Kulsawasd "Bo" Jitkajornwanich

Biography

Kulsawasd "Bo" Jitkajornwanich [pronounced as "kun-swat bo jit-kjorn-wa-nid"] (Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2014, The University of Texas at Arlington) is an assistant professor in the Department of Professional Communication at the College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University. Building on his work on big spatial data analysis, spatio-temporal data modeling and mining concepts, geographic information systems (GIS), NOSQL databases, he is moving his computational and data science research to social media and communication. His research to date applies computational and data science techniques to environment monitoring, precision agriculture, and disaster management. He has more than 40 publications (journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, etc.) to date, and has received more than 470 citation counts, with an h-index of 12, an i10-index of 14, according to Google Scholar.

Research

Methodologies

Selected Publications

• K. Thananukhun, S. Jaiyen, K. Jitkajornwanich and A. Hanskunatai, "Question Classification for Thai Conversational Chatbots Using Artificial Neural Networks and Multilingual BERT Models," 2023 15th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), Phuket, Thailand, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/KST57286.2023.10086784.
• M. Chansuparp and K. Jitkajornwanich, "LifeGuard: An Improvement of Actor-Critic Model with Collision Predictor in Autonomous UAV Navigation," Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2022, 36:1, DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2022.2137632
• K. Jitkajornwanich, N. Pant, M. Fouladgar and R. Elmasri, "A Survey on Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Database Research and An Original Example of Relevant Applications Using SQL Ecosystem and Deep Learning," Journal of Information and Telecommunication, 2020, 4:4, 524-559, DOI: 10.1080/24751839.2020.1774153
• K. Jitkajornwanich et al., "Utilizing Twitter Data for Early Flood Warning in Thailand," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Seattle, WA, USA, 2018, pp. 5165-5169, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2018.8621961.

Teaching Focus

Teaching focus

• Computational Communication Research
• Social Media Analytics
• Media Insights & Data Analytics
• Data Visualization & Storytelling with Tableau
• Intro to Big Data for Communication

Leadership & Awards

• 2019-22 European Union Grant entitled "Educational Training Centers for Automation in Thailand" (ETAT, Total Funded: EUR 93,464.00), funded by the "Erasmus+" Programme (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), European Union, Kulsawasd Jitkajornwanich (Co-PI at KMITL).
• 2021 Community Outreach and Engagement Award for "Tawai For Health" (a cloud platform for reporting, recording, analyzing, detecting, and predicting questionable health products as well as their side effects, fake claims) from Prince of Songkla University
• 2019 National Dissertation Award from the National Research Council of Thailand
• 2018 Faculty Contribution to University Research Visibility Award from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand (KMITL).