Program Chairs

Haihua Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and director of the Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics Lab at University of North Texas, USA. His research focuses on data mining and AI in legal, patent, and policy documents. He has co-authored more than 60 publications in top-tier IS and CS venues.

Nguyen Ha Thanh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor at VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam, and a researcher affiliated with the Center for Juris-Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on legal information retrieval, automated legal reasoning, neuro-symbolic AI integration, and knowledge representation.

Joel Niklaus, Ph.D.

Research Scientist at Hugging Face, focusing on developing and evaluating legal-domain LLM systems. His research emphasizes multilingual dataset curation for legal NLP and has been recognized at top conferences including an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL.

Yang Zhang, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor in the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha Department of Data Science at the University of North Texas, USA. His research focuses on emerging AI paradigms, text mining, large language models, reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, AIoT, and cybersecurity.

Yu Fan

Researcher at ETH Zurich working at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and legal AI. His research focuses on building, evaluating, and stress-testing AI systems for legal reasoning, robustness, cross-jurisdictional generalization, and high-stakes evaluation.

Website Chair

Haoxuan Zhang

Ph.D. Student at the University of North Texas, USA.

Contact Information

Haihua Chen, University of North Texas, 3940 N. Elm St., Denton, TX, USA 76207, haihua.chen@unt.edu
Nguyen Ha Thanh, VinUniversity, Vinhomes Ocean Park, Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam, thanh.nh6@vinuni.edu.vn
Joel Niklaus, Hugging Face, Belpstrasse 37, 3007 Bern, Switzerland, joel@niklaus.ai
Yang Zhang, University of North Texas, 3940 N. Elm St., Denton, TX, USA 76207, yang.zhang@unt.edu
Yu Fan, ETH Zurich, Ramistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, yufan@ethz.ch

Program Committee Members

The DMAIL 2025 Program Committee included 37 people from academia and industry, representing 16 countries. We will invite them as PC members for DMAIL 2026 and expand the committee with additional members.

Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters Labs, USA
May Myo Zin, Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan
Minh-Phuong Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan
Thi-Hai-Yen Vuong, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Vu Tran, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan
Wachara Funwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan
Pedro Miguel Freitas, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal
Sarah Ryan, University of North Texas, USA
Yuki Todo, Kanazawa University, Japan
Jiangping Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Karolina Naranjo-Velasco, University of Virginia, USA
Manuel Fiorelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Ilaria Angela Amantea, University of Turin, Italy
Reshma Sheik, National Institute of Technology, India
Ankita Gupta, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Marco Siino, University of Catania, Italy
Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kripabandhu Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Xuran Wang, University of Pennsylvania, USA
David Lillis, University College Dublin, Ireland
Tomasz Zurek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Huihui Xu, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Prakash Poudyal, Kathmandu University, Nepal
Mi-Young Kim, University of Alberta, Canada
Zhuoren Jiang, Zhejiang University, China
Emilio Sulis, University of Torino, Italy
Abe Bohan Hou, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andrea Tagarelli, University of Calabria, Italy
Colin Doyle, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, USA
Ruta Liepina, University of Bologna, Italy
Aamir Abdullah, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
Yue Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jack Mumford, University of Liverpool, England
Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Sabine Wehnert, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany