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Yusra Habibi

Long-tenured contributor · Bali anchor steward

Based in Bali
Node-cell polya-25
ORCID 0000-8689-7048-0025

Research

Yusra co-authored the federated scheduler paper and now serves as the steward of the lab's newest physical anchor in Ubud, Bali. The Bali anchor was approved through the standard signed-proposal process in late 2025; Yusra's term as steward runs through 2027-Q2, after which a re-vote determines whether the anchor continues.

Her research interests centre on the governance side of agentic engineering — how the federated scheduler interacts with cell-level autonomy, how cells should request capacity in a way that surfaces honest urgency rather than capacity-hoarding, and what the operational design choices reveal about the lab's structural commitments.

She moved from Singapore to Bali in 2025 in part to take the anchor stewardship and in part because the move made the lab's Indonesian contributor pool reachable in person for the first time. She is the lab's primary liaison with the Jakarta compute operator.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, National University of Singapore, 2016. Undergraduate at Bandung Institute of Technology.

Prior to alphabell: NUS; Wayfarer Institute; an Indonesian government AI strategy advisor team (part-time, 2020-2022).

Selected publications

Full publications index →

Recent talks

  • The Bali anchor — eighteen months later, alphabell internal post 2026 (forthcoming)
  • Designing for asynchronous federations, OSDI 2025
Working with

Yusra is currently part of node-cell polya-25, working under the Agentic engineering research axis. The cell is open to substantive correspondence from researchers working on adjacent problems; route requests through polya-25@alphabell.com or directly to Yusra at yusra-habibi@alphabell.com.