Dr Simant Prakoonwit
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Biography
Dr Simant Prakoonwit, Associate Professor of AI Technology
BEng, MSc, PhD, DIC, MIEEE, MIET, FHEA
****NB: In June 2025, I'll move to the University of Southampton. During the transition period, please use my private email: Simant.Prakoonwit@ieee.org ****
After graduating with a BEng in Electronic Engineering (Medical Electronics), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Dr Prakoonwit won the British Government Scholarship to study in Britain. He began research in artificial intelligence/computer vision when studying for an MSc in Communications & Signal Processing at the Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.
He then completed his PhD in AI/computer vision applied to medicine, also at Imperial. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Imperial College’s Dept of Bioengineering on computer vision (grant from Home Office, UK). His work can be applied to both security, e.g. airport weapon and bomb scanning, and medical applications. His doctoral and postdoctoral research is patented by Imperial...
He joined the Dept of Systems Engineering, Brunel University, UK, as a lecturer in 2000. A year later, he received the Brunel Research Initiative Enterprise Fund Award for his work on AI applied to assistive technology.
In 2004, he took up a lectureship in AI biomedical engineering/cybernetics in the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. He also worked as a consultant to the UK Ministry of Defence (DSTL), supervising projects on intelligent security X-ray scanning. He joined the University of Bedfordshire in 2011 as a Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and the Postgraduate Academic Director.
Dr Prakoonwit moved to Bournemouth as an Associate Professor in 2015 (Head of Education until 2017). Currently, he teaches AI and works on many funded applied AI-related research projects. Currently, he is also the Department Postgraduate Lead.
Dr Prakoonwit has won research awards and recognitions, e.g. IEEE Innovation and Creativity Award, Brunel Research Initiative Enterprise Fund Award, Bedfordshire’s Rising Star/Research Investment Programme Award, best papers at conferences and journal special issues.
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Research topics
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Fraud/Behaviour Detection, Artificial Intelligence Applied to Business, Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired, 3D Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, 3D Reconstruction, Image Processing, Virtual Reality, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering/Simulation, Security X-ray, X-ray scanner.
Selected Current and Past Research Projects
- Artificial Intelligent Project: Artificial intelligence assisted virtual reality system for blockchain network
- Artificial Intelligent Projects: Novel artificial intelligent method for chain decision in blockchain technology
- Artificial Intelligent Project: Artificial intelligence framework for insurance industry
- Artificial Intelligent Project: Interactive visualisation guided hybrid artificial intelligent system for insurance fraud detection
- Artificial Intelligent/Assistive Technology: Improving orientation, mobility and wellbeing using assistive technology
- Computer Vision/Assistive Technology Project: Stereo-vision Positioning Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired
- Artificial Intelligent/Virtual Reality Project: Interactive Immersive Simulation and Visualisation System for Dental Radiography Training
-Artificial Intelligent Project: Intelligent Transportation Analytical Model for SMEs Coach Operators
-Artificial Intelligent Project: Car make and model recognition under limited lighting conditions at night
-Computer Vision Project: 3D multiview X-ray scanning for security applications...
-Computer Vision Project: Object 3D X-ray Modelling/Simulation/Imaging
-Computer Vision: 3D Multiview X-ray reconstruction
-Simulation/Biomedical Engineering Project: A Computational Biomechanical Analysis of Lateral Epicondylitis
-Simulation/Biomedical Engineering Project: Simulation of 3D constricted human airways model and 3D multiview X-ray scanning for security applications
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- Alarab, I. and Prakoonwit, S., 2023. Graph-Based LSTM for Anti-money Laundering: Experimenting Temporal Graph Convolutional Network with Bitcoin Data. Neural Processing Letters, 55 (1), 689-707.
- Alarab, I. and Prakoonwit, S., 2023. Uncertainty estimation based adversarial attack in multi-class classification. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 82 (1), 1519-1536.
- Alarab, I. and Prakoonwit, S., 2022. Effect of data resampling on feature importance in imbalanced blockchain data: Comparison studies of resampling techniques. Data Science and Management, 5 (2), 66-76.
- Boonsim, N. and Prakoonwit, S., 2017. Car make and model recognition under limited lighting conditions at night. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 20 (4), 1195-1207.
- Prakoonwit, S. and Benjamin, R., 2012. 3D surface reconstruction from multiview photographic images using 2D edge contours. 3D Research, 3 (4), 1-12.
- Murgia, A., Harwin, W., Prakoonwit, S. and Brownlow, H., 2011. Preliminary observations on the presence of sustained tendon strain and eccentric contractions of the wrist extensors during a common manual task: Implications for lateral epicondylitis. Medical Engineering and Physics, 33 (6), 793-797.
- Prakoonwit, S. and Benjamin, R., 2007. Optimal 3D surface reconstruction from a small number of conventional 2D X-ray images. Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, 15 (4), 197-222.
- Prakoonwit, S. and Benjamin, R., 2007. 3D surface point and wireframe reconstruction from multiview photographic images. Image and Vision Computing, 25 (9), 1509-1518.
- Benjamin, R. and Prakoonwit, S., 2005. 3D scanning by multiple fan beam X-ray sources and sensors. Sensor Review, 25 (1), 51-55.
- Koolpiruck, D., Prakoonwit, S. and Balachandran, W., 2004. Numerical modeling of inhaled charged aerosol deposition in human airways. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 40 (5), 1239-1248.
- Jirawimut, R., Prakoonwit, S., Cecelja, F. and Balachandran, W., 2003. Visual odometer for pedestrian navigation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 52 (4), 1166-1173.
- Benjamin, R., Prakoonwit, S., Matalas, I. and Kitney, R.I., 1996. Object-based three-dimensional X-ray imaging. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 34 (6), 423-430.