CMKL - Key Persons
Anupam Datta is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Director of the Accountable Systems Lab. His research focuses on enabling real-world complex systems to be accountable for their behavior, especially as they pertain to privacy, fairness, and security. His work has helped create foundations and tools for accountable data-driven systems. Specific examples include an accountability tool chain for privacy compliance deployed in industry, automated discovery of gender bias in the targeting of job-related online ads, and principled tools for explaining decisions of artificial intelligence systems. Datta serves as lead PI of a large NSF project on Accountable Decision Systems, on the Steering Committee of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in socio-technical systems, and as an Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends of Privacy and Security. He obtained Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, all in Computer Science.
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- Technology and Creative Innovation
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- Trustee
- Board of Trustee
- Director of the Institute
David Kennedy is the Faculty Director of the Institute, and the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He teaches international law,David Kennedy international economic policy, legal theory, law and development and European law. He joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1981 after teaching in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a J.D. from Harvard. He is the author of numerous articles on international law and global governance. His research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology and social theory, economics and history to explore issues of global governance, development policy and the nature of professional expertise. He has been particularly committed to developing new voices from the third world and among women in international affairs. Professor Kennedy also has extensive experience as a practicing lawyer, having worked on numerous international projects, both commercial and public, including work with the United Nations, the Commission of the European Union, PricewaterhouseCoopers and with the private firm of Clearly, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in Brussels, where his work combined European antitrust litigation, government relations advising and general corporate law. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is currently Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council on Global Governance. At Harvard, he served as Chair of the Graduate Committee and Faculty Director of International Legal Studies. He founded the European Law Research Center at Harvard in 1991 and has served continuously as Faculty Director. He has advised a number of educational institutions on their academic programs, and lectured as a Visiting Professor at numerous universities across the world. In 2008-2009, he served as Vice President for International Affairs, University Professor of Law and David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University.
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- Trustee
- Board of Trustee
- President of the Institute of International Education
Dr. Allan E. Goodman is the sixth President of the Institute of International Education, the leading not-for-profit organization in the field of international educational exchange and development training. IIE conducts research on international academic mobility and administers the Fulbright program sponsored by the United States Department of State, as well as over 200 other corporate, government and privately-sponsored programs. Since its founding in 1919, the Institute has also rescued scholars threatened by war, terrorism, and repression. Rescued scholars and other alumni of Institute-administered
Dr. Anthony Rowe research focuses on networked real-time embedded systems for sensing and control applications. We are seeing an increasing number of new systems that interact directly with the environment where poor performance, unanticipated results and failure can be catastrophic. In the spirit of systems research, Rowe likes to design, implement and evaluate these types of systems in order to truly understand them. Recently, Rowe has been working on developing large-scale sensor networks and their supporting technologies that are energy-efficient and provide real-time properties. Sensor networks are a practical mechanism for bringing contextual information and new abilities to the already numerous embedded systems that surround us. They have the potential to revolutionize a wide range of application areas ranging from transportation and critical infrastructure monitoring to smart buildings and microgrids. One of his research core focuses is on precise timing and navigation to support localization in GPS-denied environments like inside buildings.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
Dr. H. Miri is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at CMKL (Carnegie Mellon KMITL) in Thailand. Prior to joining CMKL, he has studied, researched, taught, and worked in 8 countries; particularly after his Ph.D. in Cognitive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence 10 years ago, he has worked in several academic positions, as well as a few stints in industry. His research interests and previous works in the past 24 years span a wide range of topics; including Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality, Affective Computing, Interactive Multimedia, Technology-Enabled Education, Personalized Healthcare Systems, Mixed Reality Applications, Holographic Computing, Scientific Visualization, Semantic Information Processing, and Environmental & Social & Criminal Psychology. So far, a fruitful 24-year service and tenure in Higher Education, Academia, and Industry, as well as a Doctorate and a published book, form the basis of his humble claim to fame!
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- Assistant Professor
- Vice President
- Vice President of Research and Strategy
Dr. Orathai Sangpetch is currently serving as Vice President of Research and Strategy at CMKL University. She previously joined KMITL in 2013 after receiving B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University. As one of founding members of CMKL University, Dr. Sangpetch works closely in collaboration with public and private organizations in Thailand to support innovations and research strategy for CMKM program. Her goal is to realize the research capabilities and drive innovations that will impact the transformation of Thailand and its surrounding region. Her research interests include virtualization, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.
Hae Young Noh is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research introduced the new concept of "structures as sensors" to enable physical structures (e.g., buildings and vehicle frames) to be user- and environment-aware. In particular, these structures indirectly sense humans and surrounding environments through their structural responses (i.e., vibrations) by inferring the desired information (e.g., human behaviors, environmental conditions, heating and cooling system performance), instead of directly measuring the sensing targets with additional dedicated sensors (e.g., cameras, motion sensors). This concept brought a paradigm shift in how we view these structures and how the structures interact with us.
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- CMKM Program Director ( USA )
- Professor
Professor Hyong Kim has been at Carnegie Mellon University since 1990 where he is currently the Drew D. Perkins Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the B.Eng. (Honours) degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. His primary research areas are advanced switching architectures, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure network and computer system architectures, and distributed computing and network management systems. His Tera ATM switch architecture developed at Carnegie Mellon University has been licensed for commercialization to AMD and Samsung. In 1995, Dr. Kim founded Scalable Networks, a Gigabit-Ethernet switching startup. Scalable Networks was later acquired by FORE Systems in 1996. In 2000, Dr. Kim founded AcceLight Networks, an optical networking startup, and was CEO of AcceLight Networks until 2002. He founded and directed CyLab Korea, an international cooperative research center, in Carnegie Mellon University from 2004 to 2008. He is an author of over 100 published papers and holds over 10 patents in networking and computing technologies.
Javad Mohammadi is a special faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon as a research scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. As a graduate student, he received the innovation fellowship from Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. His research interests include energy system optimization and control, distributed computations, smart grid and Electrified transportation systems.
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- Technology and Creative Innovation
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- Technology and Creative Innovation
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- Associate Research Professor / Carnegie Mellon University
- Associate Research Professor of Electrical
Osman Yağan is an Associate Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to joining the faculty of the ECE department in August 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in CyLab at CMU. Dr. Yağan received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD in 2011, and his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey) in 2007. Dr. Yağan's research is on modeling, analysis, and performance optimization of networks and computing systems, and uses tools from applied probability, data science, machine learning, and network science. Specific research topics include statistical inference and decision making, privacy-preserving data analytics, robustness of cyber-physical systems with emphasis on critical infrastructure networks, secure and reliable design of large-scale ad-hoc networks with an increasing focus on emerging applications of Internet of Things, and information and influence propagation in social networks with a recent focus on detection and mitigation of spread of misinformation. Dr. Yağan has served as a Technical Program Committee member of several international conferences including IEEE Globecom, PIMRC, ICC, and WiOpt. He is a CIT Dean's Early Career Fellow, a Senior Member of IEEE.
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- Technology and Creative Innovation
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Research Professor in the ECE Departments at Carnegie Mellon University
Pei Zhang is an associate research professor in the ECE departments at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his bachelor's degree with honors from California Institute of Technology in 2002, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2008. While at Princeton University, he developed the ZebraNet system, which is used to track zebras in Kenya. It was the first deployed, wireless, ad-hoc, mobile sensor network for which he received the Test-of-Time award. His recent work focuses on utilizing the physical properties of devices and structures as a sensor to discover physical information that surrounds them. As part of this, his work combines machine learning-based data models, physics models, as well as heuristic models to improve the understanding of the sensing system. His approach is applied to the field of medicine, drones, farming and was part of a startup. His work has been featured in popular media including CNN, Science Channel, Discovery Channel, CBS News, CNET, Popular Science, BBC Focus, etc. In addition, he has won several awards including the NSF CAREER award, SenSys Test of Time Award, Google faculty award, and a member of the Department of Defense Computer Science Studies Panel.
Prof. José M. F. Moura is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at CMU. He holds a D.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Cambridge, MA, and his EE degree from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) (Portugal). His research interests are in data science, graph, signal, and image processing. He has been a visiting Professor at MIT and NYU. He has published over 550 journal and conference papers, given over 200 invited lectures, keynotes, and conference plenaries. He holds 15 patents, two of which, with A. Kavcic, have been used in over 3 billion hard disk drives in about 60% of all computers sold in the last 15 years, and that led to the largest intellectual property settlement of $750 Million, between CMU and a chip designer. He received several recognitions including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award and its Society Achievement Award, and CMU's Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award. He is the 2019 IEEE President, he is a Fellow of the IEEE, the AAAS, and the US National Academy of Inventors, a corresponding member of the Portugal Academy of Sciences, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineers.
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- Founder and Director of the Biometrics Center at Carnegie Mellon University
- Professor
Prof. Marios Savvides is the Founder and Director of the Biometrics Center at Carnegie Mellon University and is the Bossa Nova Robotics Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and CMU CyLab. He received his B.Eng in Microelectronics Systems Engineering from UMIST, U.K., his Masters of Science in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering also at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also one of the tapped researchers to form the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) 1st Center of Academic Excellence in Science and Technology (CASIS). His research is mainly focused on developing algorithms for robust face and iris biometrics as well as pattern recognition, machine vision and computer image understanding for enhancing biometric systems performance. He is on the program committee on several Biometric conferences such as IEEE BTAS, ICPR, SPIE Biometric Identification, IEEE AutoID and others as well as organizing and co-chairing Robust Biometrics Understanding the Science & Technology (ROBUST 2008) conference. He was an annual invited speaker at IDGA's main conference on Biometrics for National Security and Defense. He has authored and co-authored over 170 journal and conference publications, including several book chapters in the area of Biometrics and served as the area editor of the Springer's Encyclopedia of Biometrics. He helped co-develop the IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional (CBP) program and was on the main steering committee of the IEEE CBP program. His achievements include leading the R&D in CMU's past participation at NIST's Open Face Recognition Grand Challenge 2005 (CMU ranked #1 in Academia and Industry at hardest experiment #4) and also in NIST's Iris Challenge Evaluation (CMU ranked #1 in Academia and #2 against iris vendors) - his group was the only one to attempt both challenges. Prof. Savvides is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and in Marquis' Who's Who in Science & Engineering. He has filed over 20 patent applications in area of Biometrics and is the co-recipient of CMU's 2009 Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Outstanding Research Award.
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- George Westinghouse Professor
- Professor
Raj Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and co-director of the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Vehicular Information Technology Collaborative Research Lab. Perhaps you already think of your car as a "companion." Faculty like Rajkumar are thinking of ways to bring your vehicle to life with information technology - giving you a car that will know you and help you, inform and entertain you, and even take care of itself like a proper traveling companion. Rajkumar and other scientists like him explore the many intricate engineering domains of vehicle operation in their quest for some answers to what's possible in the cars of tomorrow.
Assistant Professor Sally Goldin has broad experience in research, industry and education. She earned bachelors and masters degrees from Brown University and a second masters and PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University. After receiving her doctorate, she worked for two years as Associate Computer Scientist at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. Subsequently, she moved from research to industry, where she spent more than twenty years as a software consultant, architect and development team leader. During this period, she and her partner created a start up to commercialize Dragon/ips®, the first remote sensing image processing software package for off-the-shelf personal computers. From 1984-1986, Dr. Goldin held the position of Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. She returned to Thailand in 2003 as a Foreign Expert at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), where she taught computer engineering and supervised graduate and undergraduate research. In 2012 she co-founded the KMUTT Geospatial Engineering and Innovation Center (KGEO), an interdisciplinary research and development center focused on solving problems involving spatial information gathering and analysis. In 2021, she joined CMKL University as an Assistant Professor, working to establish the new AICE bachelors degree program.
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- Associate Professor
- President
Supan Tungjitkusolmun serves as the president of CMKL University. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in 1995, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He joined Department of Electronics Engineering, School of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand in 2000. He is also currently an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, KMITL. His current research interests include finite-element modeling, radio frequency ablation, microwave ablation, signal processing, and image processing.
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- Trustee
- President and CEO of Thai Beverage Public Company Limited
Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi was appointed President and CEO of Thai Beverage Public Company Limited in 2008 following its listing in Singapore Exchange in 2006. Under his Vision 2020 to become the leading total beverage company in ASEAN, the company has acquired Oishi Group, Sermsuk PLC, Fraser & Neave Ltd, Myanmar Distillery Company, Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corporation and now owns a variety of restaurants from Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Western cuisine, including the recent acquisition of 252 outlets of KFC in Thailand. His recent undertaking has been to support the government's "Pracharath Rak Samakkee", a public-private partnership programme to help the economic development of local communities in the areas of agriculture, community tourism and product value creation. Thapana also founded C asean, a social enterprise to promote ASEAN connectivity, business and cultural promotions for young entrepreneurs. Under Thapana's leadership, ThaiBev was awarded the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for Emerging Markets in 2016 and World Level in 2017. Thapana has a Bachelor of Business Management (Finance) and a Master of Science Administration in Financial Economics from Boston University, USA
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- Associate Research Professor / Carnegie Mellon University
- Associate Research Professor With the Department of Electrical
Tze Meng Low is an Associate Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with an M.S.(C.S) in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2013. His research focuses on the systematic derivation and implementation of high-performance algorithms through the use of formal methods and analytical models. His goal is to achieve performance portability across both architectures and domains by understanding and capturing the interaction between software algorithms and hardware features through analytical models so as to build better code-generators, and/or software libraries for emerging domains and architectures.
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- Technology and Creative Innovation