Preparing for the Human-Agent Society

Where Humans and Agents Become Allies

The Human-Agent Ally Lab pioneers research that bridges humans and intelligent agents — augmenting how we think, supporting high-stakes decisions, and preparing society for a future where humans and agents work, decide, and live together.

HAA (はぁ〜): our name embodies the sigh of relief and satisfaction — "Haa~, I'm so glad this exists!" — the feeling when human-agent collaboration truly works.

What We Do

Three Pillars of Human-Agent Research

Interconnected research areas shaping how humans and intelligent agents build, collaborate, and coexist.

Agent Design & Frameworks

Building the foundations of intelligent agents: robust architectures, advanced information retrieval, and performance optimization.

  • Information Retrieval for Agents
  • LLM-based Agent Architectures
  • Performance & Efficiency
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Human-Agent Teaming

Exploring how agents augment human cognition in complex problem-solving, high-stakes decision-making, and collaborative work.

  • Higher-Order Thinking Augmentation
  • High-Stakes Decision-Making
  • High-Fidelity Interaction Design
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Human-Agent Society

Investigating how integrating intelligent agents transforms social structures, economies, and the norms we live by.

  • Societal Transformation Analysis
  • Economic & Cultural Impact
  • Governance & Policy Design
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Why HAA Lab

Research That Reaches the Real World

Award-Winning Team

Home of a SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award recipient and an ANLP Outstanding Paper Award (top 2%), with work published at ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, and WWW.

Global Network

Active collaborations across Japan, Taiwan, Germany, the UK, India, Korea, France, Thailand, and beyond — plus leadership of ACL SIG-FinTech and the NTCIR evaluation series.

Community Builders

We founded and run the FinNLP workshop series, shared tasks at NTCIR and SemEval, and tutorials at AACL, EMNLP, ECAI, SIGIR, and LREC.

Join Our Mission

We're looking for passionate PhD students, research interns, and postdoctoral fellows who share our vision of a harmonious human-agent society.