CV
Education
- PhD in Rehabilitation Science — University of Pittsburgh, 2024–present
- Supervised by Bambang Parmanto, PhD.
MEng in Information Technology — Gadjah Mada University, 2016
BSc in Information Technology Education — Yogyakarta State University, 2012
Research experience
- Graduate Student Researcher, School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, University of Pittsburgh — 2024–present
- PhD research on AI-enabled mHealth and AI-mediated behavioral health interventions — using generative AI and AI agents as ecological momentary interventions for individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions.
- Research Scientist, Health and Rehabilitation Informatics (HARI) Lab, University of Pittsburgh — 2023–2024
- Built the Caregiving Language Model (CaLM), a retrieval-augmented, fine-tuned language model grounded in a caregiving knowledge base, to give family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and related dementias a more reliable alternative to a general-purpose chatbot. Published in JMIR Formative Research (2024).
- Technical Support, Volunteer, IISE Diplomacy Lab, University of Pittsburgh — 2022–2023
- Built automatic keyword extraction for a corpus affiliated with the U.S. State Department, cutting the time and cost of producing consular-training keyword lists by about 80%.
Publications
- Aryoyudanta, B., Yuliana, M., Rachman, M., Setiawan, I.M.A. (2026). Night Shift Nerds at MEDIQA-SYNUR 2026: Pushing Small Large Language Model Capability for Clinical Observation Extraction and Normalization from Nurse Dictation using RLVR. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC 2026, 163–173. ACL Anthology
- Parmanto, B., Aryoyudanta, B., Soekinto, T.W., Setiawan, I.M.A., Wang, Y., Hu, H., Saptono, A., Choi, Y.K. (2024). A Reliable and Accessible Caregiving Language Model (CaLM) to Support Tools for Caregivers: Development and Evaluation Study. JMIR Formative Research, 8:e54633. DOI
- Aryoyudanta, B., Adji, T.B., Hidayah, I. (2016). Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Indonesian Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Co-Training Algorithm. 2016 International Seminar on Intelligent Technology and Its Applications (ISITIA), 7–12. Semantic Scholar
Under review: Setiawan, I.M.A., Yuliana, M., Aryoyudanta, B., Indradhirmaya, F.A., Patel, D., Beck, D.C., Saptono, A., Hu, H., Parmanto, B. Expert validation of AI-generated clinical assessment items for physician assistant certification: a multi-dimensional rubric and dual-reliability method. npj Digital Medicine (under review). Preprint
Skills
Programming: Python, Bash, JavaScript
ML / NLP: PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace Transformers & TRL; classical methods (Bayesian, SVM, KNN, K-Means, Markov models) through modern generative AI (RAG, RLVR/GRPO fine-tuning, autoregressive and vision-language models)
Teaching & service
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Health Information Management, SHRS, University of Pittsburgh — Fall 2025–present
- HI 2453 (Machine Learning in Health Science), HI 2021 (Practical Statistics & Programming Using R), HI 1454 (Data Science in Health Informatics), HI 2460 (Data Science & Machine Learning), HI 2022 (Introduction to Python for Health Informatics).