About Me
I am a PhD student in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), supervised by Dr. Alham Fikri Aji.
Before my PhD, I had an opportunity to work in industry and do some projects as a Software Engineer, gaining skill in full-stack development and DevOps. Consequently, I can bridge the gap between theoretical advances and practical implementations.
I have experience in text style transfer, efficiency, and data construction, with current interests focusing on efficiency, data, and explainability in NLP, specifically:
- How to improve model learning? (e.g., curriculum learning, knowledge distillation, and creating novel objective functions)
- How do models learn effectively, and what do they learn? (Interpretability)
- What data should be used to enhance model performance (e.g., data selection and synthesis), and how can we create robust and holistic evaluation datasets to assess models (data creation)?
Education
Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing
MBZUAI Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Supervisor: Alham Fikri Aji
- First-author papers: Multicultural Spyfall (AACL 2026), Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning (IJCNLP-AACL 2025), COPAL-ID (NAACL 2024), and The Privileged Students (arXiv 2024).
- Co-authored papers at ACL 2026, AACL 2026, NAACL 2025, NeurIPS 2024, and Findings of IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
Bachelor in Computer Science
University of Indonesia Depok, Indonesia
Publications
Multicultural Spyfall: Assessing LLMs through Dynamic Multilingual Social Deduction Game
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alaa Elsetohy, Qinrong Cui, Alham Fikri Aji
AACL • 2026
Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning: What Matters?
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Haiyue Song, Hideki Tanaka, Masao Utiyama, Alham Fikri Aji, Raj Dabre
IJCNLP-AACL • 2025
Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling
Alaa Elsetohy, Sama Hadhoud, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Chenxi Whitehouse, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Alham Fikri Aji
ACL • 2026
Sparse Autoencoders Can Capture Language-Specific Concepts Across Diverse Languages
Lyzander Marciano Andrylie, Inaya Rahmanisa, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alham Fikri Aji
AACL • 2026
Unveiling the Influence of Amplifying Language-Specific Neurons
Inaya Rahmanisa, Lyzander Marciano Andrylie, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alham Fikri Aji
Findings of IJCNLP-AACL • 2025
WORLDCUISINES: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines
Genta Indra Winata, Frederikus Hudi, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, David Anugraha, Rifki Afina Putri, Yutong Wang, ..., Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, ..., David Ifeoluwa Adelani, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Shogo Okada, Ayu Purwarianti, Alham Fikri Aji, Taro Watanabe, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Alice Oh, Chong-Wah Ngo
NAACL • 2025
The Privileged Students: On the Value of Initialization in Multilingual Knowledge Distillation
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji
Arxiv • 2024
CVQA: Culturally-diverse multilingual visual question answering benchmark
David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Teresa Lynn, Injy Hamed, ..., Oana Ignat, Joan Nwatu, Rada Mihalcea, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji
Neurips • 2024
COPAL-ID: Indonesian language reasoning with local culture and nuances
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Alham Fikri Aji
NAACL • 2024
NusaCrowd: Open source initiative for Indonesian NLP resources
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Winata, Bryan Wilie, Fajri Koto, Rahmad Mahendra, Christian Wibisono, ..., Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, ..., Graham Neubig, Timothy Baldwin, Sebastian Ruder, Pascale Fung, Herry Sujaini, Sakriani Sakti, Ayu Purwarianti
Findings of ACL • 2023
On `scientific debt` in nlp: A case for more rigour in language model pre-training research
Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Indra Winata, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Phil Blunsom, Adhiguna Kuncoro
ACL • 2023
Which student is best? a comprehensive knowledge distillation exam for task-specific bert models
Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Rendi Chevi, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Alham Fikri Aji
Arxiv • 2022
Indocollex: A testbed for morphological transformation of indonesian word colloquialism
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Afra Feyza Akyürek, Suci Fitriany, Alham Fikri Aji, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Derry Tanti Wijaya
ACL-IJCNLP • 2021
BERT Goes Brrr: A Venture Towards the Lesser Error in Classifying Medical Self-Reporters on Twitter
Alham Fikri Aji, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa
SMM4H Workshop @ NAACL • 2021
Costs to consider in adopting NLP for your business
Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Alham Fikri Aji
Arxiv • 2020
Semi-supervised low-resource style transfer of indonesian informal to formal language with iterative forward-translation
Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Tatag Aziz Prawiro, Muhammad Ihsan, Alham Fikri Aji, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Rahmad Mahendra, Suci Fitriany
IALP • 2020
Towards Product Attributes Extraction in Indonesian E-commerce Platform
Muhammad Rif'at, Rahmad Mahendra, Indra Budi, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo
Computación y Sistemas • 2018
Cross-Lingual and Supervised Learning Approach for Indonesian Word Sense Disambiguation Task
Rahmad Mahendra, Heninggar Septiantri, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Ruli Manurung, Mirna Adriani
Global Wordnet Conference • 2018
Experience
Research Scientist Intern
NICT- 情報通信研究機構 Kyoto, Japan
- Working to research Model Efficiency in NLP
Senior AI Research Scientist
Kata.ai Jakarta, Indonesia
- Topic: Indonesian NLP and Text Style Transfer
- Researched tackling colloquial and style transfer problems (Published two papers)
- Developed a text data synthesis for chatbot builder.
- Won first place at a shared task on Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2021 shared task (ACL)
- Researched Image Retrieval.
- Researched Model Compression Technique in NLP.
AI Software Engineer
Deligence.ai Jakarta, Indonesia
- Developed an object detection model for identifying the car's category.
Research & Teaching Assistant
Fasilkom UI Depok, Indonesia
- Worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of the Computer Science University of Indonesia. Courses that I assisted: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Science and Analytics, Design and Analytic Algorithm, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, and Math I.
- Researched Crosslingual Word Sense Disambiguation and E-commerce attribute dataset. Published two papers as a result.
Professional Activities
Reviewers
ACL
Reviewed papers in ARR, SEALP, COLM, and COLING.
Talks
Indonesian Language Reasoning With Local Culture
Bridging the Cultural Divide in AI: Analyzing Fairness, Bias, and Transparency across Cultures (MBZUAI)
2024 • Abu Dhabi, UAE
Q2AI: A Quick Course to Quick AI
PRICAI Tutorial - Main Instructor
2023 • Jakarta, Indonesia
Retrieval Systems in the Wild - Two Use Cases
Guest lecture at Universitas Indonesia
2022 • Depok, Indonesia
Machine Learning for Text - Things I wish I knew in my College Life
Guest lecture at Universitas Indonesia
2021 • Depok, Indonesia