Fadhil El Rizanda — AI Engineer

Fadhil El Rizanda

AI & Computer Vision · Machine Learning Engineer · Indonesia

"Exploring how machines perceive and reason — uniting vision, language, and intelligence into meaningful understanding."

About Me

Fadhil El Rizanda in AI research lab at ITB

I am an AI/ML Engineer and master's student at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, specializing in deep learning for multimodal perception and language understanding. My work spans computer vision, natural language processing, and knowledge-augmented AI systems, with a focus on vision-language modeling, crossmodal retrieval, and representation learning.

My current thesis at ITB's AI program focuses on Knowledge Distillation for 3D Object Detection, bridging high-performance multimodal models (camera + LiDAR) with real-time edge deployment — a core challenge in autonomous driving and robotics.

Education

  • M.Eng. in Informatics (Artificial Intelligence)
    Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) · 2024 – Present
    Thesis: Optimizing multimodal 3D object detection using camera and LiDAR with knowledge distillation.
  • B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Control & Electronics)
    Andalas University · 2019 – 2023 · GPA: 3.65 / 4.00
    Thesis: Vision-based vehicle safety system using YOLOv5 for real-time detection.

Professional Experience

May 2026 – Present

AI Engineer

Riset AI
  • Working full-time on cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions.
  • Implementing advanced multimodal and vision-language modeling architectures.

Riset AI

  • Conducting applied AI research and architecting machine learning frameworks for varied industrial and deep tech applications.
Dec 2025 – Present

Computer Vision Engineer

Autonoma
  • Developing robust computer vision pipelines for industrial use cases.
  • Focusing on real-time object detection and embedded edge deployment.

Autonoma

  • Designing sophisticated algorithms for Object Detection on Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Developing real-time perception pipelines integrating camera and LiDAR sensor modalities for comprehensive environmental modeling.
Apr 2026 – Present

Capstone Project Advisor

Coding Camp powered by DBS Foundation
  • Guided teams on end-to-end ML system design and deployment.
  • Mentored participants on AI fundamentals, experimentation, and error analysis methodology.
Mar 2023 – Apr 2023

Electrical & Instrumentation Intern

PT Semen Padang
  • Designed an ANN model to predict cement smoothness (MAE: 0.89, MSE: 0.75).
  • Evaluated models collaboratively with factory engineering staff.

Coding Camp powered by DBS Foundation

  • Advising student teams on end-to-end ML system design, rigorous dataset curation, model validation, and deployment strategies.

Machine Learning Instructor

Dec 2024 - Aug 2025

Dicoding DBS

  • Engineered and disseminated advanced ML curricula utilizing PyTorch and TensorFlow frameworks.
  • Supervised applied research projects with a focus on empirical experimentation and systematic error analysis.

Featured Projects

Alzheimer MRI classification using Swin Transformer
Transformers Medical Imaging

Alzheimer's Disease Stage Classification

Designed a pipeline comparing Swin Transformers vs CNNs for brain MRI classification. Swin-Base achieved 96.2% accuracy, outperforming baselines.

BEVFusion 3D object detection on CARLA simulator
3D Perception Autonomous Driving

BEVFusion on CARLA Simulator Data

Generated synchronized LiDAR + camera samples in CARLA. Trained BEVFusion and built a web dashboard for 3D bounding box visualization.

Graph-RAG medical chatbot for drug repositioning
LLM / NLP Knowledge Graph

Graph-RAG Chatbot for Drug Repositioning

Integrated PubMed embeddings, vector search, and Neo4j for semantic QA over biomedical entities and relations for explainable discovery.

YOLOv5 vehicle safety detection deployed on Raspberry Pi
Computer Vision Edge AI

Vision-Based Vehicle Safety System

Trained YOLOv5 on custom-labeled images for sharp-turn vehicle safety detection. Deployed on Raspberry Pi for real-time edge inference.

YOLOv4 chicken monitoring system on AWS
IoT Object Detection

Chicken Monitoring System

Implemented YOLOv4 on AWS for monitoring broiler chickens to reduce disease spread. Deployed end-to-end with a real-time web dashboard.

Smart Classroom IoT sensor dashboard in React
Web Development API Integration

Smart Classroom System

Collected sensor data through API, stored in MongoDB, and visualized via React.js front-end for future research analytics.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python
C++
MATLAB
JavaScript
SQL

ML / DL Frameworks

PyTorch
TensorFlow / Keras
Hugging Face
scikit-learn
OpenCV

AI Domains & Specializations

3D Object Detection
Knowledge Distillation
Vision Transformers
RAG Systems / LLMs
Multimodal Retrieval
Pose Estimation

MLOps & Tools

Git
Docker
Weights & Biases
AWS / Azure
ROS
Neo4j