ECTI-CON 2009

Last Thursday, I had been to ECTI international conference to give one presentation of my paper, Joint Flow Control, Routing, and Medium Access Control in Random Access Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Time Varying Link Capacities. On the way to the event, I went with my adviser and my SriLanka friend, Dr. Poompat and Buddhika. We arrived at the conference around 10am. After an anxious lunch, I had escaped away for a last-minute practice. Then, at 2:20pm, I presented my paper with presentation slides.

Sucha's Presentation at ECTI-CON 09

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Totally, I had only 20 minutes for both speaking and Q&A. The presentation did not go well at the beginning. Many people could notice my anxiety and shaking voice. After some slides, in the middle of the presentation, my consciousness came back to me, and I could focus. As a result, the presentation went well from then. I used approximately 15 minutes for speaking. The 5-minute Q&A was ok. There were three questions asked from audiences and the session chair, Dr. Chaodit. The first two questions were answered properly. However, the answer of last question from the chair did not satisfy me. Actually, the question was one of things to be considered in this work. At that time, I felt too stressed; therefore, even I had an explanation, I did not give reasons, but just went straight to an answer without providing details. Anyway, it was a good experience for me, and the question was good.

All presentation on the day finished about 6pm. We went to change our cloth to ECTI's provided T-shirt, looked like the one for beach. The dinner started at 6.30pm. Beside the food which was OK, there was another excitement announce from a stage that my paper received the best paper award. Well, it was the first time for me that I attended to a conference and got the best paper award. I could not tell how excitement it was. :) I received the award from Prof. Prabhas Chongstitvattana.



The day after, my friend, Sailesh, came to present his work. Then, we went back to Bangkok and had a celebration dinner in seafood restaurant (conference at Pattaya but seafood at Bangkok).

Today (May 11, 09), I have received an email from Prof. Worsak regarding the award I received. I would like to quote it here.

I received good news from Dr Poompat that a paper co-authored with AIT student, Sucha Supittayapornpong received the Best Paper Award at the 2009 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (or in short ECTI-CON 2009) in Pattaya on Thusday 8 May 2009.

On behalf of SET, I wish to offer my congratulations for this achievement.

I also would like to quote the initial email from Dr. Poompat.

Our TC graduate (as well as our current TC research associate) Mr. Sucha Supittayapornpong presented his research paper at the 2009 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (or in short ECTI-CON 2009) at Pattaya on Thu 8 May 2009, and got the BEST PAPER AWARDS in the COMMUNICATION area.

Below are some statistics on the conference website.
Total participating countries: 17
Total accepted papers: 256
(1) Computer Area: 32
***(2) Communication Area: 58
(3) Control Area: 24
(4) Signal Processing: 36
(5) Circuit & Systems: 41
(6) Power System Area: 74

Lastly, as a result, I have updated my Curriculum Vitae.

It seems likely that this post is the longest post since I have created this blog. :P