Resource Award at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 for NusaWrites: Constructing High-Quality Corpora for Underrepresented and Extremely Low-Resource Languages
Area Chair’s Award at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 for A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity
Best Paper Award at SEALP 2023 for IndoToD: A Multi-Domain Indonesian Benchmark For End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2023 for NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages
Best Student Paper Award at DialDoc 2022 for Retrieval-Free Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Response Generation with Adapters
Honorable Mention Award at NLP4ConvAI for XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (September 2021)
Merit Award of e-Inclusion category at INAICTA 2014 (August 2014)
Semi-Finalist of the World Citizenship Category of Imagine Cup 2014 (August 2014)
1st Place Winner of Data Mining Competition at Gemastik 6 (October 2013)
1st Place Winner of Gemastik 6 Debugging Competition at Gemastik 6 (October 2013)
3rd Place Winner of Samsung App Challenge 2013 (September 2013)
1st Place Winner of the Innovation Category of Imagine Cup 2013 (March 2013)
Background
Currently working as a 3rd year PhD student at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAiRE) at HKUST, focusing on multilingualism for low-resource languages, especially in Southeast Asian languages. Also supervising undergraduate and master students interested in NLP research.
Miscellany
Interests include researching multicultural and multilingualism across various language families and modalities.