Service and Citizenship

Service to academic community

Recent roles at conferences and workshops

• 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 150 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:

• English for Specific Purposes
• International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
• International TESOL and 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 (Associate editor)
• International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (Member of the Editorial Reviewer Board)
• 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
• Electronics
• IEEE Access
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
• Informatics
• Information
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Mathematics
• PLoS ONE (Academic editor)
• Sensors
• Stats
• Sustainability

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

• Annals of Mathematics and Physics
• Aquaculture and Fishery Sciences

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)