Professional Experience

Leadership roles, community service, and career history across academia and industry.

Leadership & Service

  • Founder — ACL Special Interest Group on Financial and Economic Natural Language Processing (SIG-FinTech)
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  • Chair (Elected, 2026–2028) — ACL Special Interest Group on Financial and Economic Natural Language Processing (SIG-FinTech)
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  • Program Committee Co-Chair — NTCIR-18
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  • Guest Editor — ACM TWEB Special Issue: Financial Technology on the Web
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  • Publicity / Social Media Chair — SIGIR-2023
  • Publicity Co-Chair — NTCIR-16
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  • Proceedings Chair — INLG-2024
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  • Proceedings Chair — INLG-2023
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  • Invited Participant — Dagstuhl Seminar 26461: Technology, Trust, Truth: The Role of Responsible AI in Combating Misinformation, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2026
  • Workshop Organizer — Japan NLP-2026:「未来言語処理」ワークショップ
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  • Theme Track Proposer — Japan NLP-2023: 金融・経済ドメインのための言語処理
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Workshop & Shared Task Organization

FinNLP — The Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing 10 editions IJCAI · EMNLP · COLING · LREC · AACL, 2019–2025
FinWeb — The Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web 3 editions The Web Conference (WWW), 2021–2023
FinArg — Fine-Grained Argument Understanding in Financial Analysis 3 tasks NTCIR, 2023–2026
  • FinArg-1 (2023): Argument-Based Sentiment Analysis & Identifying Attack and Support Argumentative Relations in Social Media Discussion Threads
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  • FinArg-2 (2025): Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments
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  • FinArg-3 (2026): Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements
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FinNum — Fine-Grained Numeral Understanding in Financial Tweets 3 tasks NTCIR, 2019–2022
Multilingual ESG & Promise Verification Shared Task Series 5 tasks FinNLP · SemEval · NTCIR, 2023–2026
  • Multi-Lingual ESG Issue Identification, 2023
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  • Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Type Identification, 2023
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  • Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Duration Inference, 2024
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  • PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification, SemEval-2025
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  • RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking, NTCIR-19 (2026)
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Other Workshops, Sessions & Shared Tasks
  • NumEval: Numeral-Aware Language Understanding and Generation, SemEval-2024
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  • The Workshop on Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift (CAO), ICLR-2026
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  • The Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), IJCAI, 2024 & 2025
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  • Workshop on Information Retrieval for Accountability and Integrity (IRAI), ECIR-2026
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  • Agentic AI, Scenario Planning & Human-Agent Collaboration, Special Session @ HCII 2026
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  • Advances in Financial AI: Innovations, Risk, and Responsibility in the Era of LLMs, CIKM-2025
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  • The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining, in conjunction with EMNLP-2023
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Program Committee & Reviewing

  • External Grant Reviewer
    Dutch Research Council (NWO), Open Competition ENW-M, 2026
  • Senior Area Chair / Program Committee
    ACL 2024 (Resources and Evaluation Track) & 2026 · EMNLP 2026 · ICAIF 2025
  • Area Chair
    ACL Rolling Review · ACL 2023– · EMNLP 2024– · LREC-COLING 2024– · COLM 2026– · NeurIPS 2026–
  • Journal Reviewer
    TACL · Information Processing & Management (IPM) · IEEE TKDE · ACM TOIS
  • Conference Reviewer
    ACL Rolling Review 2022– · ACL 2020– · AAAI 2020– · SIGIR 2021– · WWW 2022– · KDD 2022– · EMNLP 2018, 2020– · NeurIPS 2024– · WSDM 2022– · CIKM 2020– · NAACL 2021– · AACL 2020–
  • Workshop Reviewer
    The International Workshop on NLP for Social Media · Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP · Workshop on Argument Mining

Career History

Assistant Professor — National Institute of Informatics, Japan

04/2026 –

Researcher — Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

04/2022 – 03/2026

Visiting Researcher — Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal

12/2025 – 03/2026

Visiting Researcher — Hitotsubashi University, Japan

12/2025 – 03/2026

Visiting Assistant Professor — National Institute of Informatics, Japan

04/2025 – 03/2026

Postdoctoral Researcher — MOST Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare, Taiwan

02/2021 – 03/2022

Lecturer — Dept. of Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

02/2019 – 01/2021

Collaborative Researcher — Knowledge and Information Research Team, Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), Japan

07–08/2018

Intern — Digital Education Institute, Institute for Information Industry

07–08/2017

Intern — Risk Management, KGI Securities

08/2015 – 04/2016

Intern — Treasury — Bond Investment Desk, Cathay United Bank

07–08/2015

Intern — IT, Eyeball Capital

02–06/2014

Intern — Sales, Industrial Bank of Taiwan Securities

07–08/2013

Certificates

  • Senior Securities Specialist
  • Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Professionals
  • Futures Specialist