New Job in 2015

 

[Video about Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, 

Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Bahasa Indonesia.]

Result from the national civil servant exam in October 2014 has finally been announced. I pass the test. This means that I am now "almost" officially a lecturer and researcher at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. I will be working under the Department of  Engineering Physics and Instrumentation & Control Research group in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, from now on until my retirement at the age of 65...

National Exam for Indonesian Civil Servant Candidates (2014)

Identification card to follow the test. 

Just the other day, I did my national exam to be a civil servant in my country. I don't know much about how it is arranged in other countries, but in Indonesia, we have to become a civil servant if we want to work as a lecturer in public universities. Of course, to be a civil servant, you have to the exam. [site]

During my 90 minutes of computerized assisted test (CAT) for the national exam, I had to answer a total of 100 questions. The exam consists of questions related to common intelligence such as numbers and words, soft skills, and national insights regarding the constitution, etc. Five points is given for each correctly answered question. I got a 365 points out of 500, which is pretty good and still above the average grade.

After the CAT, there will still be the IQ & personality tests and interview. Fingers crossed!

Publication of second journal article

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail stated that my article entitled "Score calibration in face recognition" has been cited. I was so surprised knowing that this second journal article of mine was finally released and available online since February 2014 in the IET Biometrics journal. With so many hassle and procedure here and there, the paper is officially open-access such that everyone can have access to it. You can find the paper here.

Although it is available online, the paper is still under fast track article type. It means that it is available online such that people can cite and refer to it. Meanwhile, the paper itself is still waiting it turns to be included in one of the volumes of the journal. It has been indexed, but it does not have volume and page number yet.

With this second journal article published, I just need to work on my last journal article to complete my PhD research agenda.