Ary Setijadi Prihatmanto is an associate professor at Sekolah Tinggi Elektro dan Informatika Institut Teknologi Bandung (STEI ITB). He finished Doctoral Program on Applied Informatics at Johannes Kepler University of Linz (2006), Master of Electronic Engineering (1998) and Bachelor of Electronic Engineering (1995) at ITB. He is also Director of Pusat Penelitian Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi ITB (2015-present), an expert of Southeast Asian Ministry of Education on Open Learning Center (SEAMOLEC) (2015), and Director of Indonesia Digital Media Forum (2013-2015).