Heri Kuswanto, Ph.D.

Heri Kuswanto is a professor in statistics at the Faculty of Science and Data Analytics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Indonesia. He is also an active researcher at the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Climate Change ITS. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2009 from Leibniz Hannover University-Germany in statistics and worked as a postdoctoral research associate in 2010 at Laval University, Canada. Kuswanto has been appointed as the director of the graduate program and academic development at ITS since 2020. He is also a fellow of the Indonesian Young Science Academy. His main research interests include statistical downscaling, computational statistics (machine learning), time series econometrics, weather forecasting and solar radiation management. His current works include of investigating solar radiation management’s impact on extreme climate over the Indonesian Maritime Continent and Southeast Asia.