Indonesia Section
Riri Fitri Sari became an IEEE member in 1994 and has been actively contributing as an IEEE volunteer from that year onwards when she helped the committee of the APCC 1994 hosted by the IEEE Indonesia Section. She served in the executive committee of the Indonesian Section in various positions. In 2011 till date, Riri Fitri Sari has served as the Women in Engineering Affinity Group Coordinator for Indonesia Section.
During the 2012 R10 Meeting in Calcutta, India, Riri Fitri Sari and Agnes Irwanti from Indonesia were both selected for the WIE R10 most inspiring engineer award. The 27 years that she has spent as an IEEE member, have made a significant impact on her professional as well as personal life.
Prof. Dr. Riri Fitri Sari is currently working as a tenure track professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Universitas Indonesia. Between 2006 and 2014, she supported the Universitas Indonesia Rector as the Director of Information Technology (Chief Information Officer), which required her to lead the infrastructure and application system development towards the university’s digital transformation. She led the university of Indonesia team to win the Indonesia Tesca Award for being a smart campus. She also led the Universitas Indonesia collaboration with several industries such as Huawei technology who donated the CDMA EVDO system for training purposes in 2007. She was a tenure track Professor in computer engineering, in which she led her research group in protocol engineering, computer network, IoT, and Blockchain technology.
Her volunteering experience to encourage the young generation to be attracted to STEM is also in line with her position as the President of Indonesia Science Project Olympiad (ISPO), since 2012. She chaired the board of Jury to encourage high school students to love STEM through science projects and to present their work at the science fairs. She also served as a judge in many national ICT & award competitions such as Indonesia best CIO, Indonesia best learning organization, as well as selection for overseas scholarships and research grants. These activities are mutually aligned, thus enabling her to anticipate the adoption of new technology based on the current real condition in the society and promote STEM education.
In 2020, the IEEE Indonesia Section WIE affinity group has won the IEEE global humanitarian technology grant. This program, which is part of the humanitarian technology for Covid-19 pandemic initiative, was initiated by Dewi Liliana and Nur Afny, involved strategic partnership with some women against disruptive information (WADI) associations to campaign and conduct Training of Trainers for “Combating Misinformation”.
Another major and challenging worldwide initiative led by Riri Fitri Sari is the UI GreenMetric World University rankings, which ranked 912 universities from 84 countries, and became the first world university rankings on sustainability. She worked with the UI GreenMetric member universities to evaluate and document their effort to build a green and smart campus as well as other UI GreenMetric Indicators such as built smart buildings and the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM). She and her team have written books on “The making of UI GreenMetric” (2019) and “The making of UI GreenMetric Network”, in addition to various research publications on Information Technology deployment in society with state-of-the-art approach.