
NicoValerianMarcello.
I build things that shouldn't work on a student budget — RAG pipelines, Scopus-indexed research, and the occasional Balatro coach. Currently pretending to understand Korean at Korea University.

About / me

Hi, I'm Nico. I write code at 2am because the bug won't fix itself, and I'm allergic to boring UI.
I'm a Computer Science student at BINUS University, currently on Spring 2026 exchange at Korea University. My work spans full-stack engineering and applied ML — from AI-powered study tools and LLM benchmarks for low-resource languages, to full-stack apps that actually ship to real users.
I care about two things: interfaces that feel alive, and systems that do something genuinely useful. The rest is noise.
Select / a project






Where I've / been
- Advanced ML coursework; cross-cultural research collaboration.
- One of four students selected from BINUS for the exchange program.

- Directed 4 staff and 6 IT tutors across 5 tracks (UI/UX, FE, BE, Java, C) — 11 classes, 140+ students.
- Launched ML track, expanding offerings from 5 to 6 core subjects.
- Organised company visit program for 50+ students.

- Guided mentees across 25+ tracked sessions; cohort averaged up to 18% GPA improvement within a year.

- Developed curriculum modules for Backend and Java tracks.
- Evaluated 15+ tutor candidates; completed LDP producing a semester-long operational roadmap.

Certified / things
The / toolkit
[FE] Frontend
[BE] Backend
[AI] AI & ML
[OPS] Infra & Tools
Writing /& research
How I Built a RAG Pipeline That Actually Ships
A production postmortem on embeddings, chunking strategies, and the three weeks I spent fighting pgvector index configs — and what building Studium taught me when I had to do it all over again for Balatro Coach.
Understanding Evolving Sentiment Dynamics in Indonesian Disaster-Related Tweets
Fine-tuning IndoBERT for aspect-sentiment analysis on 4,506 disaster tweets — uncovering how public sentiment toward Indonesian crises shifts over time, and what that tells authorities about unmet needs.
Let's build
something / weird.
Open to summer '26 internships, research collaborations, and interesting projects. Bonus points if it involves embeddings, strange UIs, or reasons to stay up past 3am.