Russasmita Sri Padmi is an academic specialist at SEAMEO QITEP­ Mathematics (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization,  Regional Centre for the Quality Improvement  of Teachers and Education Personnel) in Yogyakarta. She earned her BS degree in mathematics education from Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha in 2012. With a scholarship from the International Master’s Programme in Mathematics Education, jointly funded by DIKTI and Nuffic Neso (Dutch government scholarship), she spent one year at Universitas Negeri Surabaya and a second year at Utrecht University, before finally earning her MSc in statistics education in 2015.

Her proposed study is on STEM education  at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She intends to help strengthen SEAQiM’s program in STEM education upon returning from her research in the United States.