Kuwat Triyana (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in physics and in applied science for electronics and materials from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, in 1991, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, in 1997, and Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2005. He joined the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1997, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is currently the Head of the Taste and Odor Research Center (TOR-C), Universitas Gadjah Mada. He is also Founder of PT. NanoSense Instrument Indonesia and serves as a member of the Institute of Halal Industry and System (IHIS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, to develop rapid halal authentication tools. In professional organization, he is recently a Vice President of Physical Society of Indonesia (PSI) and also Materials Research Society of Indonesia (MRS-id). His current researches are QCM based chemical sensors, electronic nose and tongue systems, and their applications. He is coauthor of more than 120 publications in indexed international scientific journals.