Harrini Mutiara Hapsari is a landscape architecture doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in using flood-proof structures to form flood-resilient waterfronts for coastal cities in Indonesia.

Harrini is a lecturer in architecture at Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in architecture and a master’s in environmental management, specialization in land and water management from Universitas Sriwijaya and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands.