PRAGMA 31 Student Symposium

PRAGMA31 Workshop: student symposium

CS@TU and PRAGMA Student Symposium

Panel Discussion on "Graduate Study: Survive and Succeed"

Date / Time: 16.45 - 17.45, Wednesday 7th, 2016

Venue: Galleria 2-3, S31 Sukhumvit Hotel

Overview

Succeeding in graduate school, particularly a doctoral program, requires all kinds of skills. Some of the known ones are obvious, and related to theoretical smart and research skills. Others might be less obvious, like persistence, creativity, and mental toughness. The goals of this panel discussion is to share lessons that apply to particular parts of graduate school experience, such as ‘working with my adviser,’ ‘writing my dissertation,’ or ‘preparing for qualifying exams.’ or ‘getting yourself to the point where you see the light at the end of the tunnel’. We are pleased to have distinguished panelists who know the road ahead and come back for our graduate students to ask.

Moderator

Dr. Roland Petrasche (waiting for confirmation)

(Lecturer at Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand)

Panelists

1. Dr. Krisada Chaiyasarn

(Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies at Faculty of Engineering, Thammasat University, Thailand)

Dr. Krisada Chaiyasarn received a prestigious Royal Thai Government scholarship at the age of 18 to study in the United Kingdom. During this time, he obtained his PhD and undergraduate studies from University of Cambridge. He was a member of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge and supervised by Professor Kenichi Soga. After his PhD study, he joined JPMorgan in high frequency trading group for two years before returning to work in academia. He is currently a faculty member and serves as Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies at Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat University, Thailand. His research interests include Smart Infrastructure, Building Information Model (BIM), Computer Vision and Image Processing in Civil Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, Water Engineering and Climate Change. During his PhD research, he worked in a collaborative project with the funding of over 1M pounds to build a smart infrastructure network. His role was to build a Computer Vision system to monitor the health of the London underground network. Additionally, during this time, he worked with Belgium government to build an image-based monitoring system to monitor stability of slopes. Currently, Krisada is working on monitoring the health of historical buildings using latest image processing and computer vision techniques. His plan is to continue applying computer vision techniques in many areas of civil engineering.

Dr. Chalee Vorakulpipat

(Head of Cybersecurity Lab. of National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand)

Dr. Chalee Vorakulpipat received his B.Eng. in electronics engineering from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Thailand and M.S. in information technology from Kasetsart University Thailand. He was awarded a scholarship from the Royal Thai Government to pursue a doctoral study. He earned his PhD in information systems from the University of Salford, UK. He is currently the head of Cybersecurity Laboratory at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center of Thailand. He has been involved in several projects in information security, mobile device management, social networking sites, ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, e-health and mobile application development. He has over 30-refereed publications in these areas which appeared in conference proceedings and journals such as Computers & Security, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Automation in Construction and Knowledge Engineering Review. He also serves as subcommittee on national information security of Thailand. In the academic role, he works as a lecturer for information systems courses at several universities in Thailand. He holds information security professional certificates including CISSP, CISA and IRCA:ISMS Lead Auditor.

Conference Admin