With PRICAI 2025 Program Chair Prof.  Yi Mei  and workshop chair Prof. Qi Chen at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

[Nov 21th, 2025]

With President of NRC Mitch Davies at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) friends’ reception, Canadian Embassy Tokyo.NRC is the Government of Canada’s leading research organization

[Oct 7th, 2025]

at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) friends’ reception, Canadian Embassy Tokyo.

[Oct 7th, 2025]

With my colleague at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) friends’ reception, Canadian Embassy Tokyo.NRC is the Government of Canada’s leading research organization

[Oct 7th, 2025]

My colleague Dr. Sofia Sahab spoke and served as a panelist at the “Zurich–Japan Innovation Dialogue: Exploring the Societal Impact of AI,” organized by the University of Zurich with support from the Consulate of Switzerland, Swissnex in Japan, and the Swiss Pavilion.

[Oct 2nd, 2025]

My colleague Dr. Sofia Sahab at the Swiss Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka, participated at the “Zurich–Japan Innovation Dialogue: Exploring the Societal Impact of AI,” organized by the University of Zurich with support from the Consulate of Switzerland, Swissnex in Japan, and the Swiss Pavilion.

[Oct 2nd, 2025]

My talk at  Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal

[Tuesday, August 19th, 2025]

Our visit to Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, with Prof. Takayuki Ito and Dr. Shun Okuhara.

[Tuesday, August 19th, 2025]

During our visit to MILA in Montreal, we had the privilege of meeting Professor Yoshua Bengio — a pioneer in artificial neural networks and deep learning, and the world’s most-cited computer scientist as well as the most-cited living scientist across all fields.

[Tuesday, August 19th, 2025]

Group Photo of IJCAI DemocrAI 2025 in Montreal Canada.

[Tuesday, August 18th, 2025]

Our paper got Best exteded Asbstract award at IJCAI DemocrAI 2025 in Montreal Canada.

[Tuesday, August 18th, 2025]

 Presenting our paper during ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 (CI 2025) in San Diego, California, US.

[Tuesday, August 5th, 2025]

At the Social Informatics Special Lecture by Prof. Shichao Liu, Carleton University (Canada)

[Monday, June 30th, 2025]

Group Photo — CREST Trusted AI Systems: FY2025 First-Half Area Workshop

[June 4th, 2025]

 Presenting our paper during 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (Dgo 2025) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre City, Brazil

[June 9-12, 2025]

 Presenting our paper during 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (Dgo 2025) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre City, Brazil

[June 9-12, 2025]

Group Photo: 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (Dgo 2025) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre City, Brazil

[June 9-12, 2025]

At the Social Informatics Special Lecture by Patricia Debergue, Director of the Aging in Place Challenge Program, National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

[Tuesday, June 24th, 2025]

At the Social Informatics Special Lecture by Prof. Uwe Serdült, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

[Monday, June 2nd, 2025]

At the Social Informatics Special Lecture by Dr. David Duenas-Cid, Kozminski University (Poland)

[Friday, May 23, 2025]

With Wisdom Tettey, 17th President of Carleton University

Ottawa, Canada

[March 26, 2025]

At the Social Informatics Special Lecture by Dr. Peter Mantello,

Professor of Media, Ethics, and Technology at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

[Thursday, January 30, 2025]

With Participants of the CREST Research Area 2024 Conference

The QUBE Hotel Chiba, Chiba, Japan

[November 26, 2024]

With participants of PRICAI–DemocrAI 2024 in Kyoto, Japan

[November 19, 2024]

At the CN Tower with Canada–Japan Symposium participants, Toronto, Canada

[October 24, 2024]

At Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada,   [2024/10/25] 

At Toronto Grace Health Center, Canada   [2024/10/24] 

At Informatik 2024 conference at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany,   [2024/09/24-26] 

At DDAI 2024 workshop, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.  [2024/09/20] 

At social informatics special lecture by Dr. Loni Hagen, University of South Florida at Kyoto University. [Friday, August 23rd, 2024] 

Our paper presented during IEEE/ACIS BCD 2024 in Kitakyushu Japan, won the best paper award.  [2024/07/17] 

With Ito Lab faculty and members, Kyoto University. 2024/04/19 

With mayor of Taipe, Chiang Wan-an during DGO 2024 conference.

At DGO 2024 conference.

At DGO 2024 conference, during poster presentation.

At OE Global 2023 conference, Edmonton, Canada

At European Solidarity Centre, 2023

At European Solidarity Centre, 2023

At DGO 2023, Poland

With Prof. Bo An of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and ITO team, Kyoto University. 2023/10/13

With DemocAI-IJCAI2023 participants, Macau. 2023/08/20

With Prof. Miao Chunyan of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and her Team during their visit to Ito Lab faculty, Kyoto University. 2023/6/29

With MWAIS 2023 conference participants, Saint Paul, MN, May 20, 2023

With AIP Network Lab Director Dr. Emura & AIP2022 Participants, AIP Challenge debrief Conference, X-Wave Makuhari, Chiba, March 7, 2023

With Dr. Cristina Vanberghen & Ito Lab faculty, Kyoto University. 2023/2/9

With Ito Lab faculty and graduate students Kyoto. 2023/1/17

With participants at "Collective Intelligence Symposium 10" held at Social Informatics Department, Kyoto. 2022/12/16

With participants at the 1st International Workshop on Democracy and AI (virtual-zoom) — 2022/11/16

With KICSS-22 conference participants, November 25, 2022 (Kyoto, Japan)

With Ito Lab faculty and the University of Mataram Rector’s team at Kyoto University — November 3, 2022

With members of Ito Lab, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University (Japan) — September 26, 2022

With JST staff, CREST area advisors, and Trusted AI workshop participants — Zoom, 2022/05/24

Flyer for Afghanistan’s first-ever online Solid Waste Discussion League, designed and released by Kabul Municipality

Kabul Mayor Daud Sultanzoy speaks with the organizers of Afghanistan’s first internet-based Solid Waste Discussion League (on screen, left: Dr. Jawad Haqbeen and Dr. Shun Okuhara) during the league’s 2021 inauguration

With Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) Ito Lab students — Ariana Restaurant 2017/06/12, Japan

With Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) graduate students — 2016/04/28

With Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) graduate students — 2015/11/11

With Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) graduate students — 2015/11/11

With Afghan graduate students — Embassy of Afghanistan, Japan, 2013/09/10

Receiving a certificate from the Afghan Ambassador — Embassy of Afghanistan, Japan, 2013/09/10

At Waseda University’s graduation ceremony (Japan, 2013/09/23

With Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (2013/09/12)

With Waseda graduate students, Sony (Japan), 2012/12/13

At the Symposium on Afghanistan, Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Japan — 2012/06/06

With Afghan graduate students, Afghan officials, Japanese professors, and JICA–PEACE staff — Hiroshima, 2012/09/29

With Afghan graduate students at the Embassy of Afghanistan, Tokyo May 5, 2012