Derry Wijaya

Derry Wijaya is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Data Science Program at Monash University Indonesia. She also co-directs the Monash Data and Democracy Research Hub, focusing on analyzing data's impact on democracy. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Department of Computer Science. Her research spans multilingual NLP, low-resource language technologies, and combating AI-driven misinformation.

Education:

• PhD in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University (2013)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (2013–2015)
• Bachelor's & Master's in Computing, National University of Singapore

Research Interests:

• Improving language model performance via self-consistency and reasoning
• Analysis of bias, toxicity, and framing in AI outputs
• Preservation of Indonesian indigenous scripts and languages
• Development of tools like OpenFraming AI for multilingual framing analysis

Recent Work Trends: Her publications (2023–2025) emphasize ethical AI, low-resource language solutions, and social media analysis. Notable contributions include frameworks for metric calibration (MetaMetrics), debiasing generative models, and surveys on Indonesian language technology needs.

Awards & Roles:

• Fulbright Scholarship recipient
• Serves on program committees for ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, and ICLR
• Co-created OpenFraming AI for multilingual framing analysis

Grants & Labs: Leads the Monash Data and Democracy Hub, focusing on tech's societal impact. Active in grant-funded projects preserving Indonesia's linguistic heritage through digitization efforts.