About

 Education

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Ph.D.

2017 - 2019

Information Science

M.Eng.

2015 - 2017

Information Science

GPA: 2.96/3.00

Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

B.Sc., cum laude

2010 - 2014

Informatics

GPA: 3.50/4.00

Projects and Experiences

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dialog Systems and Machine Learning, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

May 2019 - present

Towards intelligent dialogue systems. In particular I am working on learning a dialogue policy without explicitly predefined action spaces using variational inference and reinforcement learning approaches.

Project Researcher

SCOPE Project, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

October 2016 - 2018

End-to-end affective dialogue systems with awareness of emotional context. 

Intern Researcher

Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

July - September 2015

Data collection and machine learning for audio-visual emotion recognition in Japanese.

Intern Researcher

Augmented Human Communication Laboratory, Nara Institute Of Science and Technology, Japan

June - August 2013

Study of emotion and elicited emotion in spontaneous conversational data.

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award

21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
July 2020

NAIST Best Student Award

Nara Institute of Science and Technology
March 2019

MEXT Scholarship

The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
October 2014 - March 2019

TAF Travel Grant

The Technological Advancement Foundation

April 2017

Best-Rated Poster Presentation Award

IEEE Spoken Language Technology Committee
December 2014, South Lake Tahoe, United States of America

Best Student Paper Award

International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques
October 2014, Phuket, Thailand

JASSO Scholarship

Japan Student Services Organization

June - August 2013

Bank Indonesia Scholarship

Bank Indonesia

July 2007 - June 2010

Skills

Programming 

Languages

Indonesian

English

German


Japanese

Other Interests

I've been practicing fiber arts almost daily since 2017, mostly knitting and spinning. I have a huge appreciation for natural fibers, especially wool.


I play the ukulele from time to time. 


I love traveling and photography.