Week 27, 29 June - 5 July 2026
In this issue:
C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement Signing
1) Webinar Invitation: “What and Why Super Pollutants: Long-term Monitoring in South Asia”, 29 June 2026, 2.30pm
Super pollutants (black carbon and tropospheric ozone) have significant impacts on air quality, human health, and climate. Long-term monitoring of these pollutants is essential for supporting effective mitigation strategies and evidence-based policymaking.
The webinar will provide an opportunity to learn from international and regional experts and exchange experiences on long-term monitoring efforts in South Asia. Researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in air quality and climate issues are warmly invited to join.
Webinar details:
Date: 29 June 2026
Time: 13:00 – 15:00 (Colombo/Delhi Time) | 14:30 – 16:30 (Bangkok Time)
Platform: MS Teams
Registration: https://gqr.sh/yCpg
2) Seminar on Human-Centered Intelligent Systems for the Future Built Environment, 30 June 2026, 1pm
We are pleased to invite you to a seminar titled: “Human-Centered Intelligent Systems for the Future Built Environment” by Dr. Amirhosein Jafari, who is an Associate Professor in the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction
Management at the Louisiana State University, USA. The seminar is scheduled as follows (flyer is also attached):
For further information, please contact: Ms. Woranuch (Nuch) on Ext. 6060.
3) Brown Bag 2026 Research Presentation Prize Competition
4) New P&P (FS-9-2-2) and Revised P&Ps: Academic & Administrative Affairs (DA002 of AA-1-2-5; AA-2-1-4; AA-2-1-5; AA-2-2-2 and Annexes) and Personnel Affairs (PA-1-2-1; PA-1-2-2; PA-1-2-3; PA-1-2-4; PA-1-2-6)
Email from Director, Office of Academic Administration on 15 June 2026
- I. Purpose: To establish the policies, principles, and procedures for the planning, allocation, utilization, reassignment, and charging of institutional non-residential space at AIT, ensuring efficient, transparent, and strategically aligned use of space resources in support of the Institute’s academic, research, outreach, and administrative functions.
- To reflect the dual signatory requirement for bank transactions; the requirement that bank balances and cash ledger be reconciled monthly and properly approved; and cash holding limits kept in Institute safe or cash custody locations.
- (VI.A.8.) Restored 2nd sentence on Dean’s academic load.
- (VI.C.) Removed items on Establishment/Re-establishment, Recruitment, and Appointment; Contract Renewal; and Promotion under Faculty Members, for direct references to PA-1-2-1, PA-1-2-2, and PA-1-2-3.
- Minor edits, including changing degree program to academic program; Faculty to Faculty/School
Annex 1 - Template for course outlinesAnnex 2 - Template for program learning outcome (PLO) and relationship to coursesAnnex 3 - Template for the semester-wise study plan and matrix of course contribution to the academic program learning outcome
- Revised title: added Academic
- (II.D. and II.F.) Added definitions of Minor and Diploma and Certificates
- Minor edits (also in Annexes), including changing Faculty to Faculty/School
- (III.1.) Revised composition of ad hoc Faculty/School Search Panel
- (V.3.) Removed 2nd sentence on communication of shortlisted candidates.
- (V.6.) Revised required positive votes to make an offer to a candidate.
- (II.1.) Revised frequency of call for applications for promotion
- (II.2.) Revised period to respond to the call
- (II.3.) Renamed and revised composition of a standing Faculty/School Promotions and Renewal Committee
- (II.7.) Removed requirement to solicit written evaluations from external experts for promotion cases to the rank of Associate Professor
- (II.10.) Removed requirement on reporting of minority point of view
- (IV.3.) Added criteria for external evaluators
- (IV.4.) Provision of a list of external evaluators
- (VI.) Revised date basis for re-application
- Minor edits, including changing Faculty to Faculty/School
- (II.3.) Renamed and revised composition of a standing Faculty/School Promotions and Renewal Committee
- (II.6.) Removed reference to a Faculty/School representative for a case
- (II.7.) Removed requirement on reporting of minority point of view
- Minor edits, including changing Faculty to Faculty/School
- (II) Revised FEP composition
- (III.1.) Revised frequency / scheduling of FEP meetings
- Minor edits, including changing Faculty to Faculty/School
- Minor edits, including changing Faculty to Faculty/School
5) Revised P&Ps (AA-1-2-7, FB-3-1-1, PA-1-1-1 and PA-1-3-3)
Email from Director, Office of Academic Administration on 18 May 2026
- Central administration restructuring and organizational changes, such as AIT Strategy and Management Teams (II.4.-5.); reviewed responsibilities and functions of Service Centers (III.), including regrouping of offices (e.g., Office of Advancement and Alumni Affairs, Office of International Affairs, and Office of Thailand Affairs into the Office of Development and External Affairs [III.H.]), and the establishment of a new Office of Innovation and Industry Partnerships (III.M.). Also attached for reference is the full Terms of Reference of OIIP.
- Added in III.C.8. on Receiving of Goods and Services: item c. on Payment Supporting Documentation
- Added IX. on Policy Review
- Minor edits (e.g., OPIA from Purchasing Unit, etc)
- To reflect the new salary structure in IV.B., Annex 1 and Annex 2 A.9., and their applicability on some Benefits and Welfare (VI. A.2., B.1., C.1., and D.1).
- VI.I.4. on contributions to Provident Fund while an employee is on leave of absence without pay.
- Discontinued Transportation Services (previously VI.K.)
- To apply changes mandated by Thai labor law on maternity leave (VII.E.2.) and partner leave (VII.E.3.).
- Other minor edits.
§ (revised) PA-1-3-3 Employment of Staff: General Work Regulations
- To reflect the new salary structure in IV.B., Annex 1 and Annex 2 A.9., and their applicability on Compensation for Overtime (IV.G.1.d.) and some Benefits and Welfare (V. A.2., B.1., C.1., and D.1).
- V.J.4. on contributions to Provident Fund while an employee is on leave of absence without pay.
- Discontinued Transportation Services (previously V.L.)
- To apply changes mandated by Thai labor law on maternity leave (VI.D.2.) and partner leave (VI.D.3.).
- (VIII.B.2.C.d.) removed references to ‘outstanding’ and unsatisfactory’ from Performance appraisal (VIII.B.) Criteria and ratings (2.).
- Other minor edits.
The members of his Program Committee members are as follows:
Dr. Djoen San Santoso (Chairperson)
All those who are interested in the topic are invited to join.
Join Zoom Meeting https://ait-ac-th.zoom.us/j/92387004311?pwd=UzVYbWKzquRch4vD3ozUQIQXYwrfa5.1
Meeting ID: 923 8700 4311
Passcode: 650018
The members of her Program Committee members are as follows:
8) Introducing our New Employees
We are delighted to welcome the newest members of the AIT family. Let us all wish them a successful and fulfilling journey with us.
Welcome aboard!
Background
Public and private decisions increasingly require defensible evidence on how nature contributes to welfare, livelihoods, and economic performance. “Nature-Positive Policy Tools” responds to the practical need to quantify nature-related benefits and costs and use that evidence to design and appraise interventions. As climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity intensify, policies and investments increasingly require credible estimates of ecosystem values, trade-offs, and distributional implications.
Unlike technical carbon accounting, this course focuses on the economic valuation and policy appraisal toolkit for nature-positive action. It introduces natural capital valuation, benefit-cost analysis (BCA), and survey methods and analysis that can be applied to forests, protected areas, water resources, and climate-smart agriculture. Participants learn how valuation evidence is translated into decision-ready metrics using social cost concepts, time discounting, and sensitivity analysis, and how these outputs inform instrument design, including payments for ecosystem services (PES) and carbon market mechanisms.
Course Highlights
Module 1: Ecosystem Valuation: Market and non-market valuation methods, with a case on forests, national parks, and biodiversity under climate change.
Module 2: BCA and Survey Methods: Benefit-cost analysis (BCA) metrics and application; survey design, sampling, measurement, pretesting.
Module 3: Statistics in R: Reproducible workflow in R, descriptive and inferential statistics, and applied regression.
Module 4: CSA Policy Design: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), adoption, and instrument design (targeting, conditionality), with a case exercise.
Module 5: Carbon Applied Skills & Practice. Carbon markets, project integrity concepts, measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), and capstone presentations.
Target audience
- Government officers and policymakers in environment, agriculture, water, and planning;
- NGO and development agency professionals working on nature-positive projects
- Corporate sustainability and CSR managers, including supply-chain and climate teams
- Faculty members, researchers, and graduate students in environmental economics, sustainable agriculture, and environmental policy
- Consultants and analysts supporting natural capital valuation, BCA, CSA, and carbon market prices
Why should you attend?
Nature-positive strategies increasingly require numbers that stand up in policy and investment decisions, instead of generic sustainability language. This course provides practical skills in natural capital valuation, benefit-cost analysis, survey design, statistical analysis in R, and the basics of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and carbon markets, so that participants will be able to appraise programs, justify budgets, and communicate trade-offs with credible evidence across public, private, and development settings.
Key takeaways
- Apply market-based and non-market-based methods to value ecosystems and interpret results for decision making.
- Conduct benefit-cost analysis (BCA), with social cost concepts, discounting, and sensitivity analysis.
- Design surveys and run reproducible statistical workflows in R.
- Understand how valuation evidence links to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) program design and carbon market concepts, including measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV).
Format and Fees
Date: 6 – 10 July, 2026
Duration: 5 Days (5 Modules)
Format: In-person / Online
Target Size: 15–20 participants
Fee:
USD 1,500 / All Modules (In-person)
USD 1,000 / All Modules (Online)
USD 300 / Each Module (In-person)
USD 250 / Each Module (Online)
Early Bird (Before 7 June, 2026) & Group Discounts Available (e.g. Enroll 3 colleagues, get 20% off), including Accommodation + Meal for those who enroll for all 5 Modules.
Enroll today and gain the skills of Nature-Positive Policy Tools
Highly welcome to the AIT Alumni Community
Contact: AIT Extension
Course Coordinator
Sk Shahin Hossain
Email: shahin@ait.asia
Mobile: +66 850196532 (WhatsApp)
For more information and application, please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/professional-training-course-nature-positive-policy-tools-natural-capital-valuation-bca-csa
2) Professional Development Course on "AI in HR and Superworker Organization Transformation"
Date: 24 – 28 August 2026
Venue: Asian Institute of Technology
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of AI transformation in HR and workforce management, focusing on building talent density and high-performance workforce ecosystems, creating AI-native learning organizations and dynamic skilling ecosystems, redesigning HR and L&D operating models for future-ready organizations, and applying AI tools for workforce intelligence, capability development, and strategic talent management.
For more information and registration, please visit
https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/professional-development-course-ai-hr-and-superworker-organization-transformation
3)Transform the Way You Work with Generative AI
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the future of work across industries. Organizations and professionals are increasingly adopting AI-powered tools to improve productivity, streamline workflows, enhance creativity, and accelerate decision-making.
The AI-Driven Productivity: Mastering Generative AI Tools for Efficiency and Innovation program is designed to equip participants with practical knowledge and hands-on experience in using Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT and other advanced AI tools to improve workplace efficiency and innovation.
Through interactive workshops, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, participants will learn how to integrate AI into daily work processes, automate repetitive tasks, generate high-quality content, and enhance data analysis capabilities while understanding the ethical implications and limitations of AI technologies.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Generative AI concepts and applications
- Explore practical uses of AI tools such as ChatGPT for workplace productivity
- Learn techniques for automating routine tasks and improving workflow efficiency
- Enhance content creation, communication, and data analysis using AI technologies
- Apply strategies to maximize AI effectiveness while ensuring quality and accuracy
- Understand ethical considerations, data security, and responsible AI usage
- Stay informed about emerging AI trends and future innovations
Target Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Business Professionals seeking to improve efficiency and streamline workflows
- Data Analysts looking to accelerate reporting and data-driven insights
- Project Managers and Team Leaders aiming to enhance collaboration and productivity
- Entrepreneurs and Startups interested in integrating AI into business operations
- Professionals who want to gain a competitive advantage through AI adoption
Learning Approach
Participants will engage in:
- Interactive lectures and demonstrations
- Hands-on workshops using Generative AI tools
- Real-world case studies and practical applications
- Guided exercises and AI productivity techniques
- Discussions on AI ethics and future trends
Why Attend?
- Improve workplace productivity with AI-powered tools
- Learn practical AI applications you can use immediately
- Enhance creativity and efficiency in daily operations
- Understand the opportunities and limitations of Generative AI
- Gain future-ready digital skills for the evolving workplace
Course Information
Date: 14 – 18 September 2026
Venue: Asian Institute of Technology
Email: extension@ait.ac.th
Tel: (+66) 2 524 5338
Website: https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/ai-driven-productivity-mastering-generative-ai-tools-efficiency-and-innovation
4) The International Conference on Sustainable Energy (ICUE 2026)
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is proud to host the International Conference on sUstainable Energy (ICUE 2026) from 28–30 October 2026 in Thailand. Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE PES), this year’s ICUE edition focuses on the intersection of climate goals, energy security, and digital innovation under the theme “Achieving Energy Security and Climate Goals through Sustainable and Smart Solutions”.
The Technical Program Committee of the ICUE 2026 is officially inviting applications for Special Session Organizers. We encourage you to read the full details (i.e. guidelines, relevant dates, proposal submissions) available at this link here: Call for Special Session Organizer.
Key Deadlines:
• Organizer Application Deadline: 10 February 2026
• TPC Decision Notification: 17 February 2026
• Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026
• Paper Registration Deadline: 31 July 2026
Organizer Requirements:
• Session Scope: Titles and themes must align with ICUE 2026 Key Conference Themes.
• Composition: Each session requires at least 10 fully paid/registered papers and at least one contributor from overseas.
• Logistics: One organizer must be physically present at the venue to conduct the session.
• Application: Submit the official form including a session title, abstract (200–300 words), technical outline (150–180 words), and organizer CVs.
Organizer Benefits:
• Registration Waivers: Main organizers receive a 50% to 75% fee waiver based on the number of registered papers (10 or 15), inclusive of a lead paper.
• Accommodation: One twin-bed sharing room at the AIT Conference Center hotel is provided during the conference dates. Airfare, local transportation, and allowance will not be provided.
Interested special session organizers should submit their application and proposal along with the brief CV via email: icue2026@ait.ac.th. Please use the downloadable form from here: Call for Special Session Organizer.
Please Visit Our Website (https://icue2026.ait.ac.th) for More Information
| Important Dates to Remember 31 March 2026 Due Date for Paper Submission. 15 May – 30 June 2026 Notification of Acceptance (PAPER). 31 July 2026 Camera-ready PAPER Submission Deadline. 15 August 2026 End of Early-Bird Registration period. 28 – 30 October 2026 CONFERENCE |
- Prof. Manukid Parnichkun, VPAR /UK/ 15 - 25 July 2026
- Prof.Kyoko Kusakabe /Vietnam / 14 - 20 July 2026
- Dr. Chutiporn Anutariya /Japan/ 30 June 2026 - 7 July 2026
- Dr. Vanisa Surapipith /Maldives/ 6 - 11 July 2026
- Dr. Indrajit Pal /India/25 June - 9 July 2026
- Dr. Lon Pichdara /Cambodia/ 17 June -18 July 2026
- Dr. Guilberto Borongan /Maldives/ 6-11 July 2026
- Mr.Voravate Chonlasin, Executive Director, AIT Extension /Switzerland/ 10-15 July 2026
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /USA/ 27 June -13 July 2026
- Dr. Simon Guerrero Cruz /Spain/ 1 June -1 August 2026
- Ms. Chollada Wongpanich /Mahasarakham, Thailand/ 14 January -30 September 2026
- Dr. Abayomi O.Ogun /Nigeria/ 28 May -30 November 2026
- Dr. Manzul K.Hazarika, Director, GIC /Belgium/ 28 June -6 July 2026
- Dr. Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee /Nan/ 30 June - 2 July 2026
- Ms. Mae Jordaine B. Diopenes /Prachinburi/ 28 June - 3 July 2026
- Mr. Myatthu Kyaw /Maldives/ 6 - 11 July 2026
- Ms. Suntree Pumpuang /Prachinburi/ 28 June - 3 July 2026
- Mr. Furqan Ali Shaikh /Saudi Arabia/ 28 June -7 July 2026
- Mr. Zafarullah /Saudi Arabia/ 25 June -1 July 2026
- Mrs. Hnin Lai Win /Indonesia/ 27-29 June 2026
- Mr. Huno Solomon Kofi Mensah /Indonesia/ 27-29 June 2026
- Mr. Ranadheer Mandadi /Japan/ 12-19 July 2026
| Ref.no | Position | Type | Posted date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fac 5/26 | Dean of School of Management | Faculty | May 12, 2026 |
| 9/25 | Motorpool Driver, OFAM | Staff | June 18, 2026 |
| 10/26 | Senior Driver / Motorpool Supervisor, OFAM | Staff | June 8, 2026 |