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1. 1OCTOBER 2016
Asian Institute of Technology OCTOBER 2016
T
he renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the his-
toric Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat
of the Indian President will now have an AIT
tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration
Project” at the President’s Secretariat will include 12
dwelling units that will be based on technologies re-
searched and developed at AIT.
H.E. Mr. Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone
of the 12 dwelling units on September 27, 2016 — an
event attended by AIT partners Dr. Praful R Naik,
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Recent News / Happenings at AIT...................................................2
Seminar / Workshops / Scholarships..............................................3
People / Alumni...............................................................................4
Photo Gallery..................................................................................5
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Director and CEO of Prashak Techno Enterprises,
and Dr. Siddharth Jabade.
Technologies that will be the basis of the renovation
includeinterlockingbricksdevelopedatAIT’sHabitech
Center, and two sanitation technologies (Anaerobic
Buffer Reactor, and Constructed Wetland) developed
under the Naturally Acceptable and Technologically
Sustainable (NATS) platform at AIT. Dr. Thammarat
Koottatep and Mr. Gyanendra Sthatip, along with AIT
Solutions, will play a lead role in this project.
President Pranab Mukherjee (center) at the foundation stone laying ceremony at Ashiana, Dehradun, India.
Indian President’s ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’ to
demonstrate innovative AIT technologies
2. 2OCTOBER 2016
RECENT NEWS / HAPPENINGS AT AIT
ADB officials interact with scholarship recipients
Royal Audience for AIT Scholarship recipients
Twenty-three recipients of His Majesty King’s Scholarships,
Her Majesty Queen’s Scholarships, and Loom Nam Khong
Pijai Scholarships were granted a Royal Audience by HRH
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the Chitralada Palace
on 28 September 2016. The scholarship recipients included
students of the August 2014 intake, who had just graduated
from AIT in May 2016.
The ceremony was attended by Dr. Subin Pinkayan, Chair-
man,AITBoard ofTrustees; Dr. Sahas Bunditkul, Chair of the
AIT Executive Committee; Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai,
A delegation of two officials of the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) visited AIT on 8 September 2016, and interacted
with senior officials of the AIT administration as well as
scholarship recipients.
Leading the delegation, Mr. Masashi Tanabe, Alternate
Executive Director for Japan, ADB, said that he was keen
to know more about the progress of the Asian Development
Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) scholarship
program. “We would like to meet the students and obtain
their feedback,” Tanabe said.
He was accompanied by Mr. Tatsuya Kanai, Advisor, Office
of Cofinancing Operations (OCO), ADB. Welcoming them
AIT scholarship recipients with ADB officials.
on behalf of AITwas Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto,
AIT’s Vice President for Administration.
President, AIT; Prof. Sivanappan Kumar and Mr. Surendra
Shrestha, AIT Vice Presidents; Dr Surachet Pravinvongvuth,
RTG Faculty Representative; Ms. Chalita Lertwinyu, Direc-
tor, Office of Host Country Relations (OHCR); Ms. Wannapa
Pliansri RTG Coordinator; Dr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Admissions
and Scholarships Coordinator, and Ms. Wilailuk Yooprem,
Senior Administrative Office, OHCR.
In an informal conversation after the ceremony, HRH Prin-
cess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who is herself anAITAlumna,
inquired about the current state of affairs of AIT. President
Worsak briefly reported to the HRH on AIT’s current finan-
cial health, the progress of campus renovation, and the soft
opening of the modernized library.
3. 3OCTOBER 2016
RECENT NEWS / HAPPENINGS AT AIT
AIT and UNU sign WEMS
licensing agreement
AIT and
United Na-
tions Univer-
sity (UNU)
have signed
a formal
l i c e n s i n g
agreement
for imple-
mentation of
Thirty-seven par-
ticipants from 19
countries partici-
pated in the 2016
Asia Pacific School
of Internet Gover-
nance organized by
intERLab from 12-
15 September 2016
at AIT.
intERLab hosts Asia Pacific
School of Internet Governance
From left: Dr. Jonathan Shaw, Prof. Worsak Kanok-
Nukulchai, Mr. Aijaz Shaikh and Mr. Arshad Memon.
APSIG participants at AIT.
AIT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the Irrigation Department, Sindh,
Pakistan to establish a framework of cooperation
AIT to help enhance capacity building under World Bank’s Sindh
Barrages Improvement Project
Hailing from top organizations including the Internet Cor-
poration for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Elec-
tronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Asia Pacific Network
Information Centre (APNIC), Com First (India), Korea Uni-
versity Open Net, Asia Pacific Institute for Digital Economy,
and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST), participants represented governments, internation-
al organizations, civil society, and the business sector. “The
Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG) serves
several hundred Internet governance experts and leaders in
Asia through courses on the Internet governance,” Prof. Kan-
chana Kanchanasut, Director, intERLab said.
Screenshot of WEMS software.
under the World-Bank funded Sindh Barrages Improvement
Project (SBIP). The MoU was signed by Prof. Worsak
Kanok-Nukulchai, President, AIT, and Mr Aijaz Shaikh,
Project Director, SBIP, Sindh Irrigation Department, on 26
September 2016.
The agreement will address five aspects of capacity building
including technical assistance, project management and
procurement, finance and administration, environment, and
communication and social development. Mr. Aijaz Shaikh,
Project Director, SBIP, stated that the overall objective of
the five-year project is to improve the reliability and safety of
the Guddu barrage and strengthen the capacity of the Sindh
Irrigation Department to operate and manage the barrage.
a project that assists in monitoring of wildlife
trafficking and illegal wildlife crime. Licens-
ing rights for the software platform, “Wildlife
Enforcement Monitoring System” (WEMS)
have been granted to AIT on a non-transfer-
able, royalty-free basis.
The agreement, signed by UNU Vice-Rector
and Executive Officer Mr. Max Bond, andAIT
President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai,
seeks to bring together national enforcement
institutions to a common data and reporting
mechanism. This shall be an important com-
ponent of the WEMS-Asia Secretariat at AIT
under the aegis of AIT Solutions.
4. 4OCTOBER 2016
PEOPLE / ALUMNI
CONDOLENCE
AIT Alumnus appointed President SCG
Cement Building Materials
AIT alumna Ms. Kamini
Rajbhandari has been appointed
as the new Managing Director
of the state-owned telecom
enterprise, Nepal Telecom. Her
appointment was announced
following a meeting of the Nepal
Council of Ministers held on
22 September 2016. The first
woman to hold this position,
she was earlier serving as Chief
Technical Officer (CTO) in the
same company.
AIT Alumna appointed MD of Nepal
Telecom
Ms. Kamini Rajbhandari
AIT Alumnus Mr. Aree
Chavalitcheewingul has been
appointed the next President of
SCG Cement Building Materials
Company Limited.
The decision was taken by the
Board of Directors of the Siam
Cement Public Company Limit-
ed, and it shall be effective from
1 January 2017.
Condolence meeting at AIT.
Mr. Aree Chavalitcheewingul
Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Director of the
Asian Center of Innovation for Sus-
tainable Agriculture Intensification
(ACISAI) and Regional Coordinator
of SRI-EC Project, passed away on 17
September 2016, at a hospital in Hy-
derabad, India.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar
passes away
She was also awarded “Outstanding Woman Engineers’Award” by
the Nepal Engineers Association (NEA) on the occasion of Engi-
neers Day.Agraduate of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh,
India (Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 1985); she complet-
ed her Master’s from AIT (Management of Technology, 2001).
An AIT alumnus (Agricultural Sys-
tems,1996), he served as a Research
Associate in Agricultural Systems
Engineering (ASE) in 1996-1997, and
left AIT to pursue his doctoral degree
in Germany. He returned to AIT in
2006 to serve as a Research Specialist
and became the Director of ACISAI
in 2013. He is survived by his wife,
Dr. Abha Mishra and two daughters,
Tanvi and Vagisha.
A condolence meeting was held in his
memory at AIT on 23 September 2016.
He has been serving as Executive Vice President at SCG Build-
ing Materials Co., Ltd. since July 2012. Mr. Chavalitcheewingul
received Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, Honors) from Chi-
ang Mai University (CMU) in 1985, Master of Engineering in
Industrial Engineering and Management from AIT in 1992, and
Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business
School (2011).
6. 6OCTOBER 2016
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Mr. Manat
Supasirilu, Executive
Secretary, AITAA
(Thailand), and Mr.
Paitoon Jiranantarat,
Managing Director,
Siam Yamato Steel
Co. Ltd., donated 250
AITAA (Thailand) donates 250 traffic
cones
When AIT conferred Honorary Doctorate on Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
HGST donates 2 KUKA robots
to AIT
traffic cones toAIT on behalf ofAITAA(Thailand). The gift
was received by AIT’s Vice President for Administration,
Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto; Dr. Surachet Pravinvongvuth, Mr.
Wanchai Sophonsakulrat,and Ms. Sitahng Puttha.
H G S T
( T h a i -
land) of
the West-
ern Digi-
tal group
has do-
nated two
sets of KUKA Robot, KR-16 model to AIT.
Prof. Manukid Parnichkun attended the dona-
tion ceremony on 30 September at the West-
ern Digital group in Bangpa-in Industrial Park,
Ayutthaya.