Course list
Authorship analysis
Expert systems with Python
Fields of computer science
Information ethics
Logic and language
Patterns and language
Python for NLP
Technology-enhanced language learning
Visualizing time and tense
Error-free research writing
Reader-friendly writing
Legacy thesis writing
Thesis writing
Writing scientific research abstracts
Awareness and defense
Blitz speaking
Interview practice
Professional development
Awareness and defense
Blitz speaking
Interview practice
Professional development 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- Discover Education
- English for Specific Purposes
- International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
- International TESOL & Technology Journal
- Journal of English for Academic Purposes
- Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society
- Language Teaching
- Language Learning and Technology
- RELC Journal
- Second Language Research and Practice
- Writing and Pedagogy
- CALL-EJ (Computer-Assisted Language Learning - Electronic Journal)
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning (Member of the Editorial Reviewer Board)
- International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (Member of the Editorial Reviewer Board)
- International Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology
- International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (Member of the Editorial Reviewer Board)
- Journal of Educational Computing Research
- Advances in Computational Intelligence
- Antibiotics
- Applied Sciences
- Big Data and Cognitive Computing (Member of the Reviewer Board)
- Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computers
- Diagnostics
- Discover Artificial Intelligence
- Electronic Research Archive
- Electronics
- IEEE Access
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
- Informatics
- Information
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
- International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Mathematics
- PLoS ONE
- Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
- Sensors
- Stats
- Sustainability
- 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)