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(William)
Visiting Assistant Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
New Book - Agent AI for Finance
From Financial Argument Mining to Agent-Based Modeling Open AccessRecent Professional Activities
2026
Chair of ACL SIG-FinTech SiteProgram Committee Co-Chair, NTCIR-19 NTCIR
Organizer of FinArg-3, NTCIR-19 Site
Organizer of RegCom, NTCIR-19 Site
Organizer of Live Commentary Planning and Generation, GenChal @ INLG-2026 Site
Organizer of Agentic AI, Scenario Planning & Human–Agent Collaboration, Special Session @ HCII Site
Organizer of Workshop on Information Retrieval for Accountability and Integrity, ECIR Site
Organizer of Workshop on Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift, ICLR Site
2025
Organizer of FinNLP, EMNLP-2025 SiteOrganizer of AgentScen, IJCAI-2025 Site
Recent Talks
From Shared Tasks to Benchmark Datasets: Lessons from NTCIR's 26-Year Journey, LREC Tutorial, 2026 SiteWhen Language No Longer Speaks Directly to Humans: Who Is Speaking to Whom? Power Shifts in LLM-Mediated Communication, UKP Lab, 2026
From Data to Decision: Generating Insights that Drive Better Choices, Keynote - Taiwan AI Cup, 2026
Human–Agent Teaming for Higher-Order Thinking Augmentation, IJCNLP-AACL Tutorial, 2025 Site
From Disinformation to Broken Promises: The Challenge of Truth Verification, ELLIS, 2025 Site