Students and Collaborators

Current Students

• Ikhlasul Akmal Hanif (2025), PhD, MBZUAI, Co-supervised with Iryna Gurevych

• Junghong Liang (2025), PhD, MBZUAI, Co-supervised with Preslav Nakov

• Junior Cedric Tonga (2025), PhD, MBZUAI, Co-supervised with Xiuying Chen

• Renxi Wang (2025), PhD, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Tim Baldwin

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

• Adi Yeltay (2025), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Bashar Alhafni 

• Artur Pak (2025), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Kentaro Inui

• Mai Phuong Phan Chau (2025), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Monojit Choudhury 

• Mirat Aubakirov (2025), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Salem Lahlou

• Trung The Tran (2025), MSc, MBZUAI. Co-supervised with Tatsuki Kuribayashi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* denotes that those students actively collaborating with me under my role as secondary supervisor:

Current Staffs

• Amr Keleg (2025-now), Postdoctoral Researcher, MBZUAI

• Holy Lovenia (2025-now), Research Assistant, AUE

• Kevin Roni (2025-now), Research Engineer, Part-time.

• Amir Hossein Yari (2025-now), Visiting Researcher, MBZUAI

• Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar (2024-now), Research Engineer, MBZUAI.

Affiliated Researchers

I currently mentor these researchers in doing NLP research:

• Rashad Aziz (2025-now), University of Queensland & Universitas Indonesia (BSc)

• Mohammadamin Shafiei (2025-now), University of Milan (PhD student)

Past Staffs

• Junior Cedric Tonga (2024-2025), Research Associate, MBZUAI. Currently a PhD student at MBZUAI

• Ryandito Diandaru (2024-2025), Research Associate, MBZUAI. Currently a MSc student at 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 (AACL 2025)

• 2024-2025: Rafa Maulana (2025), BSc, Bandung Institute of Technology. Co-supervised with Samuel Cahyawijaya and Ayu Purwarianti

  • Research: Evaluating evaluation metrics for Indonesian local languages

• 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. (EMNLP 2025)

• 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 (Eval4NLP at AACL 2025)

  • Currently a Data Scientist at DANA Indonesia

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

  • Research: Procedural Text Comprehension (ACL 2025) and Text Evaluation in Indian Languages 

  • Incoming PhD Student at The University of Birmingham

• 2024-2025: Kulkarni Kalmit Sandeep (BSc, Vellore Institute of Technology in Bhopal)

  • Research: Text Evaluation in Indian Languages 

• 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.