Experience

Full experience.

Where I work now, where I've worked before, and the decade of industry work that came before the doctorate. The academic record is separate; the publications live on the research page.

Current

PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk

Head of Macroeconomic and Financial Research

Jakarta, Indonesia

Lead the bank's macroeconomic and financial-markets research function.

  • Produce multi-horizon projections for the BI-Rate, USD/IDR, 1/5/10-year SBN yields, the Fed Funds Rate, Term SOFR and USTs, across baseline, moderate and worst-case scenarios.
  • Build the macro-financial stress-testing frame behind Enterprise Risk Management assumptions, including cross-variable sensitivity propagation and an audit trail on every override.
  • Apply time-series econometrics (ARIMA, VAR/VECM, GARCH/EGARCH, Nelson-Siegel, Taylor rule), validated by walk-forward backtesting.
  • Write the ALCO assumption packs and the periodic research notes that go to management and the Board.
  • Designed and built the desk's multi-agent AI research platform end to end, from the schema-intelligence database through the specialist agents to production scheduling, on Python/Flask, SQL Server, Docker and nginx.

Universitas Padjadjaran

Lecturer and Researcher

Faculty of Economics and Business · Bandung, Indonesia

Teach across economics and finance: Islamic banking and Islamic economics, general economics and finance, data science and IT-related subjects, and management and business courses including marketing.

  • Supervise student research and examine undergraduate theses.
  • Keep an independent research agenda across tourism and hospitality, macroeconomics and financial markets, and Islamic finance.

Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN)

Member, Islamic Finance Development

Islamic Economy Board · Jakarta

Contribute to the board's Islamic finance development agenda, bringing the bank-side and academic views into the same room.

Previously

University of Surrey

Associate Lecturer

School of Hospitality and Tourism Management · Guildford, United Kingdom

Taught within the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management alongside doctoral and post-doctoral research.

Global Policy House

Lead Researcher, Blockchain and CBDC

United Kingdom

Led the research line on blockchain and central bank digital currency, and its policy implications.

University of Surrey

Doctoral Researcher

School of Hospitality and Tourism Management · member of the iHerd research team

Doctoral research on the adoption of blockchain-based sharing economy platforms in accommodation, using a sequential mixed-methods design: PRISMA systematic review, grounded theory from focus group discussions, then an experiment analysed with multigroup analysis.

  • All three studies published in international journals: two Elsevier Q1, one Taylor & Francis Q1.
  • Supervised by Prof. Iis Tussyadiah and Dr Albert N. Kimbu; viva examiners Prof. Xiao Ma and Prof. Anita Eves.

Earlier career

IT consulting, tourism and banking

Roughly a decade in industry

Indonesia

The grounding for a practice that treats building systems and researching them as the same job.

Education

University of Surrey

PhD, degree awarded 29 February 2024

School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences · Guildford, United Kingdom

Thesis: Blockchain-based Sharing Economy. A PhD by publication comprising three studies, all published in international journals (two Elsevier Q1, one Taylor & Francis Q1). Manuscript submitted 11 April 2023.

  • Supervisors: Prof. Iis Tussyadiah and Dr Albert N. Kimbu.

MSc in Finance and M.Par in Tourism

Master's degrees

Awards & recognition

Expedia Group × ENTER2020 Data Science Competition

Winner, Best Use of Secondary Data

IFITT · ENTER2020 International eTourism Conference, University of Surrey · January 2020

Built a machine-learning solution identifying and ranking US accommodation clusters by their positive impact on local communities, combining 58 variables from Expedia Group, the US Census Bureau, the FBI and the US Bureau of Justice Statistics.

  • Other category winners came from the University of Florida, Virginia Tech and Barclays.

Memberships

IFITT

Member since 2020

International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism, Vienna

iHerd research team

Member

School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey

Research identifiers

The peer-reviewed record lives on the research page.