GenAI Safety
Cross-lingual LLM safety evaluation and alignment — understanding how safety mechanisms fail across languages.
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Research
Making sense, building together, teaching machines.
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> where social science meets the command line_
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Building Together
How do humans co-create knowledge in digital spaces?
We study the emergent dynamics of collaborative platforms — from Wikipedia edit wars to open-source communities — to understand how collective intelligence forms, evolves, and sometimes breaks down.
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Making Sense
How does information shape public understanding of complex issues?
From climate misinformation to heatwave journalism, we investigate how media frames public perception of scientific and social issues — and how computational tools can help us track these dynamics at scale.
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Teaching Machines
How can AI and humans learn from each other?
We explore the frontier where social science meets machine learning — from cross-lingual LLM safety to using AI as research instruments. The goal: AI that understands social context, not just patterns.
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Social Science for AI
AI for pets/cats, LLM bias evaluation, and social simulation — bridging social inquiry and machine intelligence.
Climate & Environmental Communication
Heatwave journalism, risk perception, and attention fatigue — how media shapes public understanding of environmental crises.
Online Knowledge Production
Wikipedia dynamics, collaborative platforms, and the formation of collective opinions in digital spaces.
Narrative Economics & Media Analysis
Social media and market data pipelines — tracing how narratives propagate and shape economic behavior.
Popular Culture & ACG
Anime, comics, and games cultural analysis — understanding media consumption and fan communities at scale.
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22 publications
From Inner Diversity to Outer Crowds: How Instructions Reshape Error Structure Before Aggregation
The Multilingual Safety Divide: Cross-Lingual Disparities in LLM Climate Misinformation Detection
Temporal Diversity as a Design Principle for Within-Person Collective Intelligence
An Ensemble Method Utilising Multiple Thinking Styles That Boosts the Wisdom-of-Inner-Crowd Effect
Development and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Divergent Association Task
Bridging Conformity and Deviance: A Minimal Model of Popularity, Identity, and Collective Intelligence
Heat in Real Time, Climate in Retrospect: Mapping Seasonal Gap in Japanese Heatwave Journalism
Impact of the Quality and Diversity of Reference Products on Creative Activities in Online Communities
Polarized Collaboration Benefits Knowledge Production: Empirical Analyses of the Mediating Effect of Co-production Pattern in Wikipedia Articles on Climate Change
Unsupervised Learning Methods Reveal the Complexity of User Segregation in Political Sphere in Online Communities
Emotion Detection on Fraudulent Accounts Using BERT and Kleinberg's Burst Algorithms in Indonesian Text
Constitutive and Material: An Empirical Analysis of the Two Dimensions of the Communication on Microplastics in Japanese Journals
Introducing an 'Invisible Enemy': A Case Study of Knowledge Construction Regarding Microplastics in Japanese Wikipedia
The Variant of Efforts Avoiding Strain: Successful Correction of a Scientific Discourse Related to COVID-19
Crowdsourcing Knowledge Production of COVID-19 Information on Japanese Wikipedia in the Face of Uncertainty: Empirical Analysis
An Ensemble Method Utilising Multiple Thinking Styles That Boosts the Wisdom of the Inner Crowd Effect
On an Effective and Efficient Method for Exploiting the Wisdom of the Inner Crowd
Social Influence Makes Outlier Opinions in Online Reviews Offer More Helpful Information
Media Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Issues
More Knowledge Causes a Focused Attention Deployment Pattern Leading to Lower Creative Performances
Cooperation Patterns of Members in Networks During Co-creation
Interplay of Network Structure and Neighbour Performance in User Innovation
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