Ruj Akavipat

rakavipa at cs.indiana.edu
Address: 3315 E.Longview Ave.Apt#71,
Bloomington, IN 47408
Tel. (812) 323-2430

Education

2002 - Current Ph.D. Program in Computer Science
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Jan - May 2002 Ph.D. Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1999 - 2001 Master of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), Carbondale, IL
1993 – 1997 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) with First class honors, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand

Work Experiences

Fall 2007- present Research Associate
Supervisors: Dr. Thomas Busey and Dr. Chen Yu
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Summer 2007 Summer Intern
Supervisor: Dr. Burton S. Kaliski, Jr.
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA
Spring 2005 - Current Research Assistant
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Filippo Menczer
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fall 2004 Associate Instructor
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Brown
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Spring 2004 Research Assistant
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Filippo Menczer
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fall 2003 Associate Instructor
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Friedman
Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Spring 2002 Graduate Assistant (Grader)
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Kinnersley
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Spring - Fall 2001 Research Assistant
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Norman Carver
Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Research in multi-agents belief network and LISP programming.
Fall 1999 - 2000 Teaching Assistant (Associate Instructor)
Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Teaching undergraduate course: Microsoft Office and Introduction to Computer
Summer 1999 Programmer
Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1997 - 1999 Teaching and Research Assistant (Full-time position)
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
1995 - 1997 Computer System Administration Assistant
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
Summer 1996 Practical Trainee
Research and Development Center, Sharp Corporation, Tenri, Japan

Software Project

Computer Skills

Programming Languages

 Java, C, C++, Lisp, Perl, SQL, JavaScript, PHP, Visual Basics, Scheme, Assembly

Operating Systems

UNIX (LINUX, Solaris), Windows XP, Mac OSX

Publications & Conference Presentations

  1. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, A. Maguitman, F. Menczer: Adaptive Peer to Peer Social Networks for Distributed Content Based Web Search. To appear in Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emergent Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively, IGI Global, 2007
  2. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: 6S: P2P Web index collecting and sharing application. Application presented at RIAO 2007
  3. R. Akavipat, L.-S. Wu, F. Menczer, A. Maguitman: Emerging Semantic Communities in Peer Web Search. Final version to appear in Proc. ACM CIKM P2PIR 2006
  4. R. Akavipat:
    • Ethically Studying Man in the Middle
    Case studies to appear in Phishing and Countermeasures, Wiley, 2006
  5. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: 6S: Distributing crawling and searching across Web peers. Proc. WTAS 2005
  6. L.-S. Wu, R. Akavipat, F. Menczer: Adaptive Query Routing in Peer Web Search. Poster Proc. WWW2005
  7. R. Akavipat, L.-S. Wu, F. Menczer: Small World Networks in Distributed Web Search. Proc. 13th Intl. WWW Conf. Alt. Track Papers and Posters, pp. 396-397, 2004
  8. Presenter at TESOL Conference, March 31, 2004 at Long beach California. Topic : Scaffolding Techniques for Online Reading Instruction/Learning
  9. Carver, N. & Akavipat R. (2003). Analyzing the Efficiency of Strategies for MAS-based Sensor Interpretation and Diagnosis. AAMAS' 03 Proceedings (Poster Session), ACM.

Awards & Scholarships

  1. Full scholarship from Caltex Oil (Thailand) Ltd. covering through all 4 years of undergraduate study at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University
  2. The outstanding academic awards of Siam Cement Group in 1996 for engineering students from leading universities with the highest GPA
  3. Outstanding Academic Performance Awards from the Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT) in 1994, 1995 and 1997

Extracurricular Activities

1995 - 1997 Member of CREATECH club, a student initiated club for building robot.
1995 Third prize Award Winner of the Robot Contest held by Thai-Japanese Technology Association.
1994 Tutor of the basic science classes: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for all first year students of the SIIT institution.