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Fajri Koto, PhD
Assistant Professor at NLP Department
MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates

I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the NLP Department at MBZUAI. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at MBZUAI, working with Prof. Timothy Baldwin and collaborating closely with Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Preslav Nakov. I hold a PhD in Engineering (Natural Language Processing) from The University of Melbourne, where I was supervised by Prof. Timothy Baldwin and Prof. Jey Han Lau. During my PhD, I was awarded the prestigious Australia Awards Scholarship. You can find my PhD thesis here.

Before my academic career, I gained 4+ years of industry experience at Samsung Research and KMKLabs. Additionally, I worked at Amazon Australia while completing my PhD.

I lead Koto MOSAIC Lab with current research focus in Human-centered NLP, encompassing areas such as:

If you are a new MBZUAI student and are interested in working with me, feel free to reach out! You can contact me via email.

If you are interested in doing PhD with me and want to do the visit prior to your study:

I may be able to host a research visit (up to 6 months) starting after January 2026. If you're interested in a research collaboration, feel free to contact me via email.

For prospective graduate student:

I actively seek good PhD students. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD under my supervision at MBZUAI, please send your CV, transcript, and a 2-page research proposal/idea to fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae. Please note that I am unlikely to respond to inquiries that do not include these three documents. You can also directly apply through the MBZUAI admission portal. Upon admission, you'll have the opportunity to choose me as your supervisor.

Why MBZUAI? MBZUAI is ranked 8th in the CS Ranking for NLP. MBZUAI features top faculty members in AI and Computer Science, and offers a very generous scholarship covering monthly tuition: (MSc: AED 15,500 and PhD: AED 17,500).

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Fajri Koto (Assistant Professor)
NLP Department, MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae