Irfan Wahyudi is a lecturer in Media and Communications at Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia, His research touched topics on media studies, activism, migration, virtual communications, community, social memories, and identity. His work including State sponsored stigma and discrimination: female Indonesian workers in Hong Kong during the Pandemic (2023), Social Media as a coping strategy for Indonesian migrant mothers in Hong Kong to maintain mothering roles (2024), and Biosecurity infectious diseases of the returning Indonesian migrant workers (2024). He also serves as Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (2019), Curtin University (2023), and the International Institute of Asia Studies (IIAS), Leiden University (2023). In 2024, he acted as a co-Convenor of the 13th ICAS in Surabaya, Indonesia. He is the director of The Global Migration Research Center and Vice Director of the Airlangga Institute of Indian Ocean Crossroads (AIIOC).
His main research interests are digital media, migration, society, and communication technologies.