Yudi Setiawan graduated from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in Soil Science in 2001. He continued his study at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and got M.Sc (2010) and Ph.D (2013) in Environmental Science. He had been a postdoctoral fellow at Nihon University, Japan, from 2013 to 2014. This was a post-doctoral research in the study entitled Spatio-temporal variation of carbon budget in Arctic pedosphere concerned with the prediction of global climate change. From 2014-2015 he has been working as a remote sensing specialist on land change detection at UNDP-REDD Indonesia. He has developed a novel method for the change detection, and it should be applicable in the development of a near-real time deforestation detection system for Indonesia. He is presently a lecturer at Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and researcher in the Centre for Environmental Research, Bogor Agricultural University (PPLH-IPB). He is also a member of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS). His main research is in the area of remote-sensing for forestry, land use science, image processing and ecological modelling.