Raymond Kosala, M.B.A., M.Eng (AI)., Ph.D is Co-Founder, Executive Consultant & Coach for Big Data, Machine Learning and Technology at the Agus Tjandra Academy. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering from the Atma Jaya University, Indonesia (1994), Master of Business Administration (1998), Master of Artificial Intelligence (1999) and Ph.D in Informatics (2003) degrees from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has more than 19 years of consulting and delivering professional development courses for some of the largest companies in Indonesia, and teaching experience as a lecturer at a well-known private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has carried out research and consulting work for a European Union Sol-EU-Net project (2000-2003) in collaboration with several universities in Europe. He has consulted and trained various organizations on, among others, business intelligence and data management, and artificial intelligence in the data mining and machine learning areas.

Raymond has written and published more than 20 refereed publications in international conferences, journals, books, and book chapters that include invited chapters in “Machine Learning Research Progress” book in 2008 and in “Dealing With the Data Flood: Mining Data, Text and Multimedia” book by the Netherlands Center for Technology Trends Study in 2002. He has served as an Editorial Board of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations from 2009 to 2019. He has served as a Program Committee member for some international conferences, as the Judge Committee of the Indonesia ICT Awards from 2009 to 2014, and as the Deputy Director of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition Regional Asia – Jakarta from 2008 to 2010.