Sirapat Boonkrong

Associate Professor Dr.Sirapat Boonkrong got his education (high school, Bachelor and Ph.D.) from the UK, specifically at the University of Bath (for the higher education). His Ph.D. thesis was titled "Authenticaion, Pre-Handoff and Handoff in Pure MANET", for which he received the Dissertation Award from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT).

After receiving his Ph.D. in computer science, he went back to his home country, Thailand, to begin a career as a researcher at NECTEC. At the same time, due to his expertise in networking and security, he was invited as a guest lecturer at a couple of universities. By then he realised that teaching would be the way to go, as he would like to spread his expertise and knowledge to more people. That was why he decided to leave his full-time research career behind.

Between August 2009 and August 2017, he was a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) mainly teaching in the field of information and computer network security to both Master and Ph.D. students. His final management position at KMUTNB was an Assistant to the President for Research Affairs and Information Technology.

Currently, Dr. Boonkrong is a full-time lecturer at the School of Information Technology and DIGITECH at Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and is still teaching and researching in the area of information security.

Dr. Boonkrong is now happily married with his wife, “Namwaan.” During his free time, he enjoys traveling with his wife and friends, which seems to suit his hobbies in collecting postcards and photography very well.