Patrick Amadeus Irawan | Singapore Management University

About Me

I am a Research Engineer at SMU 🇸🇬, working under the supervision of Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo. My current research work lies at the intersection of multilingual and multimodal learning.
Starting this fall, I will begin my PhD at MBZUAI 🇦🇪, where I plan to focus on multimodal representation learning, particularly in vision-language interaction.
Previously, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in CS from Institut Teknologi Bandung, where I worked under Prof. Ayu Purwarianti on explainable multimodal synthetic data generation. Aside from research, I also do AI Engineering for various use cases. You can see my other experiences here.

At the moment, I often explore the following topics, ordered by the magnitude of interest and experience:

Multimodal Learning/Alignment: VLMs, multimodal alignment, efficient multimodal architectures, agentic/multimodal RAG.
Multilingual Alignment: Language alignment, language taxonomy, low-resource alignment, domain-specific benchmarking.
Reasoning Architectures: Advanced decoding strategies, efficient reasoning, hallucination mitigation.

[May. 2025] DataRubrics is now on arXiv! We propose a unified scorecard to evaluate data quality on multi-faceted metrics.
[Apr. 2025] WorldCuisines receives Best Theme Paper award at NAACL 2025! 🎉🌏🍽️
[Mar. 2025] Admitted to the Fall 2025 cohort of the MBZUAI PhD program in NLP! 🇦🇪📚
[Jan. 2025] WorldCuisines and ProxyLM are accepted to NAACL 2025 🇺🇸 🎖️
[Nov. 2024] My first first-author paper, a VL synthetic data generation framework, is accepted to COLING 2025 🎉
[Oct. 2024] WorldCuisines, the largest multicultural VL food benchmark, is released. Honored to co-lead the project 🥘
[Sep. 2024] SEACrowd is accepted to EMNLP 2024! 🇺🇸

2025

Datasheets Aren't Enough: DataRubrics for Automated Quality Metrics and Accountability

Genta Indra Winata, David Anugraha, Emmy Liu, Alham Fikri Aji, Shou-Yi Hung, Aditya Parashar, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, and others

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2024

Research Engineer @ Singapore Management University (2025 - Now)
Research Engineer Intern @ ai&you (2024 -2024)
Data Scientist Intern @ Supertype (2023 - 2023)
Software Engineer Intern @ Blibli (2022 - 2022)
Software Engineer Intern @ Ruangguru (2022 - 2022)