Alham Fikri Aji

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Data Science

E: alham.fikri@monash.edu

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Dr. Alham Fikri Aji is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Monash University, Indonesia. He is also an Assistant Professor at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He received his Ph.D. and MSc. from the University of Edinburgh. Aji has worked as an NLP scientist at an Indonesian start-up, then moved to Amazon Alexa, before returning to academia.

Aji's work revolves around efficient and accessible NLP. Specifically, he explores how to efficiently train and deploy NLP models through efficient fine-tuning, model compression, and distillation. Additionally, the lack of data makes many NLP technologies inaccessible, so part of Aji's work involves constructing multilingual NLP corpora for training and evaluation, especially for Indonesian languages. He has also worked on evaluating LLMs on cultural and local nuances, as many NLP systems and data do not capture local nuances. Aji is active in grassroots NLP communities, especially for Indonesian and Southeast Asian NLP communities. He actively leads and works on several community-based research projects.

Aji was active in competitive programming and was one of Indonesia's representatives at the IOI 2010, where he achieved a silver medal. He also participated in and won several ACM-ICPC competitions and participated in the World Finals in 2014.

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