Vitae

Academic experience

• Associate Professor, Data Science Department, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, November 2021 to Present
• Assistant Professor, Design and Specialised Business Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), April 2017 to November 2021, Singapore.
• Visiting Professor, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Summer University Program, 27 July – 3 August 2019, Denmark.
• Adjunct Faculty/Tutor, UQ Business School, the University of Queensland, February 2013 – June 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Research Assistant, UQ Business School, the University of Queensland, August 2013 – May 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Research Assistant, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, the University of Queensland, * April 2016 – May 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Education

• Ph.D in Business Information Systems, UQ Business School, the University of Queensland, 2016
• M.Sc in Accounting Information Systems, Gadjah Mada University, 2009
• B.Ec in Accounting, Tanjungpura University, 2003.

Research Grants

I have secured multiple grants from the Singapore Government (SGD 307,843.00 research grant. 20% – 30% of the grant was externally funded by industry and external institutions) and Australia Funding Institutions and Indonesian Companies (AUD 71, 914.00) in data science and analytics and digital technologies area. The list is as follows:

• Monash Seed Grant (PI) in collaboration with Action Lab, Monash University, and an Indonesian Fintech Company. Research Team: Dr. M Risqi Saputra, Dr. Sarah Gultom. Fintech for Social Impact: Improving Fintech Lending Capability for Financial Inclusion and Sustainability in Indonesia. Amount: AUD 18,000.00 (Aug 2022 - July 2023).
• Whyte Fund, Monash University (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Misita Anwar (PI). Understanding Farmers’ Record-Keeping Practice To Support Decision Making Using Data-Driven Farming In Indonesia, Amount AUD 43,914.00 (August 2022 to July 2023).
• SIT Ignition Grant in collaboration with Home Team Science & Technology Agency; Allen & Gledhill LLP; University of Piraeus; and APWG.eu (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Purnima Murali Mohan (PI), and Dr. Peter Loh Kok Keong. An Online Blockchain Smart Contract Vulnerability Scanner, Amount SGD 99,200.00 (2021-2021)
• SIT Ignition Grant in collaboration with Crowdo Holdings Pte, Ltd. (Primary Investigator). Research Team: Co-PI Dr. Pearpilai Jutasompakorn, Dr. Lee Hwee Hoon, and Dr. Alex Qiang Chen. Crowdfunding Investors’ Behaviour: Characteristics and Decision Making, Amount: SGD 88,400.00 (2019 - 2021).
• SIT Ignition Grant in collaboration with HANDS Enterprise Solutions, Singapore (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Michelle Zou Junqi (PI), Dr. Kevin Ow Yong Keng. Deployment of Data Analytics Models for Workforce and Project Management, Amount: SGD 92,043.00. (2019 - 2021).
• SIT Seed Grant in collaboration with Crowdo Holdings Pte, Ltd. (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Pearpilai Jutasompakorn (PI), and Dr. Vivek Balachandran. P2P and Crowdfunding: Credit score, Probability of Default Models and Machine Learning, Amount: SGD 4,920.00 (2019 - 2020).
• SIT Seed Grant in collaboration with Baker Tilly Singapore (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Lim Chu Yeong (PI), Dr. Lu Liming, and Ms Wong Shin Ren. Scheduling System in an Accountancy and Business Advisory Firm, Amount: SGD 5,280.00 (2018 - 2019).
• SIT Ignition Grant in collaboration with RSM Singapore & Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) (Co-PI). Research Team: Dr. Koh Sze Kee (PI), Dr. Lee Hwee Hoon, and Dr. Desi Arisandi. Data Analytics Adoption for Singapore Small Medium Enterprises, Amount: SGD 18,000.00 (2018 - 2020).

Professional Membership

• Information Systems Audit and Control Association/ISACA. (2013-present).
• Adult Education Professionalisation - Specialist Adult Educator (Curriculum Development) - Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore (2018 - present).
• Association for Information Systems (2013-present).
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (2016-present).
• The Indonesian Institute of Accountants (2012-present).
• American Accounting Association (2015-2018).

Honors/Awards

• Best Presenter at UQ Business School Research Students’ Colloquium (July 2014).
• UQ Business School PhD Research, Travel Grant, & Scholarship (2012 to 2014). Amount: AUD 21,000
• Dean’s Award for Excellence - the University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (April 2010).
• Dean’s Award for Excellence - the University of Tanjungpura, Indonesia (January 2004).

Academic Services

• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2022 - present).

• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Information Systems (2023 - present).

• Ad-hoc Journal Reviewer of Information & Management (2020, 2021, 2022); the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020; 2022); IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management (2021); Information Systems Frontier (2022); Electronic Commerce Research (2022); Journal of Emerging Technology in Accounting (2022); New Media and Society (2021); Accounting Horizons (2021); Journal of Information Systems (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022); the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (2014, 2015); Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2020, 2021, 2022); Asian Accounting Review (2022); PLoS ONE (2022); The CASE Journal (2020); Journal of System and Information Technology (2022); Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (2020, 2021).

• Reviewer of the Journal Special Issues: the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems titled ‘Blockchain: Using Accounting Skepticism to See Beyond the Hype’, (2019) ; Journal of Information Systems titled ‘Implications of Cybersecurity on Accounting Information’, 2018.

• Scientific Committee Member. International Conference of the Journal of Information Systems, 2021.

• Ad-hoc Conferences Reviewer: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (2017, 2019, 2021); The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) (2021, 2022); 11th University of Waterloo Centre for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance Symposium (2019); American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, August 5-9, 2017; American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting and Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting, New York, USA, August 6-10, 2016; 19th Accounting National Symposium (Simposium Nasional Akuntansi), Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, August 24-27, 2016; the 5th Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on Accounting Information Systems, 2013, Milan, Italy, 15-18 December 2013; Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Doctoral Consortium, Jeju Island, South Korea, June 18-22, 2013.

• Associate Editor, Enterprise Systems and Business Process Management, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Dubai, UAE, 2021

• Associate Editor, Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Xian, China, 2019.

• Big Accounting Data mini-track co-chair & Reviewer. American Conference on Information Systems, Cancun, Mexico, 2019.

• Grant Reviewer of SIT Advancement for Learning and Teaching Grant, 2017, 2018.

• Review Coordinator of the 22nd American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Diego, California, USA, August 11-13, 2016.

• Reviewer (Program Committee) for the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Business Intelligence track, Melbourne, Australia, December 4-6, 2013.

Technical skills

• Programming Language: Python and R
• Robotic Process Automation: UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate
• Data Preparation and Visualization: Alteryx Designer, Tableau Prep, Open Refine, Power BI, Tableau Desktop.
• Enterprise Resource Planning: SAP Hana.
• Statistical Packages: SmartPLS, SPSS, and R Programming.
• Virtual Learning Applications: Blackboard, Adobe Connect, Moodle, and Edmodo.
• Analytics Software: Tableau, PowerBI. Leximancer, and NVivo.
• Audit Analytics: Caseware IDEA, and Mindbridge Ai.
• Machine Learning: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, BigML, and Python.
• Research Application: Qualtrics, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Mendeley, and EndNote.
• Database Application: MySQL, Oracle SQL Developer, MS Access, and SQLite.
• Miscellaneous: Advanced Spreadsheet Analysis.