Wawan Hermawan received his Doctoral Degree in Agricultural Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1998, and is currently serving as a faculty member and researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, IPB University, where he has worked since 1987. He served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical and Biosystems Engineering from 2004 to 2008, and later as the Head of the Doctoral Study Program in Agricultural Engineering Science from 2010 to 2020 at IPB University. He is an active member of the Indonesian Society of Agricultural Engineering. His research interests mainly include agricultural machinery engineering, agricultural machine design, terramechanics, and precision agriculture.