Syafrudi is a faculty member of Department of Computer Systems Engineering at Universitas Prasetiya Mulya. He received his bachelor’s degree from Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) and received his Master’s degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. His professional interest focus on electrical power systems and automation programming. He has been in automation projects such as PLC, home automation, smart relays, and microcontrollers since 2018. During his master's studies, he was involved in the Microgrid Research Group to build microgrids at UGM. The topic of his research is the use of data processing to perform Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques on household appliances.