Professor Utomo received his B.Eng. from Department of Industrial Engineering,  Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1992, and in 1995, he graduated from Master  Program in Decision Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and then Doctoral  Program also in Decision Science, Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo  Institute of Technology, Japan in 2001. Prof. Utomo published his academic works in  several international journals, such as IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and  Cybernetics, and Systems Analysis Modeling Simulation, Systems Research and  Behavioral Science, and Procedia Social and Behavioral Science, and as chapters in  Springer Books.

He presented several papers at various international conferences in Japan,  Singapore, China, and Vietnam. Consultation and training had been done for state and private companies and governments, i.e; negotiation, systems modelling for policy development, agent based modeling, strategic decision making, systems modeling, and decision  science. His research interests include systems modelling in policy development,  systems thinking, systems approach in decision making, negotiation, service  sciences, and agent based modeling. He also reviewer (editorial board) in several  international journals, such as Systems Research and Behavioral Science, and Asian  Journal of Management Science and Applications.  Starting from 2011 until now, he served as an experts in systems modelling for  policy development in UKP4 (President’s delivery unit for development monitoring  and oversight). He is also a secretary of Indonesia National Committee for Applied  Systems Analysis (INCASA) which represents Indonesia in International Institute for  Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.