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RESEARCH INTEREST
My current research focus is Human-centered NLP, encompassing areas such as:
Dialogue systems and conversational AI
Cultural alignment of large language models (LLMs)
Fairness in generative AI
Agent-based frameworks for NLP applications across education, finance, healthcare, and the creative industries
Efficient and low-resource methods for multilingual NLP
Multimodal modeling
RESEARCH GRANTS
2025-2026: PUTI UI Grant | IDR 100 M | Semantic Analysis of Indonesian Customer Review | External Collaborator with I. Budi
2025-2026: Teaching Innovation Grant | AED 21,273 | A Human-AI Collaborative Framework in Graduate Education | Chief Investigator.
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 | Cultural Knowledge Graph | 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
Grant reviewer board: The Dubai RDI Grant 2025
Secretary of SIGSEA (the ACL Special Interest Group on Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing)
Area Chair (Action Editor) of AACL
Area Chair (Action Editor) of ACL
Area Chair (Action Editor) of EMNLP
Area Chair of COLING
Area Chair of *SEM
Session Chair of COLING (Resource and Evaluation)
Session Chair of ACL (NLP Applications)
Invited journal reviewer: Computational Linguistics
Invited journal reviewer: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
PhD Candidacy Exam committee of Sara Ghaboura (MBZUAI)
MSc Thesis Examiner of Anastasiia Demidova (MBZUAI)
MSc Thesis Examiner of Fathinah Asma Izzati (MBZUAI)
Screening Exam Admissions Committee – MBZUAI Entrance Questions
MSc/PhD Admissions Coordination (NLP Track)
Mentor of AACL-SRW
2024
Program committee of EACL
Program committee of NAACL
Program committee of ACL
Program committee of EMNLP
Program committee of NAACL-SRW
Program committee of W-NUT
Program committee of CMCL
Program committee of ALTA
Program committee of SEALP
Invited journal reviewer: Neurocomputing
Invited journal reviewer: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine
Invited journal reviewer: Neural Network
Invited journal reviewer: Natural Language Processing Journal
Invited journal reviewer: Artificial Intelligence
PhD Candidacy Exam committee of Dmitry Demidov (MBZUAI)
PhD Candidacy Exam committee of Wafa Hamad Mohamed Alghallabi (MBZUAI)
Screening Exam Admissions Committee – MBZUAI Entrance Questions
2023
Program committee of EACL
Program committee of ACL
Program committee of AACL
Program committee of EMNLP
Program committee of NLPCC
Program committee of ACL-SRW
Program committee of AACL-SRW
Program committee of PRICAI
Program committee of ALTA
Invited journal reviewer: AI Open
Invited journal reviewer: Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Invited journal reviewer: Nature Human Behaviour
Mentor of ACL-SRW
2022
Session Chair: EMNLP (Resource and Evaluation)
Program committee of ICLR
Program committee of ACL (ARR)
Program committee of NAACL (ARR)
Program committee of EMNLP
Program committee of NAACL-SRW
Program committee of LREC
Program committee of ALTA
Program committee of NLPCC
Program committee of ICONIP
Program committee of ICAICTA
Program committee of W-NUT
Mentor of ACL-SRW
2021
Program committee of ACL
Program committee of EMNLP
Program committee of ALTA
Program committee of 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
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