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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
After graduating with a BEng from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Dr Prakoonwit won the British Government's Colombo Plan Scholarship to continue his studies in Britain.
He began research in 3D computer vision when he was studying for an MSc in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, the University of London (now Imperial College London).
His interest in the research continued when he undertook his PhD research on reconstruction and modelling of 3D human internal organs in the Biomedical Systems Group at Imperial College.
He developed a complex 3D surface reconstruction method from a small set of 2D X-ray images, applied 3D computer graphics in medicine and developed methods to display and manipulate 3D objects on a computer.
After gaining his PhD, Dr Prakoonwit worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Biological and Medical Systems (now Department of Bioengineering) also at Imperial College. His postdoctoral research was the development of optimum and accurate computerised 3D reconstruction methods from X-ray images. The work was partly supported by a grant from then the Home Office’s Police Scientific Development Branch, UK. His work can be applied to both security applications, e.g. airport weapon and bomb scanning, and medical applications, e.g. optimum 3D human organ reconstruction. The 3D X-ray work done in Dr Prakoonwit’s doctoral and postdoctoral research is patented by Imperial College.
Having completed his postdoctoral research and gained extensive expertise in computerised 3D computer vision and biomedical engineering, he joined the Department of Systems Engineering, at Brunel University, UK, as a lecturer in October 2000. A year later, he received the Brunel Research Initiative Enterprise Fund (BRIEF) Award. Dr Prakoonwit left Brunel University, in September 2004 to take up a lectureship in biomedical engineering/cybernetics in the School of Systems Engineering, the University of Reading, UK. While at Reading, he also worked as a consultant to the UK Ministry of Defence (DSTL), supervising a research project on X-ray imaging for security applications. In September 2011, he joined University of Bedfordshire, UK, as a Principal Lecturer in Computer Science.
Dr Prakoonwit has won awards and recognitions for his research, such as the IEEE Innovation and Creativity Prize Award, Brunel Research Initiative Enterprise Fund Award, best papers at conferences and invitations to submit to journal's special issues.
3D Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, 3D Reconstruction, Image processing, Virtual Reality, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering/Simulation.
Some past and present projects
Dr Simant Prakoonwit
Department of Computer Science and Technology
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU
E: simant.prakoonwit@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 400 400 ext 2196
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