ผู้ใช้:Siriwan Suebnukarn/ทดลองเขียน

Professor Dr. Siriwan Suebnukarn, D.D.S., Ph.D., Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Thammasat University

Professor Siriwan Suebnukarn’s combined background in Dentistry and Computer Science gives her a rather unique set of skills to tackle some important outstanding problems in Dentistry and Medicine. Her research work has included intelligence clinical training systems, virtual reality surgical simulation, clinical decision support systems, biomechanics analysis of dental implants, ergonomics in surgery, and electronic health records for oral health surveillance.  In her early work Prof. Suebnukarn developed new representations and algorithms for intelligent tutoring in medical problem-based learning.  Solving this problem required first an in-depth analysis of the teaching strategies of expert tutors, along an analysis of the knowledge required to generate tutorial interventions.  Prof. Suebnukarn designed a new way to use Bayesian networks to manage group interaction by reasoning about the state of knowledge of the group.  The resulting system was able to generate coaching hints as had been observed in human tutored sessions.  The effectiveness of the system was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.  This thorough and methodical yet creative approach to solving research problems has been a characteristic of her work ever since.  Subsequently she turned her focus to the teaching of physical surgical skills.  She developed a Virtual Reality Dental Simulator for which she won the prestigious International Federation of Inventor Association’s (IFIA) Lady Prize for the Best Women’s Invention, and the IFIA gold medal in the World Cup for Computer Implemented Inventions. She also recently co-invented a real-time personalized biofeedback system comprised of an accelerometer sensor-based wearable device for predicting and preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders, and won the gold medal in the Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF). The results of Prof. Suebnukarn’s research have been reported in a variety of top ranked peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Professor Suebnukarn has been active in a broad array of academic activities.  Using her interdisciplinary approach, she has trained a new generation of PhD students from ASEAN countries in important areas including medical informatics research in the area of dental implants, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, electronic health records, minimal intervention, and decision support for diagnosis of jaw tumors. Her students have attained prominent academic and government positions such as Associate and Assistant Professorships in Dental Schools in Thailand and Indonesia, and Directorship of the Intercountry Center for Oral Health Promotion, a  WHO collaborating center. She is currently involved in three main projects in the field of Medical Informatics: 1) an immersive intelligent virtual reality dental simulation - She is analyzing expert/novice performance using various kinematic variables such as eyes and hands movements in addition to force and position of the instrument to provide various types of automated feedback; 2) Clinical decision support systems - She is analyzing how surgeons synthesize a patients’ information used in pre-surgical decision making.  The results will be used for the design of a clinical information system and other decision support systems; and 3) Ergonomics – She is  developing an automated biofeedback wearable sensor to analyze a surgeon’s body tilt and identify the risk of musculo-skeletal disorders from clinical work. The prototype system will be implemented and evaluated for widely use the general practitioner clinics.

Siriwan Suebnukarn

Professor Dr. Siriwan Suebnukarn, D.D.S., Ph.D., Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, Thammasat University

Professor Siriwan Suebnukarn’s combined background in Dentistry and Computer Science gives her a rather unique set of skills to tackle some important outstanding problems in Dentistry and Medicine. Her research work has included intelligence clinical training systems, virtual reality surgical simulation, clinical decision support systems, biomechanics analysis of dental implants, ergonomics in surgery, and electronic health records for oral health surveillance. In her early work Prof. Suebnukarn developed new representations and algorithms for intelligent tutoring in medical problem-based learning. Solving this problem required first an in-depth analysis of the teaching strategies of expert tutors, along an analysis of the knowledge required to generate tutorial interventions. Prof. Suebnukarn designed a new way to use Bayesian networks to manage group interaction by reasoning about the state of knowledge of the group. The resulting system was able to generate coaching hints as had been observed in human tutored sessions. The effectiveness of the system was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. This thorough and methodical yet creative approach to solving research problems has been a characteristic of her work ever since. Subsequently she turned her focus to the teaching of physical surgical skills. She developed a Virtual Reality Dental Simulator for which she won the prestigious International Federation of Inventor Association’s (IFIA) Lady Prize for the Best Women’s Invention, and the IFIA gold medal in the World Cup for Computer Implemented Inventions. She also recently co-invented a real-time personalized biofeedback system comprised of an accelerometer sensor-based wearable device for predicting and preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders, and won the gold medal in the Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF). The results of Prof. Suebnukarn’s research have been reported in a variety of top ranked peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Professor Suebnukarn has been active in a broad array of academic activities. Using her interdisciplinary approach, she has trained a new generation of PhD students from ASEAN countries in important areas including medical informatics research in the area of dental implants, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, electronic health records, minimal intervention, and decision support for diagnosis of jaw tumors. Her students have attained prominent academic and government positions such as Associate and Assistant Professorships in Dental Schools in Thailand and Indonesia, and Directorship of the Intercountry Center for Oral Health Promotion, a WHO collaborating center. She is currently involved in three main projects in the field of Medical Informatics: 1) an immersive intelligent virtual reality dental simulation - She is analyzing expert/novice performance using various kinematic variables such as eyes and hands movements in addition to force and position of the instrument to provide various types of automated feedback; 2) Clinical decision support systems - She is analyzing how surgeons synthesize a patients’ information used in pre-surgical decision making. The results will be used for the design of a clinical information system and other decision support systems; and 3) Ergonomics – She is developing an automated biofeedback wearable sensor to analyze a surgeon’s body tilt and identify the risk of musculo-skeletal disorders from clinical work. The prototype system will be implemented and evaluated for widely use the general practitioner clinics.