Departemen Teknologi Industri Pertanian
Fakultas Teknologi Pertanian
IPB University
Yandra Arkeman is a Professor in Agroindustrial Technology with research interests in Computational Intelligence and Advanced Computing Technology. He earned a PhD in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with dissertation on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems using Genetic Algorithms from University of South Australia (2000). Then he conducted his first post-Doctoral research at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, for 2 years (2004-2006) and his second post-Doctoral research at Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, for 4 months (2009/2010). His biography is included in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 1998/1999 by Marquis Publication, USA
He had a Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Technology from University of South Australia with the thesis on Application of Artificial Intelligence for Flexible Manufacturing Systems Design. He obtained his first degree in Agroindustrial Technology from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia, with the “skripsi” (undergraduate thesis) on CAQ (Computer Aided Quality).
Since 2008, he also works at Surfactant and Bioenergy Research Center (SBRC) at IPB, as a researcher on bioenergy sustainability and climate change. He was also one of the founders of Indonesian Coconut Council (Dewan Kelapa Indonesia) in 2008. In March 2014, he established CEALS (Center of Excellence for Agroindustrial Logistics and Supply Chain Management) and in 2017 he established another research group namely BRAIN (Blockchain, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Networks) and use brain.ipb.ac.id as the web address.