Robert Wijaya
PhD Student, SUTD in Singapore
News / Activities
2025
- 07/2025 Returned to university after a leave.
- 04/2025 One co-authored paper got accepted to ACL 2025 (main conference).
2024
- 12/2024 Submit a new preprint to arXiv.
- 10/2024 I am on leave for the next nine months.
- 09/2024 Visiting scholar → PhD student.
- 05/2024 I am now at SUTD for five months as a visiting scholar/researcher working on data-centric and efficient multimodal LLMs advised by Prof. Ngai-Man Cheung.
2023
- 12/2023 I have graduated with a Master's degree in Machine Learning and Computer Vision (MMLCV) from ANU.
- 07/2023 In semester 2, 2023 I enroll in four courses, they are COMP8604 Research Project, COMP8610 Computer Graphics, COMP8539 Adv. Topics in Computer Vision, and COMP8420 Neural Networks, Deep Learning, and Bio-Inspired Computing.
- 02/2023 In semester 1, 2023 I enroll in four courses, they are COMP8604 Research Project, COMP8600 Statistical Machine Learning, COMP6340 Networked Information Systems, and COMP8110 Managing Software Projects in a System Context
2022
- 11/2022 During this semester holiday (Nov'22 to Feb'23), I serve as a Research Intern (remote) at NUS-HCI Lab Singapore
- 08/2022 Held the role of student representative for COMP6670 Intro to Machine Learning.
- 07/2022 In semester 2, 2022 I enroll in four courses, they are COMP6710 Structured Programming, ENGN6627 Robotics, COMP6670 Intro to Machine Learning, and COMP8536 Advanced Topics in Deep Learning for Computer Vision.
- 03/2022 Held the role of student representative for two courses: Computer Vision ENGN6528, and Programming for Scientists COMP6730
- 02/2022 In semester 1, 2022 I will take four courses which are Programming for Scientists COMP6730, Professional Practice ENGN6250, Computer Vision ENGN6528, and Engineering Data Analytics ENGN8535.
- 01/2022 I will start my Master's degree in Machine Learning and Computer Vision (MMLCV) at the Australian National University in February 2022.
Short Bio
Robert is currently a PhD student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, advised by Prof. Ngai-Man Cheung. Previously, he received his Master's degree from the Australian National University (ANU). His research interests currently include computer vision, multimodal learning, and AI alignment.
Education
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D
Sep 2024 – 2029 (expected)
The Australian National University
Master of Science, M.S
Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
Research Experience
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Visiting Research
May 2024 – Oct 2024
Recent Works
2025
2024
Synth-Align: Improving Trustworthiness in Vision-Language Model with Synthetic Preference Data Alignment
Robert Wijaya, Ngoc-Bao Nguyen, Ngai-Man Cheung
arXiv preprint
arXiv | HuggingFace
Robert Wijaya, Ngoc-Bao Nguyen, Ngai-Man Cheung
arXiv preprint
arXiv | HuggingFace
Misc
- Australia Awards Scholarship recipient from Australia government, fully-funded scholarship to pursue a Master's degree in Australia.
- Completed ~24 MOOC courses, e.g. deep learning, data science, data analysis, machine learning (See the full list here).
- Leisure activities: swimming, cooking, reading books.