Report on the 4th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2024
“Advancing Mental Health Monitoring: A Deep Learning Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition”
2025.Feb.28
On February 20, 2025, the fourth BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held online. Dr. Meishu Song (Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo) gave a presentation on the theme “Advancing Mental Health Monitoring: A Deep Learning Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition.”
Report on the 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2024
“Global AI Dialogues: Exploring public perceptions on genAI across Japan, Nigeria, and Germany”
2025.Feb.28
On October 8, 2024, the third BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held in a hybrid format. Chiara Ullstein and Michel Hohendanner from Technical University of Munich gave a presentation on the theme “Global AI Dialogues: Exploring public perceptions on genAI across Japan, Nigeria, and Germany.”
Report on the 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2024
“Challenges Facing Racial and Cultural Minorities in Japan and Creating Opportunities for Intercultural Dialogue”
2025.Feb.28
On May 28, 2024, the first BAIRAL research meeting for 2024 was held online. Naomi Iwazawa (Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo) gave a presentation on the theme “Challenges Facing Racial and Cultural Minorities in Japan and Creating Opportunities for Intercultural Dialogue.”
Report on the 33rd B’AI Book Club (※Research Presentation)
Discussion on “Selfhood in the era of AI”
2025.Feb.19
On November 26, 2024, the 33rd session of the “B'AI Book Club” was held in a hybrid format. Dr. Sunjin Oh and Priya Mu led discussion on “Selfhood in the era of AI.”
Report on the 32nd B’AI Book Club (※Research Presentation)
“Location-Sharing and Privacy Attitudes Among Youth: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.K.”
2025.Feb.04
On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, the 32nd B’AI Book Club of the B’AI Global Forum was held in a hybrid format. In this session, Jingyu Zhang and Risa Hiramatsu from Professor Yuiko Fujita’s Lab at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, delivered a presentation titled "Location-Sharing and Privacy Attitudes Among Youth: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.K."
Report on the 3rd MeDi-B’AI Symposium
“How Is the Media Landscape Changing? — AI and the Freelance Act”
2025.Jan.24
On November 16, 2024, the third MeDi-B’AI Symposium, titled “How is the Media Landscape Changing? – AI and the Freelance Act,” was held at the Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building on the Hongo Campus.
Report on Lecture by Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen
“From “Data Made Flesh in the Mazes” to “A Vessel that Accepts Nature as It Is”: Media Environments as Infrastructures and Experimental Assemblages to Imagine and Re-imagining AI”
2024.Dec.19
On March 19, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen entitled “From “Data Made Flesh in the Mazes” to “A Vessel that Accepts Nature as It Is”: Media Environments as Infrastructures and Experimental Assemblages to Imagine and Re-imagining AI.”
Report on the 29th B’AI Book Club
Wayne Holmes and Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta eds. (2023) The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Practices, Challenges, and Debates
2024.Dec.19
The 29th session of the B’AI Book Club took place on May 28, 2024. B’AI Research Assistant Priya Mu introduced the book "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Practices, Challenges, and Debates" (2023) edited by Wayne Holmes and Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta.
Report on B’AI Women in Tech @ SoftBank –Headquarters Tour & Networking Event
2024.Sep.18
On June 3, 2024, the B’AI Global Forum, in collaboration with SoftBank and Rikopeer, hosted the "B’AI Women in Tech @ SoftBank –Headquarters Tour & Networking Event" at SoftBank's Takeshiba Headquarters.