Saturday (August 6th), University of Indonesia Chancellor Prof. Ari Kuncoro, S.E., M.A., Ph.D., inaugurated two permanent professors at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia (FMIPA UI) online.

The two professors are Prof. Alhadi Bustamam, M.Kom., Ph.D. as a Permanent Professor of FMIPA UI in the field of Computational Mathematics, and Prof. Dr. Titin Siswantining, D.E.A. as a Permanent Professor of FMIPA UI in the field of Statistics.

This ceremony was also held live in the Sinarmas Hall of the Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory Building of FMIPA UI – PT Pertamina (Persero), UI Campus, and was also attended by the Head of the Central Statistics Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (KBPS RI) Mr. Margo Yuwono, the families of each of the inaugurated FMIPA UI Professors, leaders within the FMIPA UI environment, and lecturers of the Department of Mathematics.

On the same occasion, the Chancellor also inaugurated Professors from the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Prof. Alhadi delivered his inaugural speech entitled The Strategic Role of Computational Mathematics and Data Science in the Multidisciplinary Era of Bioinformatics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

“Currently, Bioinformatics is leaping into a new era of “big data” by generating large amounts of data in everyday life, such as in genomics research,” said Prof. Alhadi in his speech.

Big Data itself is a vast, complex, and constantly growing collection of data. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, learn from it, and use it to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation.

The Head of the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia, sees promising research opportunities in Computational Mathematics, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Big Data, and AI in the multidisciplinary era. These research development prospects include research collaborations with related faculties/fields, government, and industry; the MBKM program and the introduction of Data Science and AI at the school level; strengthening human resources; and establishing startups in the fields of Data Science and AI.

Meanwhile, Prof. Titin delivered her inaugural speech entitled The Role of Statistics in Data Science in Predicting Intelligence Healthcare Welcoming the Era of Society 5.0.

According to Prof. Titin, statistics is a science related to data. Over time, statistics has been used as a tool to inform decision-making processes in the face of uncertainty in real-world problems in both the sciences and the humanities.

“This can happen because statistics has the concepts of randomness, variability, error, and probability. Statistics has evolved over time, becoming part of a combination of sciences such as… data science and biostatistics,” said Prof. Titin in her speech.

The Head of the Statistics Study Program at FMIPA UI said that from the results of his research it can be concluded that statistics plays an important role as tools on data science in predicting intelligence healthcare to welcome the era society 5.0. Recent research has been conducted on Improving the quality of clinical artificial intelligence: towards continuous monitoring and updating of AI algorithms in healthcare.