13:00 - 18:00
Location: Foyer 19/F LAU Reception Area
Registration and Help Desk
 
13:30 - 14:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Edmund Cheng, Raymond Duch
Welcome remarks by Ray Cheung (Associate Provost and Chair Professor, CityUHK)
14:00 - 15:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Raymond Duch
Title: SocioVerse 2.0 — A Longitudinal Dynamic Social Simulation Framework

Zhongyu Wei is a professor in the School of Data Science at Fudan University, Director of the Data Intelligence and Social Computing (Fudan DISC) Lab, and a full-time mentor at the Shanghai Innovation Institute. He earned his Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining the University of Texas at Dallas as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on generative agents and social simulation. He has published over 100 papers, with more than 11,000 citations according to Google Scholar, and proposed the social world model SocioVerse and the social media simulator HiSim. He has served multiple times as a Senior Area Chair for leading natural language processing conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. His honors include recognition on the AI100 Young Pioneers list by MIT Technology Review China and DeepTech, and selection for the Youth Project of the Shanghai Eastern Talent Plan. He also leads a National First-Class Undergraduate Course recognized by China’s Ministry of Education.
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break - Refreshments provided
15:30 - 17:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Le Bao
Discussant/s:
David Broska
Na Liu - Information conditions govern the validity of AI-generated experimental data across inferential targets
Plamen Akaliyski - When AI Thinks about Culture: Comparing Language-Based and Empirical Measures of Individualism-Collectivism
Leo Yang - Scaling Reproducibility: An AI-Assisted Workflow for Large-Scale Replication and Reanalysis
Simon Maier - Replication and Specification Range Analysis with AI Agents
15:30 - 17:00
Location: Multi-Function Room 2 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Ji Hye Kim
Ali Farashah - AI and Organizational Justice: An Experimental Study of HR Processes
Raymond Duch - Building the Data a Spatial Model of Voting Needs
Ji Hye Kim - Social Perception of Everyday Discrimination: Human and LLM Judgments in Korean Vignettes
Elif Erisen - Beyond the Questionnaire: LLM-Driven Avatar Debriefing in Social VR Experiments as a Methodological Innovation for Social Science Research
15:30 - 17:00
Location: Multi-Function Room 1 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Songfa Zhong
Songfa Zhong - Understanding the Mechanism of Altruism in Large Language Models
Yuwen Zhou - Fairness Versus Efficiency in AI Advice: Evidence from Human and LLM Responses
Yiting Chen - Social Identity and Human-AI Task Allocation
Xiaoli Guo - Salience of Disadvantaged Position Reduces AI Aversion in Moral Delegation
15:30 - 17:00
Location: LI-2308
Chair/s:
Yiting Guo
Discussant/s:
Issa Dahabreh
Yiqiang Wang - Dual-Capacity Signaling: How Police Show Regime Strength on Douyin
Xiaoyu Li - Analyzing Public Risk and Action Awareness under Extreme Disaster Early Warnings Using Large Language Models
Zilin Zhou - Assessing the Domestic Legitimacy of Climate-Induced Migration: A Socio-Sensing and LLM-Based Analysis of the Australia-Tuvalu "Falepili Union"
Yiting Guo - Information Interventions and Cash Subsidies: A Field Experiment on Uptake of HPV Vaccines
17:00 - 17:15
Coffee Break - Refreshments provided
17:15 - 18:30
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Raymond Duch
Discussant/s:
David Broska, Zeyu Lyu
Roundtable 2 - When Do LLM Simulations Become Evidence About People?
19:00 - 21:00
Event Reception - Faculty Lounge (9/F, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Complex)