Plenary Lectures

Brian Yuliarto has extensive experience in research, innovation, and higher education institutional management, with expertise in nanomaterials for biosensor, energy, and solar PV applications.

Prior to his appointment as the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, he served as Vice Rector for Research and Innovation at ITB (2025), the Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Technology at ITB (2020–2025), and leading ITB’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Center (2018–2020).

Named as the Top 1 Researcher in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Indonesia, he has published hundreds of scientific papers, cited in thousands, and collected numerous prestigious recognitions, such as the 2024 Habibie Prize in engineering, ITB’s Distinguished Lecturer in Science and Technology (2017), and Best Researcher at ITB (2021). Moreover, he has been consistently listed in Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, and 2024), reaffirming his status as one of the most influential scientists globally.

Bayu Jayawardhana received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia, in 2000, the M.Eng. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 2006. He is currently the Scientific Director of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control and the Scientific Director of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen. He is also the Director of the Groningen Engineering Center, University of Groningen, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering. Prof. Jayawardhana is a Vice-Chair for Publications of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Control Systems.

His main research interests are nonlinear systems analysis and control design, including the stability of nonlinear systems with hysteresis, contraction methods, switched systems, neural control systems, and distributed control systems. He also works on the application of these methods to high-tech systems, including optomechatronic systems, multi-robot systems, flexible manufacturing systems, intelligent transportation and logistics systems, wastewater treatment plants, and systems biology.

Bambang Riyanto Trilaksono is a lecturer at School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Vice Director of Research, Innovation and Partnership, leading figure of Future Scientific Commission, and founder of Artificial Intelligence Center of Institut Teknologi Bandung. His research interests include control systems, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He holds patent rights of various industrial designs and has been actively involved in the global scene as editorial board members of international journals, such as Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (Emerald), International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Journal of ICT Research and Applications, and Indonesia Internetworking Journal.

As former member of the steering committee of Asian Control Association, he is widely respected for his innovative contributions to the field, particularly in advancing Indonesia's technological capabilities and fostering collaborations between academia and industry. He’s a co-founder of an AI development startup ( www.riset.ai) , a member of National Strategic Team of Artificial Intelligence, and a holder of Toray Science & Technology Award (2004). He also led the National Taskforce Team of Research and Innovation on Artificial Intelligence for Covid Detection (2020). Currently, he has been leading a research and innovation team of underwater autonomous vehicle development in collaboration with BMKG and BIN, as well as autonomous vehicle/tram development with Artificial Intelligence (Rispro-LPDP), with INKA company.

Sigit Puji Santosa holds a doctoral degree in Computational Structural Mechanics since 1999 and a title of Chief Professional Engineer, established by the Indonesian Professional Engineer in 2017. His experience had grown on a global scale, with a professional career in the automotive field in the USA for 15 years where he designed signature vehicles such as Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and Cadillac DTS.

After his return to Indonesia, he has been actively involved in various technological innovations of the nation’s interest. Among his renowned responsibilities are operational vehicles called Maung and Garuda that he developed as the leader of Pindad. Under his leadership, Pindad has launched dozens of ammunition and munitions technology. He was also responsible for the founding of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation Technology (NCSTT) and the development of ITB Innovation Park Summarecon.

As the CTO of Danantara, he’s responsible for encouraging the development of the strategic investment and national business sector surrounding national innovation, digital, startups, and downstreaming technology.

Guang-Ren Duan received his Ph.D. degree in Control Systems Sciences from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China, in 1989. After a two-year post-doctoral experience at the same university, he became professor of control systems theory at that university in 1991. From December 1996 to October 2002, he visited the University of Hull, the University of Sheffield, and also the Queen's University of Belfast, UK. He is the founder and presently the Honorary Director of the Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology. Recently, he has also established the Center for Control Science and Technology at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and is serving as the dean for the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing at SUSTech. He is a Member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and has served as Vice President of the Control Theory and Applications Committee, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and Associate Editor of a few international journals. His main research interests include fully actuated system theories for nonlinear systems, parametric control systems design, descriptor systems, spacecraft control and magnetic bearing control, and he has published 5 books and over 450 SCI indexed publications. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of CAA, IEEE and IET.

Karl Henrik Johansson is Director of Digital Futures and Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He received MSc and PhD degrees from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Advanced Studies Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests are in networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, and applications in transportation, energy, and automation systems.hnology, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the European Control Association Council. He is past Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. He has been on the Editorial Boards of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IET Control Theory and Applications. He is currently a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and Associate Editor of European Journal of Control. He was the General Chair of the ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2010 in Stockholm and IPC Chair of many conferences. He received the Best Application Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2015, the Best Theory Paper Award of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation 2014, and the Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems 2009. In 2009 he was awarded Wallenberg Scholar, as one of the first ten scholars from all sciences, by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In 2017 he received a Distinguished Professor Grant from the Swedish Research Council. He was awarded Future Research Leader from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 2005. He received the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC in 1996 and the Peccei Award from the International Institute of System Analysis, Austria, in 1993. He was granted Young Researcher Awards from Scania in 1996 and from Ericsson in 1998 and 1999. He is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Fellow of the IEEE, and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Hideaki Ishii received the M.Eng. degree in applied systems science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2002. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, from 2001 to 2004, and a Research Associate with the Department of Information Physics and Computing, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, from 2004 to 2007. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. His research interests are in networked control systems, multiagent systems, cyber security of power systems, and distributed and probabilistic algorithms.

Dr. Ishii has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters and the Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems and previously for Automatica, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He is the Chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee on Systems and Signals since 2017. He received the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award in 2015. He is an IEEE Fellow.