Experience

Pitik

• Indonesia
• Farming
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of AI and Data Science

  • May 2022 - Present

  Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia Lead, manage, and mentor the Data/AI division with the following responsibilities: - Dashboarding and monitoring through data and metrics - Generate data-driven recommendations to help strategic business decisions and to improve efficiency - Develop chicken-farm-efficiency predictive models - Develop computer vision technologies for smart farm monitoring - Develop price and anomaly detection models - Develop models and trackers for internal company use (e.g., KPI… Show more Lead, manage, and mentor the Data/AI division with the following responsibilities: - Dashboarding and monitoring through data and metrics - Generate data-driven recommendations to help strategic business decisions and to improve efficiency - Develop chicken-farm-efficiency predictive models - Develop computer vision technologies for smart farm monitoring - Develop price and anomaly detection models - Develop models and trackers for internal company use (e.g., KPI trackers) - Develop automated end-to-end data and machine learning pipelines (DataOps and MLOps) - from data sources, into the data warehouse(s) (ELT), into BI tools for visualization and into predictive model training pipelines - Support ad-hoc data processing and analytics requirements from all levels - Liaison with the relevant teams and important decision-makers to ensure the effectiveness of the data, ML, and AI products - Advise the company on new directions regarding data and AI-driven solutions - Ensure good data practice and regulatory compliance across the company through SOPs and documentation Tech stack: postgresql, spreadsheet, airflow, clickhouse, S3, dbt, metabase, superset, dvc, clearml, python, pandas, sklearn, pytorch, tensorflow, hyperopt, pycaret, flask, fastapi (all hosted in Google Cloud Platform) Show less



Freelance

• AI & Data Trainer/Consultant

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  I am an active trainer/mentor/guest lecturer in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI workshops, with over >30 training/workshops/seminars overseen (including pro-bono appointments).



University of Indonesia

• Indonesia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Member

  • May 2020 - Jul 2022

  Depok, West Java, Indonesia @ Faculty of Computer Science, co-supervising AI research at the AI Centre of Excellence. Research topics: X-ray imaging for COVID-19 detection, Recommendation systems for e-commerce. Bachelor theses and master theses supervised: Recommendation Systems, Mental-health CBT chatbot, Data augmentation, Question answering system in Bahasa Indonesia, Open Information Extraction in Bahasa Indonesia, and Summarization in Bahasa Indonesia. Courses taught: Statistics and Probability (B.Sc.,… Show more @ Faculty of Computer Science, co-supervising AI research at the AI Centre of Excellence. Research topics: X-ray imaging for COVID-19 detection, Recommendation systems for e-commerce. Bachelor theses and master theses supervised: Recommendation Systems, Mental-health CBT chatbot, Data augmentation, Question answering system in Bahasa Indonesia, Open Information Extraction in Bahasa Indonesia, and Summarization in Bahasa Indonesia. Courses taught: Statistics and Probability (B.Sc., 2020-2021), Information Retrieval (B.Sc., 2020-2021), Advanced Information Retrieval (M.Sc., 2020-2021), Advanced Machine Learning (M.Sc., 2020-2021) Certification courses taught: Python, Data Science, Text Mining, Machine Learning & Deep Learning Conferences and Journal participations: JIKI (Journal of Computer Science and Information) as a reviewer and editor, Information Technology & People Journal as a reviewer, International Conference of Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS) 2020 as a PC Member and the Chair of the NLP session, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2021 as a Reviewer, Social Media Mining for Health Application (SMM4H) 2021 as a Reviewer. Show less



Kata.ai

• Indonesia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of AI Research

  • Sep 2021 - May 2022

  Jakarta Metropolitan Area

• Manager of AI Research

  • Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

  Jakarta, Indonesia Continuing responsibility. Maintaining AI research-product lifecycle. Oversees speech processing, machine translation, text-data augmentation, open-domain question answering, FAQ bot, healthcare chatbots, social commerce chatbots, text-to-speech, speech synthesis, and lightweight scalable AI model deployment. Supports account management via AI/ML tech consultation directly to clients. Mentored multiple internship positions within the team. Managed multiple humanitarian CSRs… Show more Continuing responsibility. Maintaining AI research-product lifecycle. Oversees speech processing, machine translation, text-data augmentation, open-domain question answering, FAQ bot, healthcare chatbots, social commerce chatbots, text-to-speech, speech synthesis, and lightweight scalable AI model deployment. Supports account management via AI/ML tech consultation directly to clients. Mentored multiple internship positions within the team. Managed multiple humanitarian CSRs (COVID-19 chatbot, hoax detector chatbot, and mental-health chatbot). Publichsed papers @ ACL and #SMM4H (an NAACL Workshop)

• Senior AI Research Scientist

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2021

  Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia Develops strategic AI R&D objectives | Planning and managing research capacity and resources | Leading an international team of talented researchers. In collaboration with national and international research institutes and universities, we develop core AI backbones for NLP such as large language models (LLMs), data synthesis, machine translation, and semantic knowledge, applied for chatbots. Technology used: Pytorch, huggingface, sklearn, wandb, NLTK, Stanza, TensorFlow AI solutions:… Show more Develops strategic AI R&D objectives | Planning and managing research capacity and resources | Leading an international team of talented researchers. In collaboration with national and international research institutes and universities, we develop core AI backbones for NLP such as large language models (LLMs), data synthesis, machine translation, and semantic knowledge, applied for chatbots. Technology used: Pytorch, huggingface, sklearn, wandb, NLTK, Stanza, TensorFlow AI solutions: language models, machine translation, and chatbots Industry sectors: healthcare, e-commerce, customer relation Published papers at: International Asian Language Processing (IALP) and Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC). I Was also involved in the development of the Indonesian National AI Strategy, together with various stakeholders including the government, universities, communities, and the industry. Details here: https://www.ai-innovation.id/strategi.



Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

• Italy
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Researcher

  • Mar 2019 - Jan 2020

  Bolzano Area, Italy I worked within the project of COCKPIT (https://cpm-project.inf.unibz.it/), where I investigated the area of automated scheduling in the scope of construction project management using constraint programming and machine learning.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Feb 2016 - Mar 2019

  Data Structures and Algorithm Programming Paradigms (Java, Python, Haskell, Ruby, Erlang, Prolog)

• PHD Candidate

  • Nov 2015 - Feb 2019

  *Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) was ranked 9th best small university in the world according to Times Higher Education (2018). I won one (ranked two globally) out of 8 scholarship positions in a public competition. I conducted research in the area of text summarization and visualization. I worked under the supervision of Assistant Prof. Mouna Kacimi and Prof. Werner Nutt. I investigated the area of natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning, data quality… Show more *Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) was ranked 9th best small university in the world according to Times Higher Education (2018). I won one (ranked two globally) out of 8 scholarship positions in a public competition. I conducted research in the area of text summarization and visualization. I worked under the supervision of Assistant Prof. Mouna Kacimi and Prof. Werner Nutt. I investigated the area of natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning, data quality, and information visualization. During this time, I developed my skills in (1) using knowledge bases such as DBpedia and Wikidata and the development of complex real-world knowledge bases (SPARK, Jena-TDB); (2) NLP tools such as Stanford's NLP, SEMAFOR SRL, and NLTK; (3) machine learning using python, Tensorflow, and word2vec; (4) web-scraping, cleaning, and its usage for distant-supervision; (5) web-based visualization application using d3js and Google Web Toolkit. I published in several top-level conferences including CIKM, IEEE Information Visualization, ISWC, ESWC, SIGMOD, and ICWE.

• Contract Researcher

  • Nov 2014 - Oct 2015

  I conducted research in the area of information extraction, sentiment analysis, and data quality.



Badr Interactive

• Indonesia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mobile Developer

  • Feb 2012 - Aug 2012

  I developed Android applications.



University of Indonesia

• Indonesia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2012

  Depok, Indonesia I taught various courses, 1-2 of which in each semester, including Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithm, Cryptography, and Numerical Analysis.



PT. IBM Indonesia

• Internship

  • Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

  Working on a Data Center Management System Project