Scholar
Fajri Koto
Google Scholar ID: RA9l3s4AAAAJ
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), MBZUAI
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,277
H-index
24
i10-index
35
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded Gemini Academic Program Award for USD 50,000; multiple papers accepted to AACL 2025, EMNLP 2025, COLM 2025, ACL 2025, NAACL 2025, ICLR 2025, and other conferences; serves as Area Chair or Action Editor for several international conferences.
Research Experience
- Previously a postdoctoral research fellow at MBZUAI, working with Prof. Timothy Baldwin, Iryna Gurevych, and Preslav Nakov; over 4 years of industry experience at Samsung Research and KMKLabs; worked at Amazon Australia while completing his PhD.
Education
- PhD in Engineering (Natural Language Processing) from The University of Melbourne, supervised by Prof. Timothy Baldwin and Prof. Jey Han Lau; awarded the prestigious Australia Awards Scholarship during his PhD.
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the NLP Department at MBZUAI. Research interests include human-centered NLP, dialogue systems and conversational AI, cultural alignment of large language models (LLMs), fairness in generative AI, agent-based frameworks for NLP applications across education, finance, healthcare, and the creative industries, efficient and low-resource methods for multilingual NLP, and multimodal modeling.
Miscellany
- Leads the Koto MOSAIC Lab; welcomes students to reach out via email; can host research visits (up to 6 months); actively seeks good PhD students; MBZUAI offers a generous scholarship.
