The Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Brawijaya (FILKOM UB) together with the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) signed two Research Cooperation Agreements (PKS), namely the Biometric Research Field and the Data Science Field on Wednesday (2/10/2024) at F Building, FILKOM UB. The signing of the first PKS was carried out by Prof. Ir. Wayan Firdaus Mahmudy, S.Si., M.T., Ph.D. as the dean of FILKOM UB with Dr. Eng Anto Satriyo Nugroho, as the Head of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security Research (KAKS) BRIN while the second PKS was with Dr. Esa Prakasa, M.T. as the Head of the Center for Data and Information Science Research (SDI) BRIN. The signing was also attended by Dr. Eng Budi Prawara as the Head of the Electronics and Informatics Research Organization (OREI) BRIN which oversees various research centers such as PR KAKS and PR SDI BRIN.
The Dean of FILKOM UB explained that this signing meeting was very beneficial for FILKOM UB and BRIN in improving cooperation and institutional performance in the Information Technology-based Research Field. Meanwhile, the Head of OREI BRIN welcomed this collaboration and as soon as possible in the future initiated research fields such as the Bioinformatics Field and the Geoinformatics Field in addition to the Biometric Research Field and Data Science Field which have been signed by the PKS today. The potential of the Biometric Research Field can be downstreamed for ID Security, Financial Technology (FinTech) and the development of Electronic Identity Card in supporting the implementation of Digital Population Identity (IKD) by using human resources, infrastructure resources and domestic applications in welcoming Advanced Indonesia 2045.
One of the biometric fields being developed is related to the recognition of human iris patterns (detection) called the rainbow membrane.
“This rainbow membrane has a security advantage with a probability of comparing the same rainbow membrane from two people of around 1 billion. In addition to the high level of security due to the uniqueness of the pattern, the rainbow membrane also has very high stability when compared to fingerprints. Fingerprints are susceptible to age, palm cleanliness and some patterns are too fine so that they do not provide patterns that are easy to recognize,” said Anto.
On that occasion, present the head of the Biometric Research Team in collaboration with FILKOM UB and BRIN, namely Dr. Arief Andy Soebroto, while the head of the Data and Information Science Research Team, Uun Hariyati, Ph.D, both with the team. (aas/rr/UB PR/ Trans. Iir)
