Sirin Nitinawarat, Ph.D.

Lecturer
02-218-6422
Sirin.N@chula.ac.th
Profile Summary
 
Dr. Sirin Nitinawarat obtained the B.S.E.E. degree from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, with first class honors, and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.  He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
   
He then turned his career to the industry working as a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, San Diego, California, USA, where he helped invented network technologies for cutting-edge smartphones for three years.
   
He then returned to Thailand as a lecturer at the International School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University. 

His current research interests are on data science, digital transformations, information security, information theory, public health, health and wellness, telemedicine, telecommunication and signal processing.

I am looking for talented and enthusiastic Ph.D. students/postdocs with a lifelong learning mind. I am also look for eager ISE students to start doing work for their projects earlier than only in the last year.  Please reach out by email.
 

Education
 
2004-2010   Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ,
                    University of Maryland, College Park​, MD, USA
                    Advisor: Prof. Prakash Narayan, Ph.D.
                              Dissertation: "Information Theoretic Secret Key Generation: Structured
                              Codes and Tree Packing"
 
2001-2003   M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin,
                    Madiso​n, WI, USA
                    Advisor: Prof. James A. Bucklew, Ph.D.
                              Research topic: Universal Simulation Distributions
 
2001            B.S. Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University,
                    Bangkok, Thailand
                    First Class Honors
 
 
Work Experience
 
2017-Present    Lecturer, International School of Engineering,
                         Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

2014-2017        Senior Systems Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,
                         San Diego, CA, USA

2011-2014        Coordinated Science Laboratory Electrical and
                         Computer Engineering, Post Doctoral Research Associate,
                         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
                         Advisor: Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Ph.D.
 
 
Courses taught
 
  • Systems Dynamics and Control​​
  • Principles of Information System
  • Advanced Computer Programming Laboratory
  • Computer Programming Laboratory
                                                                                       
Publications
 
Journal Papers
 
In Print
 
  • J.A. Bucklew, S. Nitinawarat and J. Wierer, “Universal Simulation Distributions,” IEEE  Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 50, no.11, pp. 2674-2685, November 2004.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, C. Ye, A. Barg, P. Narayan and A. Reznik, “Secret Key Generation for a Pairwise Independent Network Model,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6482-6489, December 2010.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and P. Narayan, “Perfect Omniscience, Perfect Secrecy and Steiner Tree   Packing,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6490-6500, December 2010.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and P. Narayan, “Secret Key Generation for Correlated Gaussian Sources,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 3373-3391, June 2012.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, “On the Deterministic Code Capacity Region of an Arbitrarily Varying Multiple-Access Channel Under List Decoding,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 2683-2693, May 2013.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, G. K. Atia and V. V. Veeravalli, “Controlled Sensing for Multihypothesis Testing,” IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 2451-2464, October 2013.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” IEEE  Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 4066-4082, July 2014.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Controlled Sensing for Sequential Multihypothesis Testing with Controlled Markovian Observations and Non-Uniform Control Cost,” Sequential Analysis: Design Methods and Applications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1-24, January 2015.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Scheme for Optimal Search and Stop,” Bernoulli, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1759-1784, August, 2017.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Sequential Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” Sequential Analysis: Design Methods and Applications, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 309-344, September 2017.
     
  • S. Triukose, S. Nitinawarat, Y. Poovorawan, et al. “Effects of Public Health Interventions on the Epidemiological Spread During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Thailand,” PLOS ONE, 16 (2): e0246274. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal, February 2021, corresponding author.
 
 
Conference Papers
 
  • K. Rashataprucksa, C. Chuangchaichatchavarn, S. Triukose, S. Nitinawarat, M. Pongprutthipan and K. Piromsopa, “Acne Detection with Deep Neural Networks,” to be presented at the 2020 2nd International Conference on Image Processing and Machine Vision on August 5-7, 2020, pp. 53-56.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, A. Meylan, and S. Veerepalli, “TCP Mitigation for Concurrent RAT-Capable User Equipments,” QTech, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, USA, June 28-30, 2016.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Quickest Outlier Detection and Isolation,” presented at IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Hong Kong, China, June 14-June 19, 2015.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat, and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Outlier Hypothesis Testing: Application to Anomaly Detection,” presented at IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., Brisbane, Australia, April 19-24, 2015, invited paper.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Scheme for Optimal Search and Stop,” Proc. Inf. Theory  and Applicat. Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 1-6, 2015, pp. 1-5, invited paper.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Sequential Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” Proc. 48th Annu. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. and Comput., Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 2-5, 2014, pp. 281-285, invied paper.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Sequential Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29-July 4, 2014, pp. 3205-3209 (same title as 3; the former has additional results).
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Multiple Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Workshop Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Process.,   Saint Martin, December 15-18, 2013, pp. 177-180.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Controlled Sensing for Sequential Hypothesis Testing with Non-Uniform Sensing Cost,” Proc. 47th Annu. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. and Comput., Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 3-6, 2013, pp. 1095-1099.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Controlled Sensing for Multihypothesis Testing Based on Markovian Observations,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 7-12, 2013, pp. 2199-2203.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Outlier Hypothesis Testing,” Proc.IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 7-12, 2013, pp. 2666-2670.
     
  • Y. Li, S. Nitinawarat and V. V. Veeravalli, “Universal Outlier Detection,” Proc. Inf. Theory and Applicat. Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 10-15, 2013, pp. 1-5, invited paper.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, G. K. Atia and V. V. Veeravalli, “Controlled Sensing for Hypothesis Testing,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012, pp. 5287-5280.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, G. K. Atia and V. V. Veeravalli, “Efficient Target Tracking using Mobile Sensors,” Proc. 4th IEEE Int. Workshop Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Process., San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 13-16, 2011, pp. 405-408.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, “On Maximal Error Capacity Regions of Symmetric Gaussian Multiple-Access Channels,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 31-August 5, 2011, pp. 2269-2273.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, “On the Deterministic Code Capacity Region of an Arbitrarily Varying Multiple-Access Channel Under List Decoding,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Austin, TX, USA, June 13-18, 2010, pp. 290-294, finalist for best student paper award.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and P. Narayan, “Perfect Secrecy and Combinatorial Tree Packing,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Austin, TX, USA, June 13-18, 2010, pp. 2622-2626.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, C. Ye, A. Barg, P. Narayan and A. Reznik, “Perfect Secrecy, Perfect Omniscience and Steiner Tree Packing,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Seoul, Korea, June 28-July 3, 2009, pp. 1288-1292.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, C. Ye, A. Barg, P. Narayan and A. Reznik, “Common Randomness, Multiuser Secrecy and Tree Packing,” Proc. 46th Annu. Allerton Conf. Commun., Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 23-26, 2008, pp. 217-220, invited paper.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, “Secret Key Generation for Correlated Gaussian Sources,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 6-11, 2008, pp. 702-706, invited paper.
  • S. Nitinawarat, C. Ye, A. Barg, P. Narayan and A. Reznik, “Secret Key Generation for a Pairwise Independent Network Model,” Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 6-11, 2008, pp. 1015-1019.
     
  • S. Nitinawarat, “Secret Key Generation for Correlated Gaussian Sources,” Proc. 45th Annu. Allerton Conf. Commun., Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 26-28, 2007, pp. 1054-1058 (same title as 17; the former has additional results).
     
  • S. Nitinawarat and N. Boston, “A Complete Analysis of Space-time Group Codes,” Proc.  43th Annu. Allerton Conf. Commun., Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 28-30, 2005.
     
 
 
Patents
 
  • A. Venkatsuresh, A. Mitra, S. R. Mudireddy, G. S. Chhabra, A. Meylan, S. Nitinawarat, V. Kumar, S. Nair and N. Somani, “Transport Protocol Communications Reduction,” U. S. Granted, 9876613, January 23, 2018.
 
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