Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand industry sponsors visit CMU to strengthen partnership

Leaders of Thailand’s TCC Group and CMKL University visited Carnegie Mellon University on September 8-10, 2019, and learned about the university’s latest research in fields such as information, computing, and autonomous technologies.

Thai Beverage PCL, which is part of the TCC group and known as ThaiBev, is a founding industry sponsor for the Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand program, a collaboration of scholars from CMU and CMKL University.  

The 35 visitors from Singapore and Thailand met Farnam Jahanian, president of CMU; James Garrett, provost of CMU; Larry Pileggi, department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and research faculty members from the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and the Robotics Institute.

After seeing an advanced facial recognition demonstration in professor Marios Savvides’s lab, the visitors said they were very impressed with a system that can identify suspects using low-resolution images within a very short period of time. Kosit Suksingha, an executive vice president of ThaiBev, described the technology as amazing – and a bit unsettling.

ThaiBev hosted an information session at which faculty members from CMU’s College of Engineering learned about the company’s business priorities, and about collaborative research opportunities. Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi, president and CEO of ThaiBev, invited all Thai students at CMU to join the visitors for Sunday lunch.