Dr. Budi Utomo, S.P., M.P. is a lecturer in the field of Forest Cultivation at the USU Faculty of Forestry. He was born in Binjai on August 20, 1970. He completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Soil Science at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Islam North Sumatra, and graduated in 1994. He then continued his studies at the USU Master's Program in Soil Science and graduated in 1998. He eventually continued his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, and earned a Doctorate in 2006.

Since 2003, Dr. Budi Utomo has been working as a lecturer in the USU Faculty of Forestry Undergraduate Program in Forestry Forest Cultivation Interest, and to this day, he continues to conduct research and community service activities at USU actively.