AIT’s Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut has been honored with the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for pioneering the spread of internet across Southeast Asia. Prof. Kanchana received the award at Seoul, South Korea, on 16 November 2016 on the occasion of the 97th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting.
Program Schedule Time Event 15:30 hours Registration 16:00 hours 18:30 hours Three-minute poster and Speech Competition Prize distributionAudience evaluation will provide for 30 per cent of the total points in selecting the final winner. Contact:Dr. Anil Kumar, PhDCoordinator; Food, Agriculture and Bio Systems ClusterAssociate Professor; Food Engineering and Bioprocess TechnologyAsian Institute of TechnologyPO Box 4; Klong Luang 12120, ThailandEmail: anilkumar@ait.
Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the implementation of the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) in Africa and Asia. Signing the MoU on 16 November 2016, Bonaventure Ebayi, Director, Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) stated that the adoption of WEMS in Asia is a positive development for wildlife conservation.
ScheduleAgenda1345 - 1400 Arrival and registration1400 - 1415 Welcome and Introduction by the AIT President, Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai1415 - 1500 Students’ Presentation on “Pushing the Global Citizen Agenda – Students’ Perspective”1500 - 1545 Open ForumA detailed poster can be downloaded from this link
This 2 week program is designed to provide concept and practice of Financial Inclusion and Microfinance as well as to provide a holistic perspective to participants.
Prominent AIT Alumnus and Member of AIT’s Institute-Level Advisory Board (ILAB), Prof. Tissa H Illangasekare was honored with the 7th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) at an award ceremony organized at the United Nations Headquarters on 2 November 2016. Presided by the UN Secretary General HE Ban Ki-moon and HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, the event was witnessed by 150 top diplomats and UN officials.
Twenty-five companies participated in the Career Fair held on 2 November 2015 at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Six of the companies were participating in the bi-annual event for the first time.