AI/ML engineer in Melbourne working on speech and language technology, with a focus on low-resource languages. I build production ASR and TTS systems by day and publish NLP research on the side.
- ๐ข Lead AI Engineer at Bookbot โ on-device ASR/TTS across English, Indonesian, Swahili, and Colombian Spanish, plus LLM/RAG systems and the MLOps pipeline behind them
- ๐ MSc in Information Technology (Artificial Intelligence), The University of Melbourne
- ๐ฌ Research interests: low-resource NLP, multilingual document understanding, RAG, and parameter-efficient LLM fine-tuning
- ๐ฎ๐ฉ Part of LazarusNLP, where we train Indonesian and regional language models
- ๐ค Models and datasets on Hugging Face
- ๐ฌ Happy to talk about speech, low-resource MT, or anything NLP โ reach me by email or on LinkedIn
- MUDIDI: A Two-Stage Framework for Multilingual Dictionary Digitization with Language Models โ EMNLP 2026 (first author) paper ยท code ยท dataset ยท docs
- Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG โ LoResMT @ EACL 2026
- NusaBERT: Multilingual and Multicultural IndoBERT โ COLING 2025 code ยท models
- Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Multi-Label Emotion Classification via Sentence-Label Pairing โ SemEval-2025 (1st place, Sundanese track) code


