About

Surabaya

I'm from Surabaya, Indonesia. I studied Informatics Engineering at the University of Surabaya, where I was a teaching assistant for programming and web courses, tutored university students in C#, served as vice president of a student organization for advertising and entrepreneurship, and worked as a liaison officer for visiting university presidents at an international conference. I graduated summa cum laude as best graduate of the department, then spent half a year as an Android developer before leaving for Korea.

Busan

In 2019 I moved to Busan for my M.Sc. and then Ph.D. at Dongseo University, working with Prof. Suk-Ho Lee on generative models for image restoration, GANs during Master, and diffusion during Ph.D. Alongside the research I started a YouTube channel, Indra in Korea, about international student life and travel in Korea, scripting, filming, and editing everything myself, and spent a stint as an SNS supporter for the Busan Foundation for International Cooperation. In summer 2021 I joined a Hansung University study as a field surveyor and translator, visiting the islands of Gaeya, Bogil, and Nohwa to interview Indonesian and East Timorese laborers about their working and living conditions and co-write the reports. In 2022 a paper of mine won a best-paper award at IEEE ICCE-Asia; in 2024 I finished the Ph.D.

Seoul

After graduating I moved to Seoul and into industry: first over a year at STANS building real-time computer-vision models for intelligent CCTV, some of which were deployed at Seoul subway stations, then Laputa, AI subsidiary of the educational book publisher Sapyoung, where I build an LLM-based multimodal Q&A system over Korean textbooks. Industry taught me to ship models, and also that research is where I want to build my career, which is why I run an independent research project on vision–language models in the evenings and am looking for a postdoctoral position.

I speak Indonesian (native), English (IELTS 8.0), and Korean (KIIP Level 5). I also give talks for the Indonesian student and professional community in Korea.