35 students awarded prizes of excellence during 113th Graduation

35 students awarded prizes of excellence during 113th Graduation

Thirty-five students from different fields of study were
awarded prizes for academic excellence during the 113th
Graduation of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) held on 26 May
2010. The list of all award winners along with their program and name
of award is as follows:

 Name 

Program 

Award 

 Thesis / Research Study / Coursework 

   School of
Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)


Mr. Justin Arnold Finch

 

Agribusiness Management

 

Mahadeo N. Salokhe Memorial Prize

 

Research Study: Perception of Young Educated Consumers Towards
Ready-to-Drink Milk Brands in Bangkok 

 

Mr. Amandeep Singh Sangha

Thesis : Role of ICT in the agriculture sector: A study of
progressive farmers, Malwa region, Punjab, India

 

 

 Ms.  Hengodage  Nirmalee  Bhagya
 Wijayalath

 

Agricultural Systems and Engineering

 

Y.Y. Kishida Prize

 

 

Thesis: Biological Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease Caused by
Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato with Candida ethanolica and
Enterobacter cloacae by Modifying Carbohydrate Source and Soil
PH 

 


Mr. Keerthi Sri Senarathna Atapaththu

 

Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management

C. Kwei Lin Prize

 


Thesis: Evaluation of Adopted Best Management Practices in Shrimp
Farming in Sri Lanka, Using Life Cycle Assessment

 

 

 

Mr. Dinesh Rangana Gurusinghe 

Energy

 

Yoshiro Takasaki Prize

 

Thesis: Saddle Node Bifurcation and Voltage Stability Analysis by
Particle Swarm Optimization

 


Mr. Agapol Pukprayura

 

 

Thesis: Optimal Under-voltage Load Shedding for Northeastern EGAT
System

 

 

 

Ms. Tanya Udom

Environmental Engineering and Management

 

Robert B. Banks Prize

 

 

Thesis: Pathogen Flow Analysis and Potential Health Risks due to
Greywater Reuse in Thailand

 

 

 

Ms. Kaushalya C. Wijekoon 

Environmental Engineering and Management (with specialization in
Water and Wastewater Engineering)

 

Chongrak Polprasert Prize

 

 

Thesis: High Rate Thermophilic Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for
Wastewater Treatment

 

 

 

Mr. Sukrit TermsaithongSukrit Termsaithong_DSC_4561 ok.jpg 

Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology

 

Hisamatsu Prize

 

 

Thesis: Evaluation of Postharvest Handling for Two Culinary Herbs:
Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) and Rocket Salad (Diplotaxis
tenuifolia)

 

 

 

Ms. Duangsamorn JatupornpimolDuangsamorn Jatupornpimol_DSC_4989 ok.jpg 

Gender and Development Studies

 

Alastair M. North Prize

 

 

Thesis: State Response to Intimate Partner Violence in Thailand

 

 

 

Mr. Binaya PasakhalaBinaya Pasakhala_DSC_6186.jpg 

Natural Resources Management

 

Tim Kendall Memorial Prize

 

Thesis: Assessing the Vulnerability of People’s Livelihood in
Far-Western Nepal: Implications on Adaptation to Climate Change

 

Ms. Merina Lohani SitoulaMerina L S_DSC_7080.jpg

 

Thesis: An Assessment of Foreign Land Acquisition Processes in Four
GMS Countries: Case Studies of  Impacts on Livelihoods in Cambodia
and Lao PDR

 

 

 

Mr. Ma Tien Chuong

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Pulp and Paper Technology

 

James A. Linen III Memorial Prize

 

 

Thesis: Effects of Process and Wet End Variables on Alum-Cationic
Rosin Sizing & Comparisons with Pac-Cationic Rosin and AKD
Sizing

 

 

 

Mr. Young Sokphea

Young Sokphea_DSC_6588.jpg 

Regional and Rural Development Planning

 

James A. Linen III Memorial Prize

 

 

Thesis: Governance of Decentralized Commune Development Planning in
Cambodia: Case Studies of Commune Councils in Battambang
Province

 

 

Mr. Nurrohman Wijaya

Nurrohman Wijaya_DSC_6069.jpg 

Urban Environmental Management

 

John A. Hrones Prize

 

 

Thesis: An Assessment of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions
Related to Urban Residential Density in A Developing City: A Case Study
of Bandung City, Indonesia 

 

 

Mr. Dinesh Rangana Gurusinghe

Most Outstanding Graduate in SERD

 

AIT Alumni Association Prize

 

 

Thesis: Saddle Node Bifurcation and Voltage Stability Analysis by
Particle Swarm Optimization

 

 

 

Ms. Hengodage Nirmalee Bhagya Wijayalath

 

Most Outstanding Women Graduates in SERD

 

Yoh Kurosawa Prize

 

 

Thesis: Biological Control of Bacterial Wilt Disease Caused by
Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato with Candida ethanolica and
Enterobacter cloacae by Modifying Carbohydrate Source and Soil PH

 

 

Ms. Tanya Udom 

 

 

Thesis: Pathogen Flow Analysis and Potential Health Risks due to
Greywater Reuse in Thailand

 

Ms. Merina Lohani SitoulaMerina L S_DSC_7080.jpg

 

 

 

Thesis: An Assessment of Foreign Land Acquisition Processes in Four
GMS Countries: Case Studies of Impacts on Livelihoods in Cambodia and
Lao PDR

 

 

   
School of Management (SOM) 

 

Mr. Avishek ChakravartiAvishek Chakravarti_DSC_4184 ok.jpg 

Business Administration

 

 

Tim Kendall Memorial Prize

 

 

Coursework only

 

 

Mr. Vivek Krishna Chandrakasan

Vivek K Chandrahasan_DSC_4361 ok.jpg 

Most Outstanding Graduate in SOM

 

AIT Alumni Association Prize

 

Project: Financial Risk Management : Theories, Models and
Practices

 

 

Ms. Prakriti Paudel

Prakriti Pavdel_DSC_3588oK[1].jpg 

SOM

 

Shoichiro Toyoda Prize

 

 

Coursework only

 

 

 School of Engineering and Technology
(SET)
 

 

Mr. Ekarin Supataratarn

Ekarin Supataratarn_DSC_4381 ok.jpg 

Computer Science

 

 

Hisamatsu Prize

 

 

Thesis: Objective Outcome Scoring in a Dental Surgical Simulator

 

 

 

Mr. Patipol Treerojporn

Patipol T_DSC_7710ok.jpg 

Information Management

 

 

James A. Linen III Memorial Prize

 

 

Research Study: Auditory Displays of Data for Dual Tasks: Design and
Evaluation for a Vehicle Operator in a Factory Environment

 

 

Mr. Pandhapon Sombuntham

Pandhapon S_DSC_6977.jpg 

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

 

 

Tim Kendall Memorial Prize

 

Thesis: PSO Algorithms for Generalized Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing
Problems with Pickup and Delivery Requests

 

 

 

Ms. Thawanporn Suthamviwat

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 

 

Yoshiro Takasaki Prize

 

 

Thesis: Enhancing a Design by Customer for Multi-Color Nested
Pattern Products

 

Mr. Apisit Aroonnual 

 

Mechatronics 

 

Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 

 

Thesis: Vision-Based Automatic Hovering Control of a Small-Scale
Unmanned Helicopter

 

 

Mr. Sarayut AmornwongpeetiSarayut A_DSC_5991.jpg

Microelectronics

 

 

Infineon Prize

 

 

Thesis: A Fourth-order Cascaded Multi-bit Delta-Sigma Modulator with
Interstage Feedback Paths

 

 

 

Ms. J Elaine J. LayugJ Elaine Layug_DSC_7154.jpg

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

 

John A. Hrones Prize

 

 

Thesis: Development of a Low Cost Bathymetric Mapping System for
Tsunami Inundation Modeling

 

 

 

Mr. Nawat Luangviriyasaeng

Nawat Luangviriyasaeng_DSC_7498ok.jpg

Telecommunications

 

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Prize

 

 

Thesis: Resource Allocation in Cellular Relay Networks Using Network
Coding 

 

 

 

Mr. Laddu Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe

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Best Thesis in TC and ICT

 

 

A B Sharma Memorial Prize

 

 

Thesis: Analysis of Cooperative Relay Communication with Cognitive
Radio, Physical Layer Network Coding and MIMO

 

 

 

Mr. Suneth Namal Karunarathna

Suneth N K_DSC_7763ok.jpg

Information & Communication Technologies

 

Aoyagi Prize

 

 

Thesis: Technology Challenges for Context Aware Multimedia
Services

 

 

 

Mr. Truong Ngoc Quy 

 

Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Management 

Mahesh Varma Prize 

 

Thesis: Current Practices of Public Private Partnership in
Low-Income Housing Development in Vietnam

 

Mr. Panupong DangyeunyongPanupong Dangyeunyong_DSC_6220.jpg

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Chin Fung Kee Prize

 

 

Thesis: Evaluation of Low Resistivity HC-Bearing Formation

 

Mr. Rojit ShahiRojit Shahi_DSC_5799.jpg

Structural Engineering

 

Wen Jei Yang Prize

 

 

Thesis: Effective Modeling of Shear Walls in High Rise Buildings for
Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analysis

 

Mr. Ajay Khatri Chettri

Transportation Engineering

 

Barbara and John Hugh Jones Prize

 

 

Thesis: The Development of Land-Use and Transportation Integrated
Model for Urban Sustainability Evaluation

 

 

 

Mr. Bikesh Shrestha 

 

 

Water Engineering and Management

 

Chainarong Na Lamphun Prize

 

 

Thesis: Impact of Biofuel Production on Hydrology: A Case Study of
Khlong Phlo Watershed in Thailand

 

Mr. Laddu Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe

Laddu KS Jayasinghe_DSC_6430.jpg

Most Outstanding Graduate in SET

 

 

AIT Alumni Association Prize

 

Thesis: Analysis of Cooperative Relay Communication with Cognitive
Radio, Physical Layer Network Coding and MIMO

 

 

 

Ms. J Elaine J. LayugJ Elaine Layug_DSC_7154.jpg

Most Outstanding Woman Graduate in SET

 

 

Hiromichi Seya Prize

 

 

Thesis: Development of a Low Cost Bathymetric Mapping System for
Tsunami Inundation Modeling