Agustinus Hardi Prasetyo was born in Ambarawa, Indonesia, August 2nd, 1974. He obtained his undergraduate degree in English Education from English Language Education Study Program of Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1999. He pursued his master’s degree in Applied Linguistics in The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia with an ADS scholarship (2003-2004). He then pursued his doctoral degree in Applied Linguistics and Technology with a Fulbright scholarship in Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA from 2016 until 2023. Currently he is the chairperson of the English Language Studies Graduate program at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.