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Prof. Dr. Suyanto is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the current Rector of Telkom University. He holds degrees in Informatics Engineering (Telkom University), Complex Adaptive Systems (Chalmers University, Sweden), and Computer Science (Universitas Gadjah Mada).
With over 100 international publications and an h-index of 23, he is recognized globally for his contributions to AI, machine learning, swarm intelligence, and computational linguistics. He is the creator of the Komodo Mlipir Algorithm (KMA), a novel optimization method inspired by natural behavior and cultural philosophy.
Listed among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University, Prof. Suyanto is also an inventor, educator, and academic leader. His current focus is on advancing research, innovation, and entrepreneurial transformation in higher education.
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Nancy F. Chen received her Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard in 2011, conducting research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in multilingual speech processing. She currently leads research in conversational AI and natural language generation at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore, with applications in education, healthcare, journalism, and defense. Her team’s speech evaluation technology was deployed by Singapore’s Ministry of Education to support home-based learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She led a cross-continental team on low-resource spoken language processing that ranked among the top performers in the NIST Open Keyword Search Evaluations (2013–2016). Dr. Chen is the recipient of numerous honors including the 2025 ISCA Fellow, Singapore 100 Women in Tech (2021), Best Paper Awards at SIGDIAL and APSIPA, and the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellowship. She serves as an ISCA Board Member (2021–2025), Program Chair of ICLR 2023, and has held editorial roles in several top journals in speech and language processing.
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