Pongsak Lasang

Biography

Pongsak heads the Strategic Promotion Center of Panasonic R&D Center Singapore and he focuses on defining and formulating the company’s strategy and direction for future growth and sustainability.
He is also actively researching on cutting-edge technologies in the areas of AI, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Lightweight Deep Learning, 3D Scene Understanding, and New Sensors.
He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2005, Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2016, all of which were from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand. In November 2006, he joined Panasonic R&D Center Singapore as an intern. Since then, he has been developing competitive image processing AI & 3D technologies and continually contributing to businesses. His co-work on Motion Blur Removal and Image Denoising with Deep Learning received the 1st Place Winner Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2010, and the Best Paper Award from the 18th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2018), 2018, respectively. Pongsak has contributed to more than 60 patents and is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.