Program Chairs

Haihua Chen

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

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

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

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

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

Haoxuan Zhang

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

Publicity Chair

Mao Guan

Mao Guan

Senior Applied Scientist at LinkedIn, 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 2026 Program Committee included 18 people from academia and industry, representing 10 countries:

  • May Myo Zin, Center of Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Japan
  • Mehmet Mikail Demir, University at Albany – SUNY, United States
  • Thi-Hai-Yen Vuong, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam
  • Huihui Xu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
  • Emilio Sulis, University of Turin, Italy
  • Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Sabine Wehnert, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  • Li Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, United States
  • David Lillis, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Aamir Abdullah, William S. Richardson School of Law, United States
  • Tomasz Zurek, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands
  • Mi-Young Kim, Department of Computing Science, U. of Alberta, Canada
  • Jieh-Sheng Lee, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan
  • Karolina Naranjo-Velasco, University of Virginia, United States
  • Manuel Fiorelli, Department of Enterprise Engineering, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
  • Pedro Miguel Freitas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
  • Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Japan
  • Colin Doyle, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, United States
  • Moriya Dechtiar, Harvard University, United States