Yanuar Z. Arief was born in Pontianak, Indonesia in 1971. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tanjungpura (UNTAN), Pontianak, Indonesia in 1994. He received the M.S. degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan in 2006 and conducted a post-doctoral research at the Institute of Material & Diagnostic in Electrical Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany in 2007. He worked as a senior lecturer in the Institute of High Voltage and High Current (IVAT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia in 2007-2017. Currently he is a senior lecturer at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , Faculty of Engineering, UNIMAS. He was awarded Chartered Engineer (CEng) by UK Engineering Council in 2013 and a senior member of IEEE in 2017. He initiated to establish IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Malaysia Chapter in 2015 and became as a first chair in Jun 2015 until Dec 2016. His research interest includes partial discharge detection and degradation phenomena of polymeric insulating material, nanodielectric composite, renewable and biodegradable material as electrical insulation, and high voltage engineering insulation technology.