Rafal Rzepka

Rafal Rzepka is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, and a visiting researcher at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan. His research focuses on achieving machine intelligence by integrating commonsense knowledge with real-life contexts and human emotions, particularly leveraging language models to simulate sentiment changes influenced by actors, patients, objects, or locations.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Engineering (2004), Hokkaido University, Japan
• Master’s Degree in Modern Linguistics (1999), Poznan University, Poland
• Cybersociology studies (1999–2001), Otaru University of Commerce, Japan

Research Interests: His work spans natural language processing, AI ethics, and affective computing. He explores how language models can contextualize emotions and commonsense reasoning to build more human-like AI systems.

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