Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD of Engineering (2018-2022), The University of Melbourne, Australia
Fully funded program by Australia Awards Scholarship. PhD Thesis: "From Discourse and Keyphrases to Language Modeling in Automatic Summarization". Supervisor: Prof. Timothy Baldwin and Prof. Jey Han Lau.
MSc of Computer Science (2013-2014), Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Graduated with Cum Laude (first class honor). MSc thesis: "A Comparative Study over Twitter Sentiment Analysis: Which Features Are Good?" Supervisor: Dr. Mirna Adriani.
BSc of Computer Science (2009-2013), Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Graduated with Cum Laude (first class honor).

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2024-now: Assistant Professor at MBZUAI, UAE
2022-2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MBZUAI, UAE
Engaged in Natural Language Processing research with Prof. Timothy Baldwin and Prof. Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt, Germany). I am part of the core evaluation team for large language model initiatives (JAIS, LLM360), in collaboration with Prof. Preslav Nakov, Prof. Eric Xing, Dr. Haonan Li, Dr. Zhengzhong Liu (Peetum Inc), and Dr. Willie Neiswanger (Stanford)
2021-2022: Applied Scientist at Amazon, Australia
Worked on NLP and Computer Vision. Projects: 1) multimodal language generation system; 2) information extraction system. Advisors: Prof. Chunhua Shen and Prof. Anton van den Hengel.
2020-2021: Tutor at School of CIS, The University of Melbourne, Australia
a. Natural Language Processing COMP90042 (Semester 1, 2020) - Dr. Jey Han Lau
b. Natural Language Processing COMP90042 (Semester 1, 2021) - Dr. Jey Han Lau
2016-2017: Data Scientist at PT KMK Labs, Indonesia
Mainly Worked on a spam detection system that is integrated into BBM, Vidio, and Liputan6. Other responsibilities include data migration, tracking system, and logs extraction in AWS and GCP.
2014-2016: Researcher at Samsung Research Institute, Indonesia
Delivered 3 global (US) and 1 local (ID) patents.
Summer 2013: Research Intern at NAIST, Japan
Worked on Speech Technology at AHC Labs, with research topics: 1) Speech Summarization and 2) Quote Detection on Speech. Advisors : Prof. Sakriani Sakti, Prof. Graham Neubig, Prof. Tomoki Toda, and Prof. Satoshi Nakamura
2010-2013: Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
a. Calculus 1 (Fall 2010) - Dr. Kasiyah
b. Private Tutor (Spring 2011) - NA
c. Database (Fall 2011) - Dr. Ika Alfina
d. Discrete Math 1 (Spring 2012) - Prof. Belawati H. Widjaja, Ph.D
e. Private Tutor (Spring 2012) - NA
f. Statistic and Probability (Fall 2012) - Dr. Ika Alfina
g. Theory of Language and Automata (Spring 2013) - Dr. Dina Cahyati
h. Statistic and Probability (Fall 2013) - Dr. Ika Alfina
Summer 2012: Software Engineer Intern at PT Astra International, Indonesia

AWARDS

2024: Outstanding reviewer of EACL 2024
2023: Best resource paper award of AACL 2023
2023: Outstanding paper award of EACL 2023
2023: SEAMEO-Australia Links Education Award
2022: Rank 1st in ALTA 2022 shared task
2022: Best paper award of CSRR 2022 at ACL
2021: Rank 2nd in ALTA 2021 shared task
2021: Data Science Indonesia Award: Nominee for Data Researcher
2021: FEIT Unimelb conference travel scholarship for attending EACL, NAACL, ACL, and EMNLP as a presenter
2020: MSE Unimelb conference travel scholarship for attending AACL, COLING as a presenter
2017: Australia Awards Scholarship (out of 5300+ applicants), estimated total of awards for PhD: A$358,000
2014: Best session presenter at the International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information System
2014: Cum Laude Award (Top 5), Graduation of Master's Degree in Faculty of CS, Universitas Indonesia
2013: Cum Laude Award (Top 5), Graduation of Bachelor's Degree in Faculty of CS, Universitas Indonesia
2013: Awardee of Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), Summer research internship at NAIST, Japan
2012: Awardee of Fast track DIKTI (Minister of Higher Education) scholarship, Bachelor + Master degree at UI
2009: PPKB award for high-achiever high school students to get admitted to Universitas Indonesia(UI) without national exam
2008: Rank 7th (out of 1000+), High School Math competition, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
2007: Semi-finalist, Junior High School Physic competition, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
2006: Top 200 (0.5%) National (out of 40,000+), Junior High School Math Competition, PASIAD, Indonesia

Contact

Fajri Koto (Assistant Professor)
NLP Department, MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae