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| Jan 2009-Jun 2011 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management |
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Master of Science in Engineering and Management with a GPA of 4.6
System Design and Management Fellow
Thesis Title: Revolutionizing Education with the Awareness of Knowledge Concepts in High School
Thesis Advisor: Pat Hale, Director of the SDM Fellows Program at MIT
- Media Committee in the SDM Leadership Committee
- Webmaster of the Thai Student Association at MIT |
| Aug 2004-Dec 2005 |
School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
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Master of Science in Information Science with a GPA of 3.79
- Graduate Student Researcher of Instruction and Learning Department, School of Education
- Web Administrator of Thai Student Association at the University of Pittsburgh |
| Jun 1999-Mar 2003 |
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a GPA of 3.13
Senior Project: An Automatic Control and Monitoring System
Project Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Peraphon Sophatsathit
- Co-Director of Science Department Reception in Chulalongkorn Academic Exhibition#5
- System Administrator of Computer Science Department
- Web Administrator of Chulalongkorn University website (Uactivity) |
| May 1993-Mar 1998 |
Bangkok Christian College, Bangkok, Thailand |
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High School Diploma
Received a diploma from a program that is equivalent to high school at 11th grade
- Vice-President of the Math and Science Club
- Cheerleader of "Jaturamit Traditional Soccer" |
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Academic Experience at Massachusett Institute of Technology [Featured projects are highlighed in yellow]
| Course ID |
Class Title |
Course Grade |
Semester Completion |
| ESD.THG |
ESD Graduate Thesis |
A |
Spring 2011 |
| Class Description: Program of research, leading to the writing of an SM thesis to be arranged by the student with a member of the ESD faculty. | Pat Hale |
Project Description:
REACH (Revolutionizing Education with the Awareness of Knowledge Concepts in High School) |  Project Page
REACH is an unprecendented experimental tool, which was created to help high school students to understand the "value" of knowledge concepts taught in high school level and to help them strategically create their own personal learning plans based on their career interests. The tool is primarily designed in a way that helps increase students' motivation to learn and helps cultivate a mindset of self-directed learning. By visualizing the subtle connections among professions, assorted skills and relevant knowledge concepts, REACH empowers high school students to discover the paths to their dreams.
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| ESD.36 |
System Project Management |
A |
Fall 2009 |
| Class Description: Subject focuses on management principles, methods, and tools to effectively plan and implement successful system and product development projects. Material is divided into four major sections: project preparation, planning, monitoring, and adaptation. Brief review of classical techniques such as CPM and PERT. Emphasis on new methodologies and tools such as Design Structure Matrix (DSM), probabilistic project simulation, as well as project system dynamics (SD). Topics are covered from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives. Industrial case studies expose factors that are typical drivers of success and failure in complex projects with both hardware and software content. Term projects analyze and evaluate past and ongoing projects in student's area of interest. Projects used to apply concepts discussed in class | O. de Weck, J. Lyneis |
Class Project Description: Application of System Project Management Tools - Production of FCV |  Final Presentation
This project demonstrated how my team utilized several system project management tools to assess the feasibility of the Forward Command Vehicle (FCV) production project and to identify area of improvements to ensure the project accomplishment of the future similar project within a given deadline.
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| ESD.937 |
Architecting & Engineering Software Systems |
A |
Fall 2009 |
| Class Description: Software architecting and design of software-intensive systems. Targeted at future CTOs who must understand both the business and technical issues involved in architecting enterprise-scale systems. Student teams confront technically challenging problems. Lectures and readings cover core database, XML, web server components and browser issues in a distributed web service environment. | J. Williams, D. Hartzband, A. Sanchez |
Class Project Description: Concurrency In Software | Final Presentation
The class project discussed a paradigm shift in software systems development. Since traditional programming techniques cannot gain the full advantage of multi-core processors, the new programming techniques such as hyper-threading and cache are introduced to reach the maximum advantage of multi-core processors.
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| ESD.261 |
Case Studies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
B |
Spring 2010 |
| Class Description: A combination of lectures and cases covering the strategic, management, and operating issues in contemporary logistics and integrated supply chain management. Includes: logistics strategy; supply chain restructuring and change management; and distribution, customer service, and inventory policy. | J. Byrnes |
Class Case Description: Per Request
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| ESD.34 |
System Architecture |
B |
Fall 2009 |
| Class Description: Covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. Presents a synthetic view including: the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; and the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. Industrial speakers and faculty present examples from various industries. Heuristic and formal methods are presented. | E. F. Crawley |
Class Project Description: System Architecture of SDM Website | Project Report
This project proposed recommended website components based on the analysis of stakeholders needs, which are the most important starting point of a successful system design.
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| 15.390 |
New Enterprise |
B |
Fall 2009 |
| Class Description: Covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, then conceptualizing, planning, and starting a new, technology-based enterprise. Topics include opportunity assessment, the value proposition, the entrepreneur, legal issues, entrepreneurial ethics, the business plan, the founding team, seeking customers and raising funds. Students develop detailed business plans for a start-up. Intended for students who want to start their own business, further develop an existing business, be a member of a management team in a new enterprise, or better understand the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial process. | Howard Anderson, Bill Aulet |
Class Project Description: LifeTracker Business Plan | Executive Summary
Our project team cretated a business plan for LifeTracker, which is a tagging system for frequent travelers to locate and track their personal belonging anywhere and anyime from their cell phones or the LifeTracker website.
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| ESD.71 |
Engineering System Analysis for Design |
C |
Fall 2009 |
| Class Description: Covers theory and methods to identify, value, and implement flexibility in design, also known as "real options." Topics include definition of uncertainties, simulation of performance for scenarios, screening models to identify desirable flexibility, decision and lattice analysis, and multidimensional economic evaluation. Students demonstrate proficiency through an extended application to a systems design of their choice. | R. de Neufville |
Class Project Description: Flexibility in Plastic-Bottle Production System | Project Report
The project studied the possible financial benefits for a plastic bottle production system if the flexibility is incorporated into their production system design. Several engineering techniques such as two-period decision analysis, lattice analysis and VARG curve analysis are used to calculate the expected financial gain between the production system with flexibility and the production system without flexiblity.
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| ESD.763 |
Operations and Supply Chain Management |
A |
Summer 2009 |
| Class Description: Objectives are to develop modeling skills and to provide new concepts and problem-solving tools, applicable to the design and planning of supply chains as well as manufacturing systems. |
Class Project Description: Avancar Case Study
Our project team developed a framework for Avancar to organize the network typology of their parking spots in Barcelona to maximize their serviceability while keeping the service costs low. Also, the technique of data aggregation and risk pooling are mainly used to approximate the number of cars needed as a safety stock in their parking spots. |
| ESD.74 |
System Dynamics for Engineers |
B |
Summer 2009 |
| Class Description: Introduces the methodology and then develops applications to large-scale engineering systems, such as the design and construction of mega projects; the impacts of organization on system performance; and the interrelationships between technical systems and the social/political context in which such systems operate. | B. Morrison |
Class Project Description: Understanding Business Fluctuations - The Causes of Oscillations
Our project team formulated system dynamic models of a business situation where the problem of concern centers on chronic instability in the management of production, inventories, and employment in a manufacturing firm. Also, we investigated the causes of and cures for oscillations using the “system dynamics” approach.
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| 15.514 |
Financial and Managerial Accounting |
B |
Summer 2009 |
| Class Description: An intensive introduction to the preparation and interpretation of financial information for investors (external users) and managers (internal users) and to the use of financial instruments to support system and project creation. Adopts a decision maker perspective on accounting and finance. Restricted to System Design and Management students. | S. Keating |
| ESD.40 |
Product Design and Development |
A |
Spring 2009 |
| Class Description: Modern tools and methods for product design and development. Teams of SDM and certificate program students conceive, design, and prototype a physical product. Cases and exercises reinforce key ideas. Topics include product planning, identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, concept design, and design-for-manufacturing. Restricted to SDM students or permission of instructor. | Maria C. Yang , P. Hale |
Class Project Description: Power-2-GO™ | Project Page
Power-2-GO™ is an electric rechargable carry-on luggage for business travelers who travel a lot, use electronic devices during their trip, and may have no continuous access to power source.
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| 15.965 |
Technology Strategy |
A |
Spring 2009 |
| Class Description: This course provides you with a framework to understand the structure and dynamics of high-tech businesses, together with an approach for their effective strategic management. It is focused on domains in which systems are important, because either or both products are parts of larger and more complex systems, or they are comprised of systems. The domains covered include computing, communications (in particular the mobile and IP domains), consumer electronics, industrial networking, automotive, aerospace and medical devices. The course will be of particular interest to those interested in managing a business in which technology will likely play a major role, and also to those interested in investing in or providing counsel to these businesses. | Michael Davies |
Class Project Description: Analysis of Object Tracking Technologies | Project Report
This project is to analyze several aspects of the object tracking technologies such as complex co-evolution of technological innovation, demand opportunity, system architecture and business ecosystem in order to develop a strategy to successfully grow technolgies in the marketplace.
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| 15.969 |
User Centered Innovation in the Internet Age |
B |
Spring 2009 |
Class Description: This course covers the rapidly changing relationship between manufacturers and the customers they serve. While fi rms are increasingly outsourcing their product development, customers - both industrial buyers and end consumers - are rapidly becoming much more active as innovators. The course will examine this "Internet Age" change and explore its implications for the business models of both new and traditional manufacturers. | Eric A. von Hippel
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Class Paper Desciption: Innovation Proliferation with “Toolkit”
The paper discusses how a concept of “toolkit” can empower product users to innovate self-customized products, which then help proliferate innovations for organizations. Also, several toolkits around the world are introduced to demonstrate how they boost up innovations in their marketplace.
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| 15.980 |
Organizing for Innovative Product Development |
A |
Spring 2009 |
Class Description: This course introduces new product development. Topics include technology transfer, relations between science and technology, and the innovation process. | Prof. Tom Allen
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Class Paper Description: Matrix Organizations in Multi-National Companies and Government Agencies
The objective of this paper is to examine how Multi-National Companies (MNCs) and government agencies tackle common challenges posed by its matrix structure. The paper also proposes the best practices associated with the challenges.
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| ESD.762 |
System Optimization |
A |
Spring 2009 |
Class Description: Application-oriented introduction to systems optimization focusing on understanding system tradeoffs. Introduces modeling methodology (linear, integer and nonlinear programming) and simulation methods, with applications in production planning and scheduling, inventory planning and supply contracts, logistics network design, facility sizing and capacity expansion, yield management, electronic trading and finance. | D. Simchi-Levi
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Class Project Description: Analysis of Discount Seats Allocation
Our project team focuses on one of the yield management sub-problems, namely, the allocation of discount seats of a flight. The problem is complicated by the unpredictability of demand, which in turn, is caused by the prices of seats, the prices that competitors are charging, variations in weather, and many other factors. Our team developed a mathematical model along with a set of assumptions, leading to a precise calculation before making a recommendation regarding the optimal discount seats of the flight.
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Academic Experience at University of Pittsburgh [Featured projects are highlighed in yellow]
| Course ID |
Class Title |
Course Grade |
Semester Completion |
| INFSCI 2550 |
Client-Server and Work Station System |
A |
Fall 2005 |
| Class Description: Analysis and design of distributed communication systems. Emphasis on distributed applications and various protocols used in such applications. Explores algorithms for iterative and concurrent server designs as well as the design of client application level protocols. |
Class Project Description: MP3 Intelligent Playlist System | Project Report
Project team and I developed a MP3 player incorporating an intelligent playlist system, which recommends popular MP3 songs to users based on thier preference settings. This system obtains those information from a web service (created by the team) on specified server. Besides, the system allows users to download those popular songs directly from the server as well as sharing their songs to other online users by uploading them. |
| INFSCI 2160 |
Data Mining |
A |
Fall 2005 |
| Class Description: Introduction to data-mining techniques, including data preprocessing, data-mining primitives, association rules, decision trees, cluster analysis, classification and machine learning, data visualization, and data warehousing. Detailed applications from a wide variety of domains. |
Class Exemplary Assignment: Letter Recognition Database Analysis | Exemplary Assignment
This final assignment shows how data mining techniques and the software named "Clementine" can help unveil hidden understandings and relationships in a database via the data analysis process. |
| INFSCI 2927 |
Independent Study : Information Visualization |
A |
Fall 2005 |
| Class Description: Independent studies are intended to cover advanced material outside of or beyond the scope of current course offerings. |
Class Project Description: ADVisE3D | Project Website | Independent Study Report
This tool is enhanced from the final project of the Information Storage and Retrieval course. The tool mainly focuses on the visualization part to serve other existing systems as a distance visualized tool. It can be used as both standalone and visualized service depending on the availability of the data source. |
| INFSCI 2906 |
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning |
A- |
Fall 2005 |
| Class Description: Introduction to core ideas of knowledge representation and reasoning, including: predicate logic, resolution, rule-based reasoning, object-based and description-based representations, inheritance and default reasoning, semantic web languages from XML to OWL, ontology development, and issues concerning representation of dimensions of the physical and social worlds. |
Class Project Description: Ontology of Information Science | Information Science Ontology | Project Report
The project report shows the initial development of the "information science" ontology which is expressed into three formalisms that are First Order Logic (FOL), OWL and Protégé. As a result of this project, the ontology can be developped further to serve as knowledge base for related knowledge acquisition systems. |
| INFSCI 2810 |
Management Information System |
A+ |
Summer 2004 |
| Class Description: Analysis and design of information systems to support the strategic management level of an organization. Specific foci on systems support for Business Process Reengineering, Business Intelligence and decision support. |
Class Project Description: Blackboard™ E-Portfolio Component Evaluation | Project Report
E-portfolio component is a part of the popular Blackboard content system used by many top universites in US. This project is to evaluate the component and determine whether the component satisfies University of Pittsburgh's needs according to the defined requirements or not. |
| INFSCI 2130 |
Decision Analysis and Decision Support System |
A |
Spring 2004 |
| Class Description: Introduction to decision analysis with elements of human cognition under uncertainty, including structuring decision problems and developing creative decision options, quantifying uncertainty and preferences, and combining uncertainty and preferences to arrive at optimal decisions. Foundations needed for applying the methods of decision analysis in decision support systems. |
Class Project Description: Decision Support for Laptop Buyers | Project Report
This decision support system help users make informed choices when selecting laptop computers based on user preferences, usage profile, and budget. Using consumer reports and an updatable laptop database, this system provides reliable results when suggesting up-to-date laptop models to users. |
| INFSCI 2470 |
Interactive System Design |
A |
Spring 2004 |
| Class Description: Introduction to principles and techniques of interactive system design. Emphasis on practical skills of user interface design and evaluation. Builds a connection between human information processing and interactive system design practice, reviews interactive programming for major interface paradigms, and covers main analysis and evaluation techniques of modern usability engineering. Focuses on GUI and Internet programming techniques and project-based experience in the design and evaluation of practical user interfaces. |
Class Project Description: CourseAgent USTAD & Interactive Data Entry Forms | CourseAgent USTAD (User Studies, Task Analysis and Design Report) | Project Report (Interactive Data Entry Forms)
Proposed as the final project in the class, project team have developed a system that permits users to enter and view information that will be of interest to tudents of the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the niversity of Pittsburgh. |
| INFSCI 2511 |
Information System Analysis, Design and Evaluation |
B+ |
Spring 2004 |
| Class Description: Object-oriented design best practices; principles of system architecture; design patterns; requirements traceability; construction of UML-compliant models (class, sequence, communication and package diagrams); refactoring; iterative development of system prototype. Requires knowledge of fundamental OO programming concepts including abstract classes, interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, and message passing. |
Class Project Description: Bank Information System UML | Project Report
As a result of this project, a model of bank information system has been analyzed, designed and documented in order to be ready for object-oriented development process. The model are designed by using popular Unified Modeling Language (UML) including Gangs of four (GOF) patterns. |
| INFSCI 2720 |
Geographic Information System |
A |
Spring 2004 |
| Class Description: Introduction to the fundamentals of GIS. Topics include GIS components, geospatial data structures, geospatial databases, geospatial data integration and conversion, overlay analysis, proximity analysis, network analysis, buffering, topology, and GIS tools (hardware and software). |
Class Project Description: Vector Data Clipping Project | Project Flowchart
Clipping in GIS is the process of extracting data within the extent of a polygon, which by itself may be contained ithin the extent of a larger polygon. A clipping module can extract all data (spatial and attribute) that fall within a polygon. |
| INFSCI 2300 |
Human Information Processing |
A- |
Fall 2004 |
| Class Description: Introduction to research and theory in human cognition, including perception, attention, pattern recognition, memory, representation of knowledge, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making, with emphasis on modeling human cognition and implications for user interface design and design of intelligent systems. |
Class Project Description: Intelligent Assistant for Purchasing a Laptop | Project Report
Project team have created an intelligent assistant helping users choose a laptop computer that fits to their needs by analyzing from their individual characteristics, profession, habits and other related criterion. |
| INFSCI 2000 |
Introduction to Information Science |
B |
Fall 2004 |
| Class Description: Overview of the history, academic roots, conceptual structure, and methodology of information science. Explores principles and concepts that underlie information processing, including information theory, models of information storage and retrieval, and human cognition. Basic processes of information systems analysis, design, and development. |
Class Project Description: XHML Tutorial | Project Website
This tutorial provides the introduction of XHTML together with frequent tag reference. It also includes a set of quizzes in order to evaluate your understanding. |
| INFSCI 2140 |
Information Storage and Retrieval |
A- |
Fall 2004 |
| Class Description: Problems and techniques related to storing and accessing unstructured information with an emphasis on textual information. Overview of several approaches to information access with a primary focus on search-based information access. Covers automated retrieval system design, content analysis, retrieval models, result presentation, and system evaluation. Examines applications of retrieval techniques on the Web, in multimedia and multilingual environments, and in text classification and event tracking. |
Class Project Description: Document Similarity In Space | Project Website
This project, as a part of the Information Storage and Retrieval course, shows document space representing the similarity among documents. The program treats query as a document and used Euclidean distance and Cosine Measure to calculate distance among them. The space is represented in 2D and 3D graphics, so users easily perceive how the document space looks like. |
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Academic Experience at Chulalongkorn University [Featured projects are highlighed in yellow]
| Senior Year |
Class Project Description: ATCMS | Project Page
ATCMS is traffic simulation software that not only utilizes a theory of Poisson distribution and real road data in the focus area (Dusit district in Bangkok) to develop a mathematical model for simulating traffic behaviors but also exploits actual traffic data and statistic to allow traffic analysts to search for an optimal traffic light sequence of the traffic congested area in a timely and cost-effective manner.
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| Junior Year |
Class Project Description: Database Management System for Video Rental Store
Created and developed a video rental store database system to allow users to manage, manipulate, and display rental information. |
| Junior Year |
Class Project Description: Mathematics Department Web Site
Designed and implemented a website providing Mathematics departmental information as well as available study programs to assist prospective students who might be interested in studying computer science and mathematics. |
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