Guest Talk "Laying the Foundation for AI in Education at ITB: From Governance to Learning Innovation"
Dr. Ayu Purwarianti
Date/Time: 28.04.2026, 17:00
Location: D2.0.030
Abstract
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, has significantly influenced teaching and learning practices in higher education. For universities, this development presents both opportunities and challenges: while AI opens new possibilities for improving educational processes, it also raises concerns regarding ethics, academic integrity, and institutional readiness. In response to these developments, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) has begun preparing the foundation for a more systematic and responsible adoption of AI in education. This talk will share ITB’s ongoing efforts in building the institutional groundwork for AI integration within its educational ecosystem. Initial steps include the formulation of institutional guidelines for the use of generative AI in academic activities, covering both students and lecturers, as well as the incorporation of AI usage policies into course syllabi. In addition, ITB has introduced a compulsory Data and AI Literacy course for all students to ensure that graduates possess not only technical understanding of AI, but also awareness of ethical considerations and responsible use of the technology. Alongside these governance and literacy initiatives, ITB is also exploring several AI-driven educational innovations through ongoing research projects. These include the development of intelligent tutoring systems for language learning in low-resource settings, agentic AI based chatbots to support academic administrative services such as study planning, automatic speech recognition technology to improve accessibility for hearing-impaired students during lectures, and text-to-speech systems to support visually impaired students in examination settings. Although many of these initiatives are still under development, together they reflect ITB’s broader vision of preparing for an AI-enabled educational future. This talk discusses how institutional governance, curriculum development, and technological innovation can be developed in parallel as part of a long-term strategy toward responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI adoption in higher education.
Bio
Ayu Purwarianti earned her PhD from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 2007, specializing in Natural Language Processing with a dissertation on cross-lingual question answering systems. She is currently a faculty member at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), where she also completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Her research focuses primarily on Indonesian Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence, with more than 200 publications indexed by Scopus, an h-index of 26, and over 4000 citations. Throughout her academic career, she has held several leadership positions at ITB, including Head of the Undergraduate Program in Informatics/Computer Science (2012–2015), Head of the Doctoral Program in Electrical Engineering and Informatics (2016–2020), Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Center at ITB (2019–2024), and currently serves as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at ITB. She is also the Vice Chair of ITB’s Team for AI in Education Transformation. Beyond academia, she has actively contributed to national and international professional organizations, including serving as Chair of the Indonesian Association for Computational Linguistics and IEEE Education Chapter Indonesia Section. She is also a member of the Indonesian Accreditation Board of Engineering Education (IABEE) and was the founder of Prosa.ai, an Indonesian AI startup, from 2018 to 2024.