BOON OOI
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Technology Innovation Center for Solid State Lighting at KAUST
Principal Investigator, Photonics Laboratory
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Title: Laser-based Gbps Visible Light Communication
Areas of expertise and current scientific interests
Boon Ooi’s recent research is concerned with the study of III-Nitride based materials and devices, and lasers for applications such as solid-state lighting, visible light and underwater wireless optical communications, energy harvesting devices, and optical sensors.
Career recognitions
Boon Ooi is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the Institute of Physics (U.K.).
Professional and editorial activities
He is a regular grant panelist and reviewer of NSF (USA), NSERC (Canada), A*STAR and NRF (Singapore), Dutch Technology Foundation STW (Netherlands), FPS (Poland), ELIDEK (Greece), RGC (Hong Kong), QNRF (Qatar) and KACST (KSA). He has been the organizing chair for several IEEE, OSA, SPIE and MRS conferences, and served on the technical program committee of CLEO, IPC, Photonics West, ISLC, and IEDM. In KSA, he founded the IEEE Photonics Society Western Saudi Arabia Chapter and has been serving as the Chapter Chair since 2010. He was the Guest Editor for the Journal Crystal Growth (Elsevier) in 2006/7, and Applied Physics A (Springer) in 2013/14, and Lead Editor of a Feature Issue of Optics Express with 2018/2019.
He has served on the editorial board of the OSA Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Journal, and SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics
ASSISTANT PROF. DR. WASANA BOONSONG
Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Thailand
Title: Smart environments for all: the path to technologically enhanced human well-being
Wasana Boonsong was born in Muang Nakon-Sri Thammarat Province, Thailand; she received her B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2002, and the M.S. Degree in Technical Education of Electrical Technology (Electronics Engineering) at King Mongkut'sUniversity of Technology North Bangkok in 2009.
She graduated with her Pd.D. in October 2016 from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. She is a Lecturer and Assistant Dean for Research and International Affairs with the Academic Position of an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Education and Technology, the Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya (RUTS), Songkhla, Thailand. Her research areas are Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wireless Sensor networks (WSN), Embedded systems, data monitoring, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.