I'm one of the lecturer in Statistics Department Universitas Syiah Kuala. I completed my M.Sc in Statistics from North Dakota State University, USA, in 2006 and finished my undergraduate study in Mathematics from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya, Indonesia, in 1997. My research interest is in statistical computing for modelling and simulation. Currently, with my fellow researchers, I'm working on developing algorithm to extract extract tropical diseases information reported on Indonesian online news articles using data mining technique.