Published several papers including 'The Privileged Students: On the Value of Initialization in Multilingual Knowledge Distillation' and 'COPAL-ID: Indonesian language reasoning with local culture and nuances'. Also contributed to datasets such as WORLDCUISINES, CVQA, and NusaCrowd.
Research Experience
Worked on text style transfer, efficiency, and data construction. Current research focuses on efficiency, data, and explainability in NLP.
Education
Aug 2023 - Current, Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Supervisors: Alham Fikri Aji (main) and Thamar Solorio (secondary). 2013 - 2017, Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.
Background
Research Interests: Learning Efficiency, Objective Functions, Curriculum Learning, Knowledge Distillation, Model Compression; Explainability: Interpretability in Efficiency, Model Understanding; Data: Data Building and Selection For Training and Evaluation. Before his PhD, he worked as a Software Engineer, gaining skills in full-stack development and DevOps.