Arthit Suriyawongkul

Information engineer with cultural touch.
Broad experiences in software localization, human language technology R&D, application development, and formal/informal education.

Goal: Overcome cultural differences and information inaccessibility to enable global knowledge society. Accelerate the emergence of informed citizen in a free and participartory culture.

I'm currently a student of anthropology with focus on digital and urban cultures.

Arthit Suriyawongkul’s Specialties:

computational linguistics, natural language processing, automatic summarization, software internationalization/localization/translation, web design, ui design, online community/forum, university-level teaching, event organizer

Arthit Suriyawongkul’s Experience

Curriculum Designer

Mekong ICT Camp 2010

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

design the curriculum for social development organizations, new media practitioners, and activists in Mekong sub-region.
Committee

Thai Netizen Network

(Public Policy industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

promotes citizen rights in cyberspace
Pedestrian-in-Residence

Opendream Co., Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

research and prototype-development.
Committee

Campaign for Popular Media Reform

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Volunteer

Creative Commons Thailand Network

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

promotes Creative Commons in Thailand
Independent IT & Internet Consultant

NGOs

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Give advisory on IT/new media-related topics. Including topics on:
- intellectual property, particularly on software and content: free software, open source, open content, Creative Commons
- cyberspace culture: for issues on ethics, privacy, anonymity, censorship and surveillance
- free culture and participatory culture, Internet and outside
- Internet as a new media
- general website design/usability and other technical issues

Also blogs and arrange seminars on those topics.
Research Assistant

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

(Higher Education industry)

December 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 7 months)

สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนานาชาติสิรินธร มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์

Medical-related Knowledge Base project.

Collecting, annotating, extracting, mining, categorizing, processing,.. text from Thai medical websites.

Information extraction, data mining, ontology, natural language processing.
Research Assistant

University of Potsdam

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

March 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Research & development at AG Angewandte Computerlinguistik, Universität Potsdam (Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/ )
Building automatic text summarization system for German text
& document structure analyzer for English movie review text genre (Project SUMMaR).
Software Developer

ID Information und Dokumentation im Gesundheitswesen GmbH

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

Information and document management in medicine & health care. Berlin, Germany.

Responsible for developing rules for information extraction in German medical document, using JAPE and GATE. (Contract)
Teaching Assistant

Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

December 2000 — August 2003 (2 years 9 months)

ภาควิชาเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศ สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนานาชาติสิรินธร มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์

Responsible for:
* Supervising students in the lab class
* Preparing manual and instruction for lab experiments
* Preparing and evaluating assignments

In these computing subjects:
* Introduction to Programming (language: C, tool: Visual C++)
* Data Structure & Algorithms (language: C, tool: Visual C++)
* Operating System (language: C, tool: GNU C, platform: Solaris)
* Compiler Design (language: C, tools: GNU C, Lex, Yacc, platform: GNU/Linux)
* Object Oriented Analysis (language: Java, tools: JBuilder, Sun ONE Studio)
Localization Engineer

Sun Microsystems (Thailand) Ltd.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — June 2003 (3 years 3 months)

Thai localization on Java Runtime, Solaris, Mozilla/Netscape, OpenOffice.org