Activities年度成果與活動
Teaching, research, and service advance together: interdisciplinary lectures enter the classroom, cross-departmental communities take shape, and outreach extends to high schools.
In AY 2025–26 the Center centered on "AI × social policy," advancing teaching, research, and service together: interdisciplinary lectures entered sociology classrooms, two cross-field communities (teaching and paper-research) formed, three courses shared lesson design, and outreach reached high schools and the national academic community.
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shared lesson design
AI courses
research network
AI Lecture Series (Fall 2026)
Co-organized by the Center and the Soochow University Office of Personnel, this semester’s seven sessions bring together speakers from industry research, comics, data science, XR immersive technology, and the humanities. Sessions alternate between the Downtown and Waishuangxi campuses and are open to all faculty, staff, and students.
| No. | Date & time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026/09/18 (Fri) 10:30–12:30 | Where does AI come from? Global supply chains, geopolitics, and Taiwan’s role | Ying-Fen Lin (Researcher, Institute for Information Industry) | Elite Lecture Hall R5216, Downtown Campus |
| 2 | 2026/10/02 (Fri) 10:30–12:30 | Hands-on AI comic drawing | Chien-Hua Tseng (veteran comic artist) | Elite Lecture Hall R5216, Downtown Campus |
| 3 | 2026/10/13 (Tue) 13:00–15:00 | From idea to app: building your digital product with Codex | Ming-Hsiang Su (Assoc. Prof., Data Science) | Computer Lab B502, Waishuangxi Campus |
| 4 | 2026/10/22 (Thu) 13:00–15:00 | Crossing the virtual–real boundary: creating and experiencing XR | Kai-Yi Chin (Dean, College of Big Data Management) | NVIDIA Classroom R201, Waishuangxi Campus |
| 5 | 2026/10/29 (Thu) 13:00–15:00 | An AI dialogue experiment for business students | Mei-Jung Chen (Assoc. Prof., English) | Computer Lab B608, Waishuangxi Campus |
| 6 | 2026/10/30 (Fri) 10:30–12:30 | Cultivating AI literacy | Ying-Hsiang Lin (Assoc. Prof., Chinese Literature) | Elite Lecture Hall R5216, Downtown Campus |
| 7 | 2026/11/06 (Fri) 10:30–12:30 | When vibe coding meets AI agents: reshaping UI/UX and the future of human–AI co-development | Fang-Yi Huang (Assoc. Prof., Sociology) | Elite Lecture Hall R5216, Downtown Campus |
Center Lecture Series (Fall 2025)
Organized in three strands — "AI Applications & Creation," "Inequality & Family," and "AI Policy, Law & Criminology" — with speakers from comics, Academia Sinica, universities at home and abroad, and government.
| Date | Strand | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/15 | AI Applications | Gemini AI comics and picture books | Chien-Hua Tseng (veteran comic artist) |
| 2025/09/30 | AI Applications | Music AI: latest developments and challenges | Li Su (Assoc. Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) |
| 2025/10/09 | Inequality & Family | Creating a Podcast for Advocating through Storytelling | Dr. Grace Francis & Dr. Jodi Duke |
| 2025/10/13 | Policy, Law & Crime | Responsible AI and policymaking | Tun-Kai Chen (Asst. Prof., CS, Tamkang University) |
| 2025/10/20 | AI Applications | New human experiences after AI enters daily life — as AI and robots enter our physical and digital worlds, the new experiences they bring, helping us notice, reflect, and respond (in person + livestream) | Ming-Hui Wen (Prof., Business Design Management, NTUB; UxerLab) |
| 2025/10/27 | Policy, Law & Crime | How AI preserves national archives | Shao-Kang Hsu (National Archives Administration, NDC) |
| 2025/10/30 | Inequality & Family | AI and women in South Korea’s labor market | Yi-Chen Hung (Assoc. Prof., GIDS, NTU) |
| 2025/11/25 | Policy, Law & Crime | AI technology and political leadership | Wen-Hsuan Tsai (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) |
| 2025/12/02 | Policy, Law & Crime | From AI to gender responsiveness: treatment of female inmates | Shu-Lung Yang (National Chung Cheng University) |
| 2025/12/04 | Inequality & Family | Pension change in China’s AI society | Mark W. Frazier (The New School) |
| 2025/12/16 | Policy, Law & Crime | New faces of crime in the age of AI | Chun-Liang Liu |
The table lists lectures with complete records; the full series held 15 sessions, plus hands-on Kebbi-robot and n8n automation workshops.
Cross-departmental faculty community ・ Human-Centered AI grant ・ AY 2025–26
East Asian Social Futures Lab: The Boundaries of AI and Welfare
Frontiers of AI and Welfare in East Asia
Generative AI and large language models are rapidly entering social-security and welfare decision-making — from eligibility determination and long-term-care assessment to fraud detection. Convened by Assoc. Prof. Fang-Yi Huang and Prof. Chung-Yang Yeh, with Prof. Hui-Fen Hung (Soochow Social Work) and Asst. Prof. Shao-Fen Li (Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, NYCU), the community opens dialogue around three tensions: algorithmic governance vs. distributive justice, protecting the vulnerable vs. human-centered ethics, and local data vs. the verifiability of cross-national comparison.
| Date | Session | Speaker / participants |
|---|---|---|
| 2026/03/25 | From text to society: how generative AI analyzes human language | Ming-Hsiang Su (Assoc. Prof., Data Science, Soochow University) |
| 2026/03/26 | Members’ paper workshop: the platform economy and single mothers’ cumulative precarity | Hui-Fen Hung, Shao-Fen Li, Fang-Yi Huang, Chung-Yang Yeh |
| 2026/04/15 | What generative AI can and cannot do in the humanities | Ying-Hsiang Lin (Assoc. Prof., Chinese Literature, Soochow University) |
| 2026/04/22 | A sociology statistics class that codes in plain language | Mei-Jung Chen (Assoc. Prof., English, Soochow University) |
| 2026/04/29 | Immersive experience: mixed-reality education | Kai-Yi Chin (Dean, College of Big Data Management, Soochow University) |
| 2026/05/06 | Statistical analysis and application of AI in criminal justice | Yi-Chien Ku (Researcher, Crime Prevention Center, Judges & Prosecutors Academy, MOJ) |
Shared lesson design
- AI in Criminology: final projects used TSCS data to study AI early-warning bias in the social safety net; several groups extended these into theses
- AI for Social Good: group debates on "the ethical red lines of algorithmic governance," with "My social-policy dialogue with AI" reflection journals
- Social Statistics: five lectures ran in this slot; assignments moved to plain-language + AI-assisted practice
Five student learning outcomes
- AI text analysis (vectorized semantic space)
- Generative-AI literacy (rewrite risk, citation verification)
- AI-assisted statistics (coding in plain language)
- Immersive teaching (VR/AR long-term-care simulation)
- Spotting algorithmic bias (sensitivity/specificity and accountability)
Policy output: draft white paper
- Draft "White Paper on Social-Security Policy in the Age of AI," four chapters
- Ch.1 model-adoption thresholds ・ Ch.2 bias-monitoring mechanisms
- Ch.3 appeals and transparency ・ Ch.4 impact-assessment indicators
- Focused on accessibility, fairness, and accountability for vulnerable groups; an e-edition will be published in AY 2026–27 and sent to relevant ministries
Today ・ 2026-10-16 (Fri) ・ Soochow University
Lecture: "From Design Psychology to Behavior Change: The Role of Kansei in Interdisciplinary Research"
Professor Meng-Cong Zheng of the Department of Industrial Design, National Taipei University of Technology. A Doctor of Design Science from Chiba University, Japan, Professor Zheng is Dean of Library and Information Services at Taipei Tech and President of the Taiwan Institute of Kansei, and has received the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology and a research grant from the Sumitomo Foundation. Starting from the curriculum of Taipei Tech's School of Design, the talk traces his evidence-based design research: passenger behavior at Taipei Main Station ticket counters, information visualization on vehicle dashboards, self-service ordering in fast-food restaurants, cardless ATM withdrawal interfaces, and wayfinding experiments with 2D maps and landmarks. He shows how behavioral data and kansei engineering improve interface design, and closes with interdisciplinary opportunities and advice for master's and doctoral students.
Held ・ 2026-10-02 (Fri) 10:30–12:30 ・ Elite Lecture Hall R5216, Downtown Campus
AI Lecture Series, Session 2: "Hands-on AI Comic Drawing"
Veteran comic artist Chien-Hua Tseng returns after his Center lecture on Gemini-AI comics and picture books, this time leading a hands-on session. Starting from character design and storyboarding through prompt writing, participants will use generative AI tools to create a short comic of their own, and discuss style consistency and copyright in AI-assisted creation. This is Session 2 of the AI Lecture Series co-organized with the Office of Personnel; all faculty, staff, and students are welcome.
In planning ・ from 2027-07-06 ・ Soochow University, Room B608
High-school AI Summer Camp: "AI, Big Data & Immersive Creation" workshop (with a 2027 winter camp in planning)
Coordinated by Director Fang-Yi Huang, who also leads the "AI Criminology Lab." The two-day program gathers interdisciplinary speakers: Chien-Hua Tseng (AI and arts creation), Chung-Yang Yeh (Claude website design), Wei-Gong Liu (generative-AI works high schoolers can make), Yu-Cheng Liu (turning ideas into a storytelling exhibition), Kai-Yi Chin (AR/VR/MR story stage), an NVIDIA instructor (building deployable AI products), and Mei-Jung Chen (English songs and multimodal creation with generative AI). Five camp outputs: a podcast, an AI website, AI music, an AI picture book, and a short-video ad — leading high schoolers through hands-on AI creation from a sociological lens and extending the Center’s teaching to the high-school level.
In planning ・ Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Interdisciplinary forum: "AI Employability and Social Inequality"
As AI reshapes labor-market skill demands and the higher-education curriculum map, this forum makes "social inequality" the through-line, confronting who benefits and who is left behind. Speakers: Kai-Yi Chin (Dean, College of Big Data Management), Ming-Hsiang Su (Director, AI Applications Program), Ying-Hsiang Lin (Chinese Literature), and Mei-Jung Chen (English), moderated by Fang-Yi Huang (Sociology; Center Director) with ten questions across four themes.
AY 2025–26 ・ Awards and grants
Selected projects and recognition
The Director was selected as a participating teacher in the 2026 MOE Digital Humanities Innovation and Humanities-AI pilot programs; the "East Asian Social Futures Lab" received a Human-Centered AI Center cross-departmental faculty-community grant for AY 2025–26; and research results advanced to the second round of the NSTC AI Innovation Award.
Online platforms
Center Medium column and student portfolios
The Center publishes essays on AI and society on Medium; AI-course student portfolios are public at scu-portfolio.web.app, with a Japan-exchange site serving as an international window.