An alumnus of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Dr. Kittichai Trairatanasiricha, has been reappointed the president of Khon Kaen University. The selection was formalized at the meeting of the Khon Kaen University Council held on 2 November 2014.

AIT’s Vehicle Watch System (V-Watch), a project developed by a team of researchers from Computer Science and Information Management and Industrial System and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, recently received a prize at Thailand’s 9th IT Princess Awards Competition in the category of Embedded Applications & Tools.

Israel’s Ambassador to Thailand, H.E. Mr. Simon Roded has stressed the need for greater innovation in universities. In his maiden visit to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 28 October 2014, the Ambassador invited senior AIT management to visit Israel, and obtain a first-hand experience of innovation in academic institutions.

The AIT School of Management (SOM) is a close runner-up to Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration as the best business school in Thailand, according to the 2014 ranking of the world’s top 1000 business schools by Paris-based Eduniversal.