// khyang-lab.org

MI & ME Unit

Media Intelligence & Media Engineering Unit

khyang-lab:~$ initializing mi-me-unit...
> loading: social_science.mod
> loading: artificial_intelligence.mod
> loading: mascots (mimiku, memeron).mod
khyang-lab:~$ ready.
khyang-lab:~$ whoami
> where social science meets the command line_

Our multidisciplinary research team is committed to understanding the complex nature of social dynamics and human behavior. We create synergy between state-of-the-art computational methods and well-established social science theories.

$  tail -f news.log
2026-06 · ICA 2026 — Cape Town presentation scheduled 2026-04 · MI & ME Unit website launched 2026-03 · Memeron caught napping on the keyboard — again 2026-01 · CHI EA 2026 paper accepted — Barcelona, here we come! 2023-04 · KAKENHI Wakate grant renewed (2023-2026) 2026-06 · ICA 2026 — Cape Town presentation scheduled 2026-04 · MI & ME Unit website launched 2026-03 · Memeron caught napping on the keyboard — again 2026-01 · CHI EA 2026 paper accepted — Barcelona, here we come! 2023-04 · KAKENHI Wakate grant renewed (2023-2026)
JOUR New Media & Society · 2023 doi↗

Introducing an 'Invisible Enemy': A Case Study of Knowledge Construction Regarding Microplastics in Japanese Wikipedia

microplastics Wikipedia knowledge-construction Japan case-study edit-history-mining
JOUR Journal of Computational Social Science · 2024 doi↗

Polarized Collaboration Benefits Knowledge Production: Empirical Analyses of the Mediating Effect of Co-production Pattern in Wikipedia Articles on Climate Change

Wikipedia climate-change polarization knowledge-production network-analysis mediation-analysis
JOUR Journalism Studies · 2025 doi↗

Heat in Real Time, Climate in Retrospect: Mapping Seasonal Gap in Japanese Heatwave Journalism

heatwave journalism climate-communication Japan content-analysis time-series-analysis
CONF CHI EA 2026 · 2026 doi↗

The Multilingual Safety Divide: Cross-Lingual Disparities in LLM Climate Misinformation Detection

LLM AI-safety multilingual-fairness climate-misinformation cross-lingual behavioral-evaluation mechanistic-interpretability logit-lens chain-of-translation
$ cat quote.txt
> Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works. Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: Nothing works, and nobody knows why.
> — Anonymous