Summary
Pras Utama is a postdoctoral researcher and computer engineer with nine years of experience specializing in multimodal human behavior analysis, combining physiological signals, eye tracking, facial action units, and motion capture to extract psychologically relevant insights. His PhD work produced diagnostic support for autism symptoms and an industry-collaborative ECG-based affect recognition system, and he has translated research models into practical prototypes while training and mentoring graduate students. Now at the Excellent Cluster of Collective Behavior in Constance, he quantifies action synchronization in social interaction using synchronized wearable sensors and motion capture in dynamic tasks. Comfortable bridging engineering and psychology, he routinely communicates technical findings to interdisciplinary audiences and collaborates with industry partners like Yamaha and Sony. Beyond research, he has product-focused experience building neural network pipelines on AWS and earlier software engineering roles delivering enterprise and web systems. Colleagues value his ability to fuse diverse biosignal modalities into actionable behavioral metrics and run end-to-end studies from sensor integration to conference dissemination.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Yokohama National University
Bachelor's degree, Education of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Education of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universitas Negeri Jakarta