Azriansyah is a research fellow at the Indonesian Institute for Foreign Affairs (IIFA) at Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII). His research interests are in comparative politics and foreign policy in Southeast Asia. He is focusing on topics such as authoritarianism, domestic sources of foreign policy, state-building, and politics of nontax revenues, especially related to the impact of natural resource extraction on political regimes. He earned his doctoral degree in political science at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in the summer of 2025 with a graduate certificate in Southeast Asian Studies. His field of study is comparative politics (first field) and American government (second field). He obtained his master's degree in political science at NIU and his bachelor's degree in political science at Universitas Indonesia. He is currently working on a journal article about the role of political parties and natural resource extraction on authoritarian regime survival, comparing Indonesia under Suharto and Cambodia under Hun Sen.