• B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University,Thailand
• M.Eng. in Transportation, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT),Thailand
• Ph.D. inTransportation,Tohoku University, Japan

• Thomas L. Saaty’s Best Paper Award at the Eight International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP), 2005.
• Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship, 1996-2000.
• Barbara and John Hugh Jones Prize (Award for the Most Outstanding Transportation Engineering Student), 1995, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).

Multi criteria decision making in transportation planning, Activity based travel demand modeling, Computable general equilibrium modelling for energy policy studies, Evacuation planning

Multicriteria Decision Making in Civil Engineering

The current research interest focuses on applications of multi criteria decision making techniques to solve civil engineering problems. Possible topics included engineering design, prioritization and evaluation of public measures, classification problems, etc. Some research topics require knowledge and cooperation from multi-disciplinary fields. Example of research ~ being conducted includes highway corridor planning, prioritization of highway accident reduction measures, landslide/seismic hazard zonation, seismic resistance and maintenance prioritization of existing buildings. Techniques such as the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Fuzzy Decision Making Methods are used to solve the multicriteria decision making problems.

Highway Design Optimization

Highway design is the complex process that involves many constrains and objectives to be achieved. The conventional design method is manual. Therefore the number of alternatives is limited by the choices of the designer. It is also time and cost consuming to generate many alternatives by the manual design. The research aims to apply some heuristic techniques such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to solve the highway design optimization problem within the Geographic Information System (GIS) environment.

Master Thesis Supervised
2008:	Niranga Amarasingha. Fuzzy Extension of the Analytic Network Process for Mode Choice Modeling.
Doctoral Thesis Supervised
Current:	Natachai Wongchavalidkul. Agent Based Travel Demand Modeling.

• Member, Subcommittee on Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Engineering Institute of Thailand
• Executive Board Member, Thai Society for Transportation and Traffic Studies
• Regular Member, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

• 2000-Present: SIIT
• 2010-Present: Head of School of Civil Engineering and Technology, SIIT
• 1994: Design Engineer, Thai Engineering Consultant, Co., Ltd.

• Hossain, Md. Moqbul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2013). Groundwater arsenic contamination risk prediction using GIS and classification tree method, Engineering Geology, Vol. 156, 1 April 2013, pp. 37-45.
• Hossain, Md. Moqbul; Krishana Neaupane; Nitin Kumar Tripathi; and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2013). Prediction of groundwater arsenic contamination using geographic information system and artificial neural network, EnvironmentAsia, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 38-44.
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2011). Time use pattern classification for activity generator model: case study for Bangkok population. In Proceedings of the 16^th National Convention on Civil Engineering (NCCE16) [CD-ROM], 18-20 May 2011, Chon Buri, Thailand, 10 p. (In Thai)*
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2010). Estimating synthetic baseline population distribution when only partial marginal information is available, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 8, 2010, pp. 451-465.
• Abeysundara, U.G. Yasantha; Sandhya Babel; and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2009). A matrix for selecting sustainable floor coverings for buildings in Sri Lanka, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 17, No. 2, January 2009, pp. 231-238.
• Amarasingha, R. P. Niranga U. and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2009). Travel mode choice modeling using fuzzy extension of the analytic network process: a case study of Palinda Nuwara, Research and Development Journal of The Engineering Institute of Thailand, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 12-19.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2009). Modeling travel mode choice using the analytic network process. In Proceedings of the Sixth Regional Symposium on Infrastructure Development (RSID6) [CD-ROM], 12-13 January 2009, Bangkok, Thailand. Paper No. TRT18, 6 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2009). Some characteristics of urban recreational parks and park users in Bangkok. In Proceedings of the Sixth Regional Symposium on Infrastructure Development (RSID6) [CD-ROM], 12-13 January 2009, Bangkok, Thailand. Paper No. TRT19, 6 p.
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2009). Estimating synthetic baseline population distribution when only partial marginal information is available. In Proceedings of the Eight Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Conference [CD-ROM], 16-19 November 2009, Surabaya, Indonesia. Vol. 7, 15 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2008). Modeling the multi-criteria highway corridor selection with uncertainties using the stochastic analytic network process, Research and Development Journal of The Engineering Institute of Thailand, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 33-39.
• Amarasingha, R.P. Niranga U. and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). Fuzzy extension of the analytic network process for travel mode-choice modeling. In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies [CD-ROM], 24-26 September 2007, Dalian, China. Vol. 6, 11 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). Some applications of the analytic network process to infrastructure planning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICCEE – 2007) [CDROM], 11-12 October 2007, Hiroshima, Japan. 6 p.
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). Development of population synthesis in Bangkok: review of methodology and framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICCEE – 2007) [CD-ROM], 11-12 October 2007, Hiroshima, Japan. 5 p.
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). Development of the activity based travel demand model in Bangkok: a review of available data and proposed modeling framework. In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies [CD-ROM], 24-26 September 2007, Dalian, China. Vol. 6, 15 p.
• Amarasingha, R.P. Niranga U. and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). Travel mode-choice modeling using fuzzy extension of the analytic network process: paper identification no. NTC4-30. In Proceedings of the 4th National Transport Conference, 23 November 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 10 p.
• Natachai Wongchavalidkul and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2007). The possibilities of synthesizing the Bangkok population data and their activity schedules using data from National Statistical Office (NSO): paper identification no. NTC4-31. In Proceedings of the 4th National Transport Conference, 23 November 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 10 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2006). Priority assessment of alternative highway alignments by the analytic network process. In Proceedings of the 11th National Convention on Civil Engineering [CD-ROM], 20-22 April 2006, Phuket, Thailand. 6 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai and U.G. Yasantha Abeysundara (2006). Multi criteria evaluation of materials for doors and windows using analytical network process (ANP): a case study from Sri Lanka. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI2006) [CD-ROM], 29 November - 1 December 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand. pp. 148-154.
• Neaupane, Krishna M. and Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2006). Analytic network process model for landslide hazard zonation, Engineering Geology, Vol. 85, Nos. 3-4, June 2006, pp. 281-294.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2005). Analytic network process model for highway corridor planning. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP 2005) [CD-ROM], 8-10 July 2005, Hawaii, USA. 10 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai (2005). Computer based planning of intercity motorway alignment considering social and environmental impacts. In the 15th International Road Federation (IRF) World Meeting [CD-ROM], 14-18 June 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. 4 p.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai and Nattapon Saengkhao (2003). Evaluation of alternatives in transportation planning using multi- stakeholders multi-objectives AHP modelling. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Eastern Asian Society for Transportation Studies, 29 October – 1 November 2003, Fukuoka, Japan. 16 p.
• Hajime Inamura; Mongkut Piantanakulchai and Y. Takeyama (2002). Life cycle inventory analysis of transportation system - a comparative study of expressway and Shinkansen, Transport policy studies' review, 2002, v. 4, no. 4, p. 11-22. (in Japanese)
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai and Hajime Inamura (2002). Analysis of life cycle CO2 from transportation using hybrid input-output model, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICCEE 2002), 30-31 October 2002, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, p. 233-242.
• Mongkut Piantanakulchai; Hajime Inamura; Shigemi Kagawa (2001). Effects of technology changes of transport project on the environment using input-output structural decomposition analysis, In Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Transport Research (2001 WCTR) [CD-ROM], 22-27 July 2001, Seoul, Korea, 14 p.