Withawat Withayachumnankul was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1980. From 1996 to 2002, he was educated at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang (KMITL), in his hometown, where he obtained the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electronics Engineering. From 2003 to present, he served at his alma mater as a lecturer, responsible for computer programming couses in the Department of Information Engineering. In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide, under Prof Derek Abbott, with research interest in terahertz signal processing. In 2006, he was granted an Australian Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) and University of Adelaide Scholarship for Postgraduate Research to study toward his PhD under Prof Derek Abbott, Dr Bernd Fischer, and Dr Samuel Mickan, within the Adelaide T-ray group, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide. His PhD research topic revolves around engineering aspects of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, i.e., signal processing, system optimization, and component design. During his PhD candidature, Mr Withayachumnankul received an IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship, 2008, SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering, 2008, award for the poster presentation at the SPIE Symposium on Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, Canberra, Australia, 2007, and contingency travel grant of the SPIE, 2007.
Current position
- Lecturer
Department of Information Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Thailand - PhD candidate (Australian IPRS scholarship)
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Education
- M. Eng. in Electronics Engineering, KMITL, 2003
- B. Eng. in Electronics Engineering (Honours), KMITL, 2001
Research interests
- Metamaterials
- T-ray technology (terahertz, 1e12 Hz, THz)
Awards & scholarships
- 2008 IEEE LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship
- 2008 SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering
- 2007 A winner of the poster presentation at the SPIE Symposium on Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, Canberra, Australia
- 2007 Contingency Travel Grant for the SPIE Symposium on Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, Canberra, Australia
- 2006 Australian Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) & University of Adelaide Scholarship for Postgraduate Research
