Khilda has been involved in public and private strategic projects for ethnicity and cultural settlement such as China Towns, Arabic Districts, thematic waterfront enclaves and other community-based infrastructure revitalisations engaged with citizen participation and communal design in Eastern Indonesia.

Khilda is a lecturer at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar and an urban designer in architecture and planning firms. Her research interests include urban design and planning, settlement upgrading, urban social studies, urban resilience.