SHORT	  BIOGRAPHY	  	  Dr.	  Hammam	  Riza	  Extensive	   30-­‐years	   experience	   in	   ICT,	   with	   emphasis	   in	   language	   technology,	   enterprise	   	   information	  system,	  broadband	  and	  mobile	  communication	  with	  in-­‐depth	  experience	  in	  research,	  development,	  and	  operation	  of	  IT	  system	  and	  network.	  	  Dr.	   Riza	   hold	   Doctor	   of	   Engineering	   degree	   in	   Electrical	   Engineering	   (cum	   laude)	   from	   Bandung	  Institute	   of	   Technology	   (ITB),	   Master	   of	   Science	   in	   Computer	   Science	   from	   University	   of	   Kentucky,	  USA	  and	  Bachelor	  in	  Electrical	  Engineering,	  majoring	  Electronics	  and	  Control	  System.	  	  He	  hold	  position	  as	  executive	  Chief	  Information	  Officer	  (CIO)	  and	  Director	  of	  Center	  for	  Information	  and	   Communication	   Technology	   at	   the	   Agency	   for	   	   the	   	   Assessment	   and	   Application	   of	   Technology	   –	  BPPT,	   Government	   of	   Indonesia,	   which	   serve	   various	   Ministries	   and	   Agencies	   of	   Indonesian	  government,	  including	  Ministry	  of	  Home	  Affairs	  (e-­‐KTP),	  National	  Election	  Committee	  (e-­‐Election,	  e-­‐Voting),	  the	  Ministry	  of	  Defense	  (Enterprise	  Architecture	  for	  Defense	  Information	  System),	  Ministry	  of	  ICT	  (Digital	  TV	  EWS	  feature)	  and	  many	  e-­‐Government	  projects	  in	  Local	  Government.	  His	  research	  in	  Machine	  Translation	  and	  NLP	  	  started	  with	  CICC	  Multilingual	  Machine	  Translation	  System	  (1989);	  Pangloss	  Mark-­‐III	  Machine	  Translation;	  Mikrokosmos	  Machine	  Translation	  Project	  (1993);	  Indonesia	  National	  Corpus	  INC-­‐IX	  –	  BPP	  Teknologi	  (2000-­‐2002),	  MMA	  Multimedia	  Annotation,	  Sigmatics,	  Japan	  (2000-­‐2001),	   BPPT	   WebTranslator	   BPPT	   (1998-­‐2000)	   and	   during	   the	   last	   10	   years	   has	   developed	  bidirectional	  Indonesian-­‐English	  SMT	  and	  participate	  in	  international	  joint	  researches,	  including	  the	  A-­‐STAR,	  PAN	  Localization,	  U-­‐STAR	  and	  ASEAN-­‐MT.	  He	  is	  a	  member	  of	  international	  advisory	  board	  of	  AFNLP,	  ISCA	  and	  O-­‐COCOSDA.	  
He	   was	   the	   Director	   of	   Science	   and	   Technology	   Information	   Network	   (IPTEKnet)	   BPPT,	   the	   first	  licensed	   internet	   service	   provider	   in	   Indonesia	   (1995),	   and	   have	   held	   various	   positions	   in	   major	  Internet	   start-­‐up	   companies	   as	   professional	   executive	   IT	   consultant,	   such	   as	   Lippostar.com,	  Astaga.com,	   RADNET	   and	   	   Linknet.	   He	   was	   the	   Supervisory	   Committee	   for	   Indonesian	   Internet	  Association	  (APJII)	  and	  the	  Honorary	  member	  of	  Indonesian	  Telecommunication	  Society	  (MASTEL)	  Dr.	   Riza	   has	   certification	   from	   Institute	   of	   Indonesian	   Engineers	   (BKE-­‐PII)	   as	   Lead	   Professional	  Engineer,	   the	   highest	   certification	   for	   Indonesian	   engineers	   and	   had	   receive	   training	   in	   IT	  Infrastructure	   Library,	   IT	   Security,	   Content	   Management	   System:	   Vignette	   StoryServer	   and	  Broadvision	  Publishing	  Engine.