Students and Collaborators

Current Students

• Saeed Almheiri (2024), PhD, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Tim Baldwin

• Bilal El Bouardi (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Salem Lahlou

• Salsabila Zahirah Pranida (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Thamar Solorio

• Mukhammed Togmanov (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Qirong Ho

• Nurkhan Laiyk (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Hanan Aldarmaki

• Rifo Ahmad Genadi (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Kentaro Inui

• Mariam Amr Hassanien Rizk Barakat (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Ekaterina Kochmar

• Besher Hassan (2024), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Xiuying Chen

• Eryawan Presma Yulianrifat (2025), BSc, Universitas Indonesia. Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono

• M. Alif Al Hakim (2025), BSc, Universitas Indonesia. Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono

• Belati Jagad Bintang Syuhada (2025), BSc, Universitas Indonesia. Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono

• Lucinda Laurent (2025), BSc, Universitas Indonesia. Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono

• Rafa Maulana (2025), BSc, Bandung Institute of Technology. Co-supervised with Samuel Cahyawijaya and Ayu Purwarianti

• Kulkarni Kalmit Sandeep (2024), BSc, Vellore Institute of Technology in Bhopal. 

Current Staffs

• Junior Cedric Tonga (2024), Research Associate, MBZUAI.

• Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar (2024), Research Associate, MBZUAI.

• Ryandito Diandaru (2024), Research Associate, MBZUAI.

Past Students

• 2025-2025: MBZUAI Undergraduate Internship Program: Adrian Santosh (UIUC), Josemaria Loza (NYU), Ruslan Tasmukhanov (Nazarbayev University), and Yerulan Kongrat (Nazarbayev University). Co-supervised with Muhammad Dehan and Saeed Almheiri

  • Research: Role-aware LLM

• 2024-2025: Muhammad Falensi Azmi (BSc, Universitas Indonesia). Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono and Muhammad Dehan

  • Research: Culturally Grounded Safety for LLMs in Indonesian Languages. 

• 2024-2025: Naila Shafirni (BSc, Universitas Indonesia). Co-supervised with Alfan Wicaksono and Muhammad Dehan

  • Research: Simulating Training Data Leakage in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for LLM Evaluation

  • Currently a Data Scientist at DANA Indonesia

• 2024-2025: Amir Hossein Yari (BSc, Sharif University of Technology) 

  • Research: Procedural Text Comprehension. (ACL 2025)

  • Incoming PhD Student at The University of Birmingham

• 2021-2022: Andrew Shen (BSc, The University of Melbourne). Co-supervised with Tim Baldwin and Jey Han Lau

  • Research: Bottom-up discourse parsing. (CODI at COLING 2022)

  • Was an MSc student at CMU and currently an ML Engineer at Tesla (USA)

Collaborators*

• 2023-2025: Chen Cecilia Liu (PhD student, TU Darmstadt and University of Cambridge) 

• 2023-2025: Rahmad Mahendra (PhD student, RMIT)

• 2023-2025: Samuel Cahyawijaya (PhD student, HKUST)

* Student collaborators are students who are not under my supervision but have been extensively working together in research collaboration.