December 2019 Issue
News and Events

UEC holds The 1st ECTI - UEC Workshop and The 6th UEC Seminar in ASEAN, 2019

On September 6-7, 2019, "The 1st ECTI - UEC Workshop on AI and Applications" (Sep 6) and "The 6th UEC Seminar in ASEAN, 2019" (Sep 7) took place at Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep in Bangkok, Thailand. Eminent researchers, executive officers and staffs of UEC partner universities, governmental agencies and industry from Thailand and other ASEAN countries came together for the workshop and the seminar.

The 1st ECTI - UEC Workshop on AI and Applications was jointly organized by the professors of ECTI association and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC). 14 invited talks and 25 poster presentations were given by researchers in AI and the related fields and students from ASEAN institutions and UEC. About 70 participants of the workshop held active discussions on research topics in AI and its applications during the workshop.

UEC Seminar in ASEAN has been annually hosted by UEC ASEAN Research and Education Center (UAREC) of UEC since 2015. The 6th UEC Seminar was held this year in the aim to strengthen networks with industry, government, and academia in cooperation with ECTI Workshop. Prof. Ishibashi, the Director of UAREC gave the opening address, and then guests from UEC partner universities and governmental agencies gave guest speeches. Invited speakers and UEC professors gave presentations for UEC activities including cooperation programs with ASEAN institutions: Global Alliance Laboratory (GAL) with partner institutions in Hanoi; and Summer Short Exchange Training Program with partner universities in Thailand. Then, executive officers and experts form industry and government gave speeches and the seminar was closed by Prof. Abe, the UEC vice president. More than 140 participants in total attended the workshop and the seminar.

UEC plans to hold the 7th UEC Seminar in ASEAN in Bandung, Indonesia to further enhance international joint research, exchange programs and industry-academia-government collaboration in ASEAN region.