08:30 - 18:00
Location: Foyer 19/F LAU Reception Area
Registration and Help Desk
 
 
09:00 - 10:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Edmund Cheng

Title: Inside-the-State Legibility: AI Simulation and the Black Box of Government Responsiveness in China

Tianguang Meng is the dean of school of social sciences and a professor of the Department of Political Science in Tsinghua University. His research interest includes urban governance, digital governance, political economy of Digital and AI technologies, and computational social science. He is the executive director of the Institute on Digital Government and Governance (IDG), and the deputy director of the Laboratory of Computational Social Science and State Governance at Tsinghua University. He has published several books on urban governance and digital governance. His articles have been published in journals such as Governance, World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Policy Study Journal, and China Quarterly.

 
10:15 - 11:45
Location: Multi-Function Room 1 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Emilie Tran
Discussant: King-wa FU

Lisa Lechner - Detecting Absence in Large Language Models: Missing Precedents and Omitted Provisions in Legal Text
Runyi Ma - Normative Rigidity vs. Probabilistic Fragility: Identifying the Phase Transition of Systematic Failure in Large Language Models via Structured Legal Logic
Emilie Tran, Eric Sautede - Governing the Lingua Franca of Power: Middle Eastern Agency in the Regulation of Large Language Models
James Wong - Generative AI in Policymaking: Bias, Limitations, and Implications for Policy Change
 
10:15 - 11:45
Location: Multi-Function Room 2 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Sascha Riaz
Songpo Yang - An Expert–Coder Multi-Agent System for Codebook-Based Text Annotation in Social Science
Saera Lee - Can Generative AI Reliably Code Treaty Texts? Evidence from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaties
Sascha Riaz - The Disappearing Conflict: Tracking Political Attention to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Across Five Million Speeches
Yusuf Evirgen - From Reports to Data: Harnessing LLMs for Fine-Grained Human Rights Data Collection
 
10:15 - 11:45
Location: LAU 5-203
Chair/s:
Zeyu Lyu
Discussant/s:
Vincent Xiaohui Wang
Quang Phuc Phung - Do Personas That Sound Right Also Choose Right?
David Broska - Fine-Tuned LLMs Forecast Survey Experiment Effect Sizes
Zeyu Lyu - Controlling LLM Agent Personality and Preferences through Representation Engineering
Yi Ching Victoria LAI (presenter), Shanshan ZHENAI - Hyperrealism: A Behavioural and Neural Investigation of Real and Synthetic Human Faces
 
10:15 - 11:45
Location: LI-2308
Chair/s:
David Hagmann
Discussant/s:
Ethan Busby
Sharon Xuejing Zuo - Learning with Machines: A Randomized Evaluation of AI-Assisted Education in Rural Middle Schools in China
Yang Lu - Persuasion and Precision: How Generative AI Moves Inflation Expectations
Arash Pourebrahimi - Policy Content, Distributional Conflict, and Contestation in the Council of the European Union
David Hagmann - Improving Communication with Generative Artificial Intelligence
 
10:15 - 11:45
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Raymond Duch
Discussant/s:
Issa Dahabreh, Scott Hale
Roundtable - The Risks of AI: Should We Slow Down?
 
11:45 - 12:00
Coffee Break - refreshments provided
 
12:00 - 13:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Edmund Cheng
Discussants: Jian Hua Jonathan Zhu; King-wa Fu
 
13:00 - 14:00
Free time - lunch location suggestions provided
 
14:00 - 15:00
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Raymond Duch
Issa Dahabreh, MD ScD, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Section Head for Epidemiology and Data Science at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research. His research develops methods for causal inference, evidence synthesis, and the use of trial and external data to improve the design and analysis of studies informing clinical and public health decisions.
 
15:00 - 16:30
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Chris Fei Shen
Discussants:
Xiaopeng Zhou (Alibaba),
Dongyang Zheng (Tencent),
Zhijie Zhao (Renderbus)
 
16:45 - 18:15
Location: Multi-Function Room 2 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Zening Duan
Discussant/s:
Yuner Zhu
Niranjan Sapkota - Topical Relevance or Strategic Gaming? Detecting Self-Citation Motives with Language Models Across Two Million Business and Management Articles
Zening Duan - How Academia, News, and the Public Make Moral Sense of Generative AI
Jinpeng Wang, Xin Yu - Decomposing Echo Chamber: An LLM Agent-Based Simulation of Network Structure, Algorithmic Filtering, and Polarization
 
16:45 - 18:15
Location: LI-2407
Chair/s:
Ethan Busby
Discussant/s:
David Hagmann
Elif Erisen - Stakes, Prospects, and Policy Domain: Citizens' Willingness to Delegate Political Decisions to Artificial Intelligence
Ethan Busby - Productive Disagreement as a Skill: AI-Supported Training for Political Conversations
Ma Runyi - Knoweia as a Learning Dialogue Terminal: A Multi-Agent AI System for Structured Learning in Computational Social Science
Zengchang Qin - Investigating Self-View Convergence in LLM Agents and Human-AI Interaction
Zhexi LIU - Facing the "Face": An LLM-Assisted Study on the Alignment of Political Leader Traits
 
16:45 - 18:15
Location: Multi-Function Room 1 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
yifei Zhu
Yifei Zhu - Agentic Framework for Political Biography Extraction
Hongjuan Zhao - From Image-Based Documents to Intelligent Research Tools: A Localized Collaborative Research Framework Integrating Knowledge Bases and Large Language Models for Dunhuang Studies
Chengke Zhu - “The flowers shed tears as I grieve over the times”: An Analysis of the Emotional Output in Du Fu's Poems Based on Large Language Models and Causal Inference
Jingwen Zhang - The Theoretical Logic and Practical Pathways of Empowering the Translation of Gong’an Literature through Large Language Models
 
16:45 - 18:15
Location: Senate Room (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Yanto Chandra
Discussant/s:
Yanto Chandra, Le Bao

Menglin LIU - Title: Refusal as Data: A Method for Measuring Information Control in LLM

Songpo YANG - A Multi-Agent System for Codebook Based Text Annotation

Michelle Mingyue GU - Xiaohongshu Social Comparison Reader Elicitation

Xiaofan LIU - Understanding Text Content By and With LLMs

Siqi HAN - Studying the Diffusion of Data Science Skills Using RAG and XMTC