Prof. Nyoman Semadi Antara, Ph.D. was born on September 23, 1961. He graduated from Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) and got Ph.D. on Applied Microbiology in 2004. He has done scientific visit to USA (2002), Taiwan (2003), Japan (2006), and Singapore (2009). Research collaboration, training and consultation activities have been done with domestic and overseas institutions and companies (such as PLN, SITH – ITB, IPB, Unsrat, ACS – Denpasar, PT. Soejasch Bali, PT. Fu Ming Food International, PT. Hatten Holding, USDA, USAID, Texas A&M University, National University of Singapore/NUS, and Korea University/KU). He also actives in scientific organizations and societies (Indonesia Food Technologist Association/Patpi, Indonesian Society for Microbiology/Permi, Indonesian Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria/ISLAB, Asian Federation of Lactic Acid Bacteria/AFLAB, and American Society for Microbiology/ASM) and published his scientific articles in national and international journals and seminars. Now he is a vice dean for academic affair and faculty plan development, Faculty of Agricultural Technology. Until now he is a head of Research Group of Bioindustrial Process. He actives supporting to review the academic position of lecturer of KOPERTIS VIII (Bali, NTB, and NTT Region). He is a member of Scientific Paper Validation Team in Udayana University and KOPERTIS VIII. E-mail address: semadi.antara@unud.ac.id