In order to welcome industry 4.0, Universitas Gadjah Mada inaugurated the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center of Excellence which will accommodate productive and innovative research in the field of intelligent transportation technology, early detection of diseases and health monitoring, robotics and censorship systems, digital communication and social media, energy management, and customer experience based on artificial intelligence technology. UGM AI Center of Excellence was inaugurated by Ir. Budi Karya Sumadi, Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia, on Friday, February 22, 2019 at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Faculty of Engineering, coincided with the commemoration of the 73rd Engineering Higher Education Day (HPTT). The inauguration began with the ribbon cutting by Ir. Budi Karya Sumadi, Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia; Ir. Airlangga Hartanto, M.B.A., M.M.T, Minister of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia who previously inaugurated the Toyota Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering FT UGM; and Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng, Chancellor of Gadjah Mada University. The inauguration agenda was continued by the signing of a digital inscription by Ir. Budi Karya Sumadi, Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia.
UGM AI Center of Excellence has research activities, namely intelligent vehicle automatic detection systems, research on intelligent systems for detecting the density of vehicles on a road or traffic light, research on Automatic License Plate Recognition, and research on intelligent visual-based systems to assist navigation automatic. Several national practitioners and scientists also contributed to the UGM advisory board and advisors AI Center of Excellence, including Dr. Ing. Ilham Akbar Habibie (CEO of Ilthabi Rekatama), Dr. Agus Hasan Sulistiono (Director of PT. Tira Austenite, Tbk.), Prof. Ir. Nizam, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering UGM), Herman Widjaja (VP Engineering Tokopedia), Rene Indiarto Widjaja (Director of PT. Epsindo Prima Energi), and Dr. Ettikan K. Karuppiah (Director of Developer Ecosystem, NVIDIA).
Chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Sarjiya on another occasion said that the AI Center of Excellence would be the right place for the implementation of artificial intelligence technology research that had been carried out at UGM for the wider community. In addition, the AI Center of Excellence will accelerate the opportunities for technological development which is the basis of the digital industry that is currently growing rapidly in Indonesia. Some UGM researchers who initiated the AI Center of Excellence have collaborated with various academic and industrial institutions in the country and abroad in developing various kinds of artificial intelligence technology-based solutions. In 2022, the UGM AI Center of Excellence is expected to be a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology innovation in Indonesia as well as being a major contributor to the development of the digital intelligence technology-based digital industry. (efr)