Innovative Interdisciplinary Research: Do and Don't Prabhas Chongstitvatana Department of Computer Engineering Chulalongkorn University

Innovation A new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

My expertise: Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), Robotics, Digital circuits.

Interdisciplinary EA + Operational research EA + microarray + cancer EA + metallurgy EA + IE EA + Med (denkie virus) EA + Med (Thalassimia) EA + EE EA + Biochem

Results Eamsiri, J., Malasit, P., Songsivilai, S., Chongstitvatana, P., "Intelligent tutor program in medical teaching", Proc. of the regional symposium on computer science and its applications, Bangkok, Vatanawood, W. and Chongstitvatana, P., "A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Software Components Search", Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering, Bangkok, 1999, pp Wattanapornprom, W., Nupairoj, N. and Chongstitvatana, P., "Improving the performance of BLAST in a memory limited environment", Int. Conf. on Bioinformatics, Thailand, 6-8 Feb

Results Rodkaew, Y., Siripant, S., Lursinsap, C., Chongstitvatana, P., Fujimoto, T. and Chiba, N., "Modeling Leaf Shapes Using L-systems and Genetic Algorithms", Int. Conf. NICOGRAPH, April, Japan, Rodkaew, Y, Chongstitvatana, P., Siripant, S. and Lursinsap, C., "Particle Systems for plant modeling", Int. Symposium on Plant growth Modeling, simulation, visualization and their Applications, October 13-16, 2003, Beijing (P.R.China). Rodkaew, Y., Chongstitvatana, P., Siripant, S. and Lursinsap, C., "Modeling Plant Leaves in Marble-Patterned Colours with Particle Transportation System", 4th Int. Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, France, 7-11 June Rodkaew, Y., Chuai-aree, S., Siripant, S., Lursinsap, C. and Chongstitvatana, P., "Animating Plant Growth in L-System By Parametric Functional Symbols", Int. J. of Intelligent Systems vol.19, no.1/2, 2004.

Results Sumanon, P., Chongstitvatana, P. and Suriyapol, P., "Major SNPs Sequence Assembling Simulation of Dengue Virus Genome from Massively Parallel Sequencing Technique", National Computer Science and Engineering Conf., Nov. 2008, Thailand. Hengpraprohm, S. and Chongstitvatana, P., "Feature Selection by Weighted-SNR for Cancer Microarray Data Classification", International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ISSN ), vol 5, no. 12(A), December 2009, pp. 4627–4635. Rimcharoen, S., Sutivong, D., Chongstitvatana, P., "Real options approach to evaluating genetic algorithms," Applied Soft Computing, Vol 9, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages Chedtha Puncreobutr, Gobboon Lohthongkum, Prabhas Chongstitvattana, Boonrat Lohwongwatana,"Modeling of Reflow Temperatures and Wettability in Lead-free Solder Alloys using Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms," Symposium of Pb-Free Solders and Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Technologies (TMS 2010), February , 2010, Seattle, USA.

Ideas Your expertise is very important Collaboration does not mean less work A lot of times you have to go alone Knowing your collaborator is very important Sincerity is the best ingredient You are not going to get it right the first time