We visited the University of Wollongong, our partner institution in this Joint Degree Program. For the first time, we held a joint seminar in person, which had previously been conducted exclusively online. During the seminar, students gave presentations and received valuable feedback and guidance from professors on both sides.

In addition, we were able to organize student exchange activities, individual meetings, and various discussions, making this visit highly meaningful. We also met with master’s course students who were staying there under our university’s research internship program, allowing us to hear about their current progress.

Minggang Wang, Shohei Kato, Wen Gu, Fenghui Ren, Jun Yan, “Depression detection from speech signals using a multiple temporal-frequency scale Channel Attention Mechanism”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 113, Part A, Elsevier, 2026.

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2025.108873 (publication: 2026.3) (Impact Factor: 4.9, SJR H-index: 125, Q1)

This was the forth time that an information session for our program (Joint Degree Doctoral Program in Informatics) was held.

At the session, we provided detailed explanations about the Joint Degree Program, our partner institution—the University of Wollongong in Australia—as well as matters related to staying in Australia.

We held an international exchange seminar and were honored to welcome Senior Lecturer Weihua Li from Auckland University of Technology for this lecture.

Abstract: Social computing examines how individuals interact, share information, and influence each other in online environments. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into this domain opens up powerful new capabilities to model, understand, and shape these interactions at scale. This seminar presents a series of representative AI-driven works across three core areas: modelling and simulating influence diffusion in large-scale, dynamic networks; promoting fairness and mitigating ideological isolation through diversity-aware recommendation algorithms; and detecting threats in social networks. Together, these efforts aim to advance intelligent systems that promote healthier, more inclusive, and trustworthy digital ecosystems.

Within the framework of our joint degree program, the International Collaborative Symposium for Informatics (ICSI 2024)—jointly organized by both universities—was held for the third time, this year at the University of Wollongong.

The symposium was organized in conjunction with The 8th IEEE International Conference on Agents (December 4–6). A total of 11 participants from Nagoya Institute of Technology attended and presented their research at both conferences.

Outside the conferences, student exchange activities such as a campus tour involving students from both universities were also conducted.