Zulfikar holds B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Sumatera, M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University (Arab Saudi), and Ph.D from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He was appointed as a lecturer at Department of Electronics, Politeknik Caltex Riau from April 2003 until March 2006 and served as heads of Industrial Control Laboratory for two consecutive years. He was appointed as a lecturer in Electronics at Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Syiah Kuala in April 2006. He has special interest and experience in Very Large Scales Integration (VLSI) design, specifically his research focuses on designing System on Chips (SoC), circuits for transformation process such as Walsh and Fourier and random generator circuits using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). Currently his research outcomes have been published at Scopus, and ISI indexed journals counted 26 papers.