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
2025-2027: The Dubai RDI Grant | AED 1,350,000 | Cultural Alignment of LLM | Chief Investigator with M. Alsmairat, H, Alkhazaleh, M. Nasar.
2024-2025: Google Cloud Credit | USD 5,000 | Text Generation Evaluation | Chief Investigator
2024-2025: MBZUAI research grant | AED 10,500 | Chief Investigator
2023-2024: SEAMEO-Australia Education Links Award | AUD 10,000 | AI-powered assessment for rural areas | Chief 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
Session Chair of COLING
Secretary of SIGSEA (the ACL Special Interest Group on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
Invited journal reviewer: Computational Linguistics
PhD Candidacy Exam committee of (1) Sara Ghaboura (MBZUAI)
MSc Thesis Examiner of (1) Anastasiia Demidova (MBZUAI), (2) Fathinah Asma Izzati (MBZUAI)
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