Service and Citizenship

This page lists my activities which would be classified as service by my current university and citizenship by others. I have categorized my activities into three broad groups:

service to the academic community, e.g. reviewing papers, helping out with conferences and editing;
service to the University of Aizu, which includes university-wide committee work, center-specific activities and directing the TNT Lab; and
service to the wider community, e.g. providing open-access resources and tools for the online community.

Service to academic community

Recent roles at conferences, workshops and competitions

The Second International Conference on IoT-AI (IoT-AI 2025), technical program committee member and reviewer for proceedings
International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2025) , reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, scientific committee member
ETLTC 2025, operations committee member
ETLTC-ICETM 2025, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, technical program committee member
International Conference on Information Technology and Education Technology (ITET) 2025 , reviewer for proceedings, technical committee member
10th International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing (ICMSSP 2025) , reviewer for proceedings, technical committee member
6th International Conference on Advances in Education and Information Technology (AEIT 2025), reviewer for proceedings, member of Technical Program Committee
HKAECT 2025, member of International Advisory Board
iNVENTX - Invention Exhibition 2024 - Multimedia University , judge
Multi-disciplinary International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI 2024), member of program committee, reviewer for proceedings
International Conference on Environment and Smart Education (ICEnSE) 2024, reviewer for proceedings, scientific committee member
International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2024) , reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, scientific committee member
European Advanced Educational Technology Conference (EAET) 2024 , reviewer for proceedings, technical committee member
International Conference on Information Technology and Education Technology (ITET) 2024 , reviewer for proceedings, technical committee member
IARIA Congress 2024, technical program committee member and reviewer for proceedings
HKAECT 2024, member of International Advisory Board
AIIM 2024, 2nd International Conference on Topics and Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Information Management 2024, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, technical program committee member
ETLTC-ICETM 2024, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, technical program committee member
IARIA Congress 2023, technical program committee member and reviewer for proceedings
Special session on Information Management in Human-Centric Systems at IIAI AAI 2023, co-organiser
ETLTC-ICETM 2023, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, technical program committee member
HKAECT 2023, member of International Advisory Board
International Conference on Information Technology and Education Technology (ITET) 2023 , reviewer for proceedings, technical committee member
International Conference on Applied Education, Technology and Innovation (AETI) 2022, committee member and reviewer for abstracts and proceedings
IARIA Congress 2022, technical program committee member and reviewer for proceedings
ETLTC 2022, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings
EuroCALL 2021, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings
ETLTC 2021, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, committee member
Workshop on Teaching Logic, ICCE, 2020. co-chair, reviewer
SLTC 2020, reviewer for proceedings
ETLTC 2020, reviewer for abstracts and proceedings, committee member
EuroCALL 2020, reviewer for proceedings
JALT PanSIG 2019, reviewer and editor for proceedings
EuroCALL 2019, reviewer for proceedings
JALT PanSIG 2018, reviewer and editor for proceedings
2nd International Symposium on Applied Phonetics 2018, committee member
JALT PanSIG 2017, reviewer for proceedings

Recent roles related to other academic publications

PLoS ONE, academic editor of PLoS ONE an open-access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning, associate editor of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, guest editor of special issue titled "Natural Language Processing and Event Extraction for Big Data" [ flyer ]
Forum for Linguistic Studies, invited member of the Reviewer Board (2023 to date)
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, invited member of the Reviewer Board (2022 to date)
Springer nature, reviewer
IGI publications, reviewer
PanSIG Journal, associate editor (2018 and 2019)

Recent reviewing work

Web of Science peer review record shows that I have completed over 190 verified reviews of journal articles, and am listed in the 99th percentile for reviews completed overall and in the previous 12 months with an average review length far exceeding the mean review length. I was one of the two winners of the Languages 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

I am an ad hoc or regular reviewer for the following journals:

Language learning

Educational technology

Natural language processing and machine learning

Language and language-related

Forum for Linguistic Studies (Member of the Reviewer Board)
Humanities
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
Languages
Publications
Social Psychology

Service to the University of Aizu

University service

I have served on various standing, special and other committees. I have also been a member of a number of working groups. I served as a student mentor for two years and am the director of the Texts and Tools lab.

Reviewer for graduation thesis posters since 2017.

Reviewer for graduate school presentations since 2022.

Center service

2024 - now Member of ICST committee
2018 - now Co-ordinator of Thesis writing and presentations
2022 - 2023 Member of public relations committee
2022 - 2023 Member of library committee
2020 - 2021? Member of ICST committee
2017 - 2019 Member of CLR website working group
2017 - 2019 Member of curriculum working group
2017 - 2019 Co-opt member of CLR curriculum working group for LMS

Lab service

2017 - now Director of the Texts and Tools (TNT) Lab
2023 - 2025 Supervise two students and mentor two students
2022 - 2024 Supervise two students, co-supervise one student and mentor two students
2020 - 2022 Supervised four students
2018 - 2020 Supervised two students
2017 - 2018 Supervised one student

Service to the wider community

Open-access online software

I believe in open access and open learning, and therefore all the pedagogic tools that I create are open to all users.

TODO: add hyperlinks

Error detector for computer science (python, flask)
Error detector for computer science (javascript)
Pronunciation scaffolder (elm)
Language feature detector (python, flask)
Language feature visualizer (python, django)
Tense identifier v1 (golang, heroku)
Tense identifier v2 (python, heroku)
Tense and meaning identifier v3 (python, heroku)
Question generator v1 (python, heroku)
Question generator v2 (python, AWS)
Rhetorical move vizualizer for scientific research abstracts (coffeescript, react)
Argument analyzer (javascript)

Open-access online courses

I believe in open access and open learning, and therefore all the online course that I create are open to all users. The assessment and assignment submission systems and some materials for credit-bearing core and elective courses are housed on the password-protected university LMS for enrolled students only. However, the open-access course is designed to be standalone, and so non-UoA users are not disadvantaged.

TODO: add hyperlinks

Technology-enhanced language learning (2023 graduate elective)
Information ethics (2023 core)
Thesis writing (2022 core)
Expert systems with Python (2023 elective)
Authorship analysis using Python (2022 - 2023 elective)

Patterns and language (2016 - 2022 elective)
Logic and language (2016 - 2021 elective)
Visualizing time and tense (2021 elective)
Presenting research posters (2018 - 2019 elective)
Thesis writing (legacy) (2018 - 2021 core)

Interview preparation
Fields of computer science
Error-free research writing
Awareness
Professionalism (lab)
Research (lab)
Python for natural language processing (lab)

Productivity and positivity (forthcoming lab)
Reverse engineering, Product tear-down and Prototyping (forthcoming elective)
Ciphers, codes and cryptography (forthcoming elective)
Coding interviews: Essential algorithms and data structures (forthcoming)
Practical machine learning (forthcoming elective)
Algorithmic grammar (forthcoming elective)