About me

I am currently a Staff Software Engineer at Google Ireland after spending 8 years at Google Japan as a Computational Linguist. Prior to this, I spent 10 years as an academic at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia, where I helped to bootstrap the NLP research lab from scratch to become one of the premier labs in the region.

Experience

• 2025-present: Software Engineer, Google Ireland
• 2016-2024: Computational Linguist, Google Japan
• 2007-2015: IR/NLP lab co-lead & Computer Science Dept. Head, Universitas Indonesia
• 2004-2006: Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh

Education

• 1998-2003: Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh
• 1992-1997: Bachelor of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia

Research

See my profile on Google Scholar for a list of my publications. In general, my research interests focus on two central topics:

• Indonesian NLP resources & tools, and
• Evolutionary/computational language creativity