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