The Allies Behind the Lab

An international team of researchers, students, and collaborators from 12+ countries, united by one question: how do humans and agents thrive together?

Principal Investigator

Leading the Mission

Dr. Chung-Chi Chen

Dr. Chung-Chi Chen

Assistant Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

His recent research investigates how large language models and agents mediate communication, reshape human decision-making, and influence society — with particular interests in LLM-mediated communication, the social impact of agents, human-agent collaboration in high-stakes settings, and the detection and verification of forward-looking exaggeration and misinformation.

His earlier work centered on NLP and information retrieval for high-stakes domains including finance, law, and social science: forward-looking argument mining, financial text analysis, legal technology, expert decision support, and evaluation frameworks for language technologies used in consequential contexts.

He is the founder of ACL SIG-FinTech, organizer of the FinNLP/FinWeb workshop series (IJCAI, WWW, EMNLP, IJCNLP-AACL), leader of the FinNum and FinArg shared task series at NTCIR, and recipient of the SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award (Excellence in Community Engagement).

Education: Ph.D., NLP Lab, CSIE, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · M.S., Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan · B.S., Economics (minor CSIE), National Taipei University, Taiwan

Full profile & publications at nlpfin.github.io
Group Members

Current Members

YC

Yi-Chen Chiang

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Knowledge Editing & Downstream Utility
VD

Vibhan Dutta

Jadavpur University, India

Cross-Temporal Decision-Making
SG

Somdev Ganguli

Jadavpur University, India

Diverse Viewpoint Generation
YH

Yu-Shiang Huang

National Taiwan University, Taiwan · NII Visiting Researcher

Adversarial Audit Simulation
WL

Wen-Xin Lin

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Election Polling Simulation
JL

Ji-Yuan Lo

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Decision Simulation
LM

Lucy M’bwana

DMI – St. John the Baptist University, Malawi

ESG Disclosure Analysis
CY

Chen-Jui Yu

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Adaptive Teamwork & Planning
BZ

Bai-Li Zheng

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

ESG Commitment Tracing
Network

Ongoing Collaborations

Research partnerships around the world.

HA

Dr. Hiba Arnaout

UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Clinical Conversation Simulation
MD

Prof. Min-Yuh Day

National Taipei University, Taiwan

Chinese ESG Factor Analysis
IG

Prof. Iryna Gurevych

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Quality Assurance in Scholarly Communication
YH

Prof. Yu-Yin Hsu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Evidence-Based Decision-Making
YH

You-Mei Huang

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Personalized Model Editing
NK

Prof. Noriko Kando

NII, Japan

Eye-tracking for Decision Reasoning
JK

Dr. Juyeon Kang

3DS Outscale, France

Cross-Lingual ESG Scoring
AK

Prof. Atsushi Keyaki

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Multilingual ESG Compliance
HL

Huy M. Le

MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates

Clinical Conversation Simulation
YL

Prof. Yongjae Lee

UNIST, South Korea

Personalized Financial Education
GM

Gaku Morio

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

AI for Social Science Research
YS

Prof. Yohei Seki

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Cross-Lingual ESG Scoring
MW

Prof. Ming-Hung Wang

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Presidential Debate Analysis
DW

Prof. Dittaya Wanvarie

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Multilingual ESG Compliance
SW

Prof. Shih-Hung Wu

Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

Cross-Temporal Argument Verification
AY

Prof. An-Zi Yen

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

AI Sports Coaching
Alumni

Former Members & Collaborators

Published at leading venues and recognized with paper, thesis, and scholarship awards.

YC

Yu-Yu Chang

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (AIST Intern)

Linguistic Cues in Political Debates: Lexical Choices and Evaluative Framing in GPT-Generated Commentary (Findings of AACL-IJCNLP 2026)

HH

Huan-Wen Ho

National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (AIST Intern)

Ideological Steering
YC

Yi-Ting Chiu

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Faithful to the Frame: Source-Framing Propagation in LLM-Agent Decision Workflows (EMNLP'26)

SA

Prof. Sophia Ananiadou

Manchester University, UK

Multi-Agent Interactions
CL

Prof. Chenghua Lin

University of Manchester, UK

Insight Generation
SN

Prof. Sudip Kumar Naskar

Jadavpur University, India

Crowd Reaction Assessment
YH

Prof. Yufang Hou

IT:U, Austria

Turning Evidence into Actionable Insights
FI

Prof. Filip Ilievski

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Assess Text Creativity
AJ

Prof. Alípio M. Jorge

INESC TEC, Portugal

Diagnostic Simulation
TL

Tzu-En Liu

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Financial Compliance
HL

Hsiu-Hung Lee

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

RAG-Enhanced Evidence Recommendation in Financial Legal Resolutions (WWW'25)

MS

Ming-Xuan Shi

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

General Numeral Attachment Dataset for Earnings Calls (IJCNLP-AACL'23)

AL

Ai-Ni Li

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Financial Statement Adequacy
HY

Hsiu-Hsuan Yeh

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Text-Based Economic Indicator Construction (CIKM'24)

YJ

Yuchen Eleanor Jiang

ETH Zürich, Switzerland · AIST Intern

Financial Q&A

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