Arief Setyanto is currently a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Computer Science Universitas Amikom Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He received his Bachelor degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta in 1998. He received his Master (M.T)) degree in Electrical Engineering from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2002. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (CSEE) from University of Essex, The United Kingdom in 2016. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.