The late Mohamad Ivan Fanany was widely known as a lecturer and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence who had served for more than a decade at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia (Fasilkom UI). Prior to joining Fasilkom UI, he worked at the Future Project Division, Toyota Motor Corp, Japan, as a member of the middleware development and recognition team. The deceased also worked at NHK Engineering Services Inc., as a researcher at the IT21 Millennium Project on Advanced High Resolution and Highly Sensible Presence 3D Content Creation funded by NICT Japan. In the field of academic research, he has experience as a JSPS Fellow and Research Assistant and Research Assistant at Imaging Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech).