Research & Services
RESEARCH INTEREST
My research interests span various NLP topics, including:
Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for Multilingual NLP
Dialogue systems and conversational AI
Human-centric NLP
Text and Image Generation
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Fairness and Trustworthiness of NLP
NLP Applications: Education, Finance, Health, and Creative Industry
Parsing and Analysis of Syntax and Discourse
RESEARCH GRANTS
2024-2025: Google Cloud Credit | USD 5,000 | Text Generation Evaluation | Primary Investigator
2024-2025: MBZUAI research grant | AED 10,500 | Primary Investigator
2023-2024: SEAMEO-Australia Links Education Award | AUD 10,000 | AI-powered assessment for rural areas | Co-Investigator with N. Aisyah
2023-2026: MBZUAI-Weizmann | USD 900,000 | Brain Science and Neural Network | Co-Investigator with Dr. A. Shelmanov, Prof T. Baldwin, Prof M. Tsodyks
SERVICES
2025
Area Chair (Action Editor) of ACL ARR
Area Chair of COLING, *SEM
Secretary of SIGSEA (the ACL Special Interest Group on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
2024
Program committee of EACL, NAACL, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL-SRW, W-NUT, CMCL, ALTA, SEALP
Invited journal reviewer: Neurocomputing; Artificial Intelligence In Medicine; Neural Network; Natural Language Processing Journal; Artificial Intelligence
PhD Candidacy Exam committee of (1) Dmitry Demidov (MBZUAI), (2) Wafa Hamad Mohamed Alghallabi (MBZUAI)
2023
Program committee of EACL, ACL, AACL, EMNLP, NLPCC, ACL-SRW, AACL-SRW, PRICAI, ALTA
Invited journal reviewer: AI Open; Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing; Nature Human Behaviour
Mentor of ACL-SRW
2022
Session Chair: EMNLP (Language and Resource / virtual)
Program committee of ICLR, ACL (ARR), NAACL (ARR), EMNLP, NAACL-SRW, LREC, ALTA, NLPCC, ICONIP, ICAICTA, W-NUT
Mentor of ACL-SRW
2021
Program committee of ACL, EMNLP, ALTA, ICONIP
2019
Secondary reviewer of NAACL
2017
Invited journal reviewer: Knowledge-Based System Elsevier
Contact
Fajri Koto (Assistant Professor)
NLP Department, MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae