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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.
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Service to academic community

Recent roles at conferences, workshops and competitions

  • 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 170 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 of approximately 700 words, twice the mean review length.

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 Miscellaneous

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.

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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.

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