# Chung-Chi Chen (William)

> Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan.
> Principal Investigator of the Human-Agent Ally Lab (HAA Lab): https://haalab.github.io/
> Founder and Chair of ACL SIG-FinTech. Contact: chen@nii.ac.jp

Key facts:
- Research: human-agent collaboration, LLM-mediated communication, social impact of agents,
  forward-looking statement verification, NLP and IR for finance and law.
- Awards: SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award (Excellence in Community Engagement, 2023);
  ANLP Outstanding Paper Award (2025, top 2%); multiple FinTech/LegalTech competition wins.
- Book: "Agent AI for Finance: From Financial Argument Mining to Agent-Based Modeling"
  (Springer, Open Access).
- Community: founder of ACL SIG-FinTech; organizer of FinNLP workshop series (10+ editions),
  FinNum/FinArg/RegCom shared tasks at NTCIR, NumEval and PromiseEval at SemEval;
  Program Committee Co-Chair of NTCIR-18/19; tutorials at LREC, AACL, SIGIR, ECAI, EMNLP.
- Education: Ph.D. CSIE National Taiwan University; M.S. Quantitative Finance NTHU;
  B.S. Economics National Taipei University.
- The HAA Lab is recruiting PhD students, interns, and postdocs: https://haalab.github.io/contact.html

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