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Education

 
  • Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007 - Present)
    Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
    Advisor: Prof. Ozan Tonguz
  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006)
    Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
  • B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006)
    Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
    Minor: Economics and Mathematics GPA: 3.95/4.00

Publications

 

Journal

  • W. Viriyasitavat, F. Bai, and O.K. Tonguz "UV-CAST: An Urban Vehicular Broadcast Protocol," IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Automotive Network Series, November 2011.
  • W. Viriyasitavat, O.K. Tonguz, and F. Bai, "Dynamics of Network Connectivity in Urban Vehicular Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Networkings, March 2010.
  • O.K. Tonguz, W. Viriyasitavat, and F. Bai, "Modeling Urban Traffic: A Cellular Automata Approach,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Automotive Network Series, May 2009.

Conference

  • W. Viriyasitavat, F. Bai, and O.K. Tonguz, "Toward End-to-end Control in VANETs," IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2011.
  • W. Viriyasitavat, F. Bai, and O.K. Tonguz, "UV-CAST: An Urban Vehicular Broadcast Protocol," IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Jersey City, USA, December 2010.
  • M. Ferreira, R. Fernandes, H. Conceicao, W. Viriyasitavat, and O.K. Tonguz, "Self-organized Traffic Control," ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking (VANET 2010), Chicago, USA, September 2010.
  • W. Viriyasitavat, O.K. Tonguz, and F. Bai, "Network Connectivity of VANETs in Urban Areas,", IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Rome, Italy, June 2009.

Patent

 
  • M. Ferreira, O.K. Tonguz, R. Fernandes, H. Conceicao, and W. Viriyasitavat, "Methods, Apparatuses, and Systems for In-Vehicle Traffic Lights Enabled by Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication." (Submitted July 2010)

Selected Class Projects

 
  • Cognitive State Classication with Magnetoencephalography Data, Fall 2009
  • VanWiFi: Internet Access for moving vehicles, Spring 2008
  • Feasibility of RFID-based Intra-car Wireless Sensor Network, Spring 2006
  • Improving MPEG-4, Spring 2005

Teaching Experience

 

Carnegie Mellon University

  • Teaching Assistant for ECE 18-751: Applied Stochastic Processes, Fall 2008, 2009
  • Project Leader for ECE 18-756: Wireless Networks, Spring 2008
  • Grader for ECE 18-100: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Spring 2004, 2005
  • Lab Assistant, SCS Habermann Computing classroom, Fall 2003

Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Instructor for 2 courses: Local Area Networks (senior-level) and Computer data Communication (junior-level), 2006-2007.

Awards and Activities

 

Carnegie Mellon University

  • ECE Research Assistant, 2007-Present
  • Peer Tutor, Academic Development, 2004-Present
  • One (of the two) CMU-nominated applicant to Google PhD Fellowship Program, 2011
  • Graduate Student Vice President, Thai Students Association, 2008-2010
  • Participant, CRA-W Grad Cohort (Sponsored by Google and Microsoft),2010
  • Campus Ambassador, Direct Energy, 2008
  • Inducted to Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, 2006
  • Departmental Honor, 2006
  • Senior Leadership Award, 2006
  • Dean's list Award, 2002-2006

Others

  •   Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Thailand, 2001-2006
  •   Gold Medalist, Thailand Mathematics Olympics Camp, 2000

Relevant Courses

 
Network Modeling and Inference (Moura), Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Satyanarayanan, Siewiorek), Wireless Networks (Tonguz), Applied Stochastic Process (Tonguz), Machine Learning (Bar-Joseph), Algorithm Design and Analysis (Blum), Network Design and Evaluation (Steenkiste), Multimedia Communications: Coding, Systems, and Networking (Chen), Wireless Communications (Negi), Digital Signal Processing (Stern), Information Theory and Coding (Negi), Telecommunication Technology Policy and Management (Sirbu), Introduction to Security and Policy (Perrig), Constrained Statistical Optimization (Apt, Talukdar), Intermediate Statistics (Wasserman), Numerical Methods (Walkington), Real Analysis I, II (Leoni)