Wibool Piyawattanametha


Wibool Piyawattanametha is the head of Advanced Imaging Research Center, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand.

Education

Piyawattanametha completed his Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. He completed his post graduate degrees in Electrical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1999 and 2004.

Career

Piyawattanametha worked as a senior scientist and later became a research associate at Stanford University's Bio-X Program. He was a director of the advanced imaging research center and an adjunct professor in department of internal medicine at Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of medicine, Thailand from 2009 until 2014. He was a Fraunhofer Bessel awardee which provided him an opportunity to work as a technology consultant in microsystem technology at Fraunhofer IPMS, Dresden, Germany.
He is the head of Advanced Imaging Research Center, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand. He is also an adjunct professor at Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, US.

Committee and conference connections

He co-founded and served on the executive board of the Global Young Academy in Berlin, Germany, from 2010 to 2012. He is a current conference chairman for the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers in MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XIII of The Photonics West Conference in California, USA. He served as a committee member on Addressing Inaccurate and Misleading Information about Biological Threats through Scientific Collaboration and Communication, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC, USA, from 2021 to 2022.

Research

Piyawattanametha's research interests are in the fields of micro-electromechanical systems, cancer diagnosis, molecular imaging, AI, optical microscopy, and nanotechnology.

Awards and honors