CV

Education, research and work experience, and awards. A PDF version is available from the button on the right.

General Information

Full Name Muhammad Cendekia Airlangga
Affiliation Department of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI
Research Interests Causality, Interpretability, Low-resource NLP

Education

  • 2026 - now
    PhD in Natural Language Processing
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Advisor - Prof. Kentaro Inui
  • 2026
    MSc in Natural Language Processing
    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • Thesis on vision-language model interpretability
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
    Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia
    • Cum laude

Experience

  • May - Jul 2025
    Research Intern
    Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN AIP, Japan
  • Jul - Nov 2023
    AI Engineer Intern
    Selamat Pagi Korea
  • Aug - Oct 2022
    Data Science Trainee
    Jakarta Smart City, Indonesia
  • Apr - Aug 2022
    Research Intern
    Data Science and Machine Learning Research Laboratory, KMITL, Thailand
  • 2021 - 2022
    Laboratory Assistant
    System and Cybernetics Laboratory, ITS Surabaya
  • 2019 - 2020
    Teaching Assistant, Mathematics I and II
    ITS Surabaya

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • Best Paper Award, 9th WiNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2025
  • 2021
    • Gold Medal, Poster Category, National Student Scientific Week (PIMNAS), Ministry of Education
    • Bangkit Program Awardee, Google Indonesia
  • 2019
    • Student Creativity Program (PKM), fully funded, Ministry of Education