞ Feb`23: I just secured my 1st Kakenhi. My proposal has been awarded for "Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists" by JSPS. It is going to be an exciting four years (2023-2027) coming ahead.

       ☞ Jan`23: Invited to serve as program committee at the  2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023), Macao, S.A.R

       ☞ Jan`23: Invited to serve as Local Arrangement Chair at the  The 7th International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA2023), Kyoto, Japan.

2022

      ☞ Dec`22: I was invited to talk about "Development and Application of System to Improve Online Discussions" at the   International Conference On Intelligent Computing And Next Generation Networks (ICNGN2022), China

☞ Dec'22: Attended “Collective Intelligence Symposium 10" held at Social Informatics Department, Kyoto.

☞ Nov'22: Attended “Towards Human Augmentation and Trustworthy AI with Ethical Design" Seminar held at JST Tokyo Headquarters, Tokyo.

☞ [November 2022] I was invited to talk about "The impact of AI-based civic platform on facilitating crowd intelligence for social good" at the First International Workshop on Democracy and AI 

☞ [October 2022] Attended JST Science Agora 2022 and give a talk on the "Role of AI technology on facilitating collective intelligence for smart city".

☞ [June 2022] Our tutorial proposal "Agent-based Discussion Platforms: Foundations, Development, and Social Applications" has been accepted at PRIMA, 2022.

☞ [June 2022] Our AI video “HyperDemocracy : Large-scale Consensus Support Platform based on Social Multiagent Systems”is accepted and nominated for the most beneficial video for society award at IJCIA/ECAI , 2022.

☞ [June 2022] My proposal “Exploratory data analysis of Russian and Ukrainian opinions on Russian Invasion of Ukraine using Agent Technology" is accepted at JST AIP Challenge Program, 2022.

☞ [May 2022] Attended “Trusted AI”: Young researchers’ Workshop 2022 held at JST Tokyo Headquarters, Tokyo.

☞ [Apr 2022] Our paper "How did discourse shift among Afghan citizens during the fall of the republic: Early insights using conversational AI platform" is accepted by DGO 2022.

☞ [Apr 2022] Our case study "D-Agree - An AI-based solution to support participatory urban planning" is being featured in the Regional Commissions report on the progress on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda (2019-2022) by United Nations.

☞ [Apr 2022] In April 2022, I joined the Department of Social Informatics at the Kyoto University. Feel free to visit Kyoto  and contact me.

☞ [Mar 2022] Our case study "D-Agree - An AI-based solution to support participatory urban planning" is published by 2nd Regional Partners Forum (@Quito+5) which jointly convened by ESCAP, UN-Habitat and the Penang Platform for Sustainable Urbanization. [Link]

☞ [Mar 2022] Turned in my Ph.D. life and graduated from Department of Computer Science at the Nagoya Institute of Technology!

☞ [Feb 2022] I just defended my dissertation successfully at the Nagoya Institute of Technology!

☞ [Feb 2022] Our paper "Evaluating Rank-Coherence among AI-enabled Ranking, Expert Rating and Crowd Voting for Selecting Winners in Incentivized Large-scale Idea Contest for Creative Works" is accepted by JSAI 2022.

☞ [Feb 2022] I did an interview about AI for Social Good in Afghanistan on NHK World!