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 is a professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and scientific director of the Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG). He specialises in robotics, mechatronics and non-linear control engineering. He is a vice-chair of IFAC TC on Nonlinear Control Systems and IEEE CSS representative for IEEE Life Science Communities.

He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work is mainly focused on developing techniques and systems that are socially relevant. His projects and inventions are applied in the development of medical devices, the production of clean energy and mechanical engineering. He considers technically trained people to be a necessity for the manufacturing industry of the future.

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.

A 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.

Joga Dharma Setiawan is a Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro. He’s also the CEO of PT Len Industri, with rich working experience in the US, namely General Motors Corp (which now has become Rolls Royce Corp), AlliedSignal, and Beacon Power Corp.otors Corporation, AlliedSignal, and Beacon Power Corporation.

Among his researches in engineering and robotics, there are bionic hands, robotic sailboat, low-eart orbit satellite tracker, IoT Application with Long Range communication, and electric bus dynamic and control. While being an active member of several national research centers, he has also become the main researcher and lead Principal Investigators of Environmental Sensing Research Group, in the joint international research team with the MIT (MIT-Indonesia Research Alliance).

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.

She is a Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University. She also serves as the area chair for Electrical Engineering, Scientific Advisor of Singularity Energy, Inc, and Elastro Inc.

The goal of her research is to develop foundational learning and control tools to explore and exploit real-world system structures that can lead to reliable, efficient, and autonomous operation of these systems. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, integrating mathematical, computational, engineering, economic, and biological tools.

The current research focuses on the interplay between control and learning—such as model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, offline and online learning, diffusion models, scalable multiagent-learning, etc—and their applications to robotics, neuroscience, and emerging directions in agentic and physical AI for science and engineering.

She has received IFAC Thoma Medal, McDonald Mentoring Award, Donald P. Eckman Award, ONR YIP Award, AFOSR YIP Award, NSF CAREER Award, Harvard Climate Change Solution Fund, Harvard PSE Accelerator Award, along with other awards.