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Dr. Sawat TANTIPHANWADI
Office: Reverse Brain Drain Project,
National Science and Technology Development Agency
111 Thailand Science Park,
Paholyothin Rd., Klong 1, Klong Luang,
Pathumthani 12120 Thailand
Tel: 66-2-564-7000 ext. 1353, Fax: 66-2-564-7003
Email: sawat@nstda.or.th
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EDUCATION  
   
1982-1992 Utah State University  Logan, Utah
1985       M.S. in Electrical Engineering
1986       M.S. in Computer Sciences
1987       Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
1989       M.B.A. in Business Administration
   
1972-1977 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
        B.S. in Electrical Engineering
        E.E. in Professional Engineering
   
WORK EXPERIENCE  
   
9/2001-present NSTDA, Ministry of Science Bangkok, Thailand
  - Director of Reverse Brain Drain (RBD) Project
Manage a 50-million Baht R&D funding agency
  - Secretariat of the Outstanding Technologist Award committee
  - Secretariat of the RBD committee
   
1992-9/2001 Orbital Sciences Corporation (orbital.com) Dulles, Virginia
  Senior Principal Engineer
   
  - Lead Electrical Engineer on NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s
Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) project. Design and develop the avionics for
one of the most advanced LIDAR in the world with resolution of less than 1-ft.
MLA will be flown on the Messenger spacecraft for a journey to the planet
Mercury in 2004. Lead the radiation and environmental tests on the MLA’s Range
Measurement unit. Design the Range Measurement ASIC and FPGAs using VHDL
   
  - Designed and developed U.S. Dept. of Defense’s OV-4 1-meter resolution spacecraft separation avionics system
   
  - Designed and developed OV-3 1-meter resolution spacecraft payload system
including both NB & WB Camera, SSR, X-band Downlink interfaces and Ancillary
data collection. Six Actel FPGAs were designed for the Camera/ancilliary and
Downlink cards
   
  - Lead the Integration and test of OV-3 satellite payload system
   
  - Designed and developed SeaStar spacecraft flight computer,
ten flight and twenty-four EDU computers were built.
( see http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov for details on SeaStar)
   
  - Modified and improved the APEX spacecraft flight computer and
its attitude control system
   
  - Designed and developed Error Detection and Correction
(EDAC) and its controller on an Actel FPGA
   
  - Integrated and tested SeaStar spacecraft avionics
   
  - Redesigned the Actel FPGA in the CRD unit on SeaStar
   
  - Debugged the 'Pegasus' rocket flight computer
   
  - Designed and developed BCR for Orbcomm and BATSAT
   
  - Involved in the ISO9000 certification process for SSG
   
  - Debugged, tested and redesigned the CNS-12 GPS product
at Magellan Corporation, a subsidiary of Orbital
   
  - Conducted a 2-week technical training on VHDL Design at King
Mongkut University of Technology, Thonburi campus
   
  - Lectured on Gigabit Ethernet at Ramkhamhaeng University
   
1984-1991 Globesat Holding Corporation Logan, Utah
  Chief Hardware Engineer
   
  - Designed and developed a Microcomputer System for
Low-orbit Data Communication Satellites
   
  - Designed and developed real-time color video-data compression board
   
  - Designed and developed B/W video-data compression broad (15 frames/second)
   
  - Designed and developed three channel FDDI board with VME interface
   
  - Designed and developed real-time color video-data compression board
   
  - Designed and developed real-time color video-data compression board
   
1982-1987 Utah State University Logan, Utah
  Graduate Assistant
   
  - Designed and developed ten flight 6502-based controllers for the "NASA's
Get Away Special" program. Space Shuttle flights, STS-11 and STS-14.
The controller had a power-down mode in micro-Amp.
(See website http://gas.physics.usu.edu/info/history/G-004.html)
   
  - Designed and developed flasher units for the 'NUSAT' satellite program
(Space Shuttle flight 51-B)
   
  - Designed and developed Laser communication between PC and the flight
avionics under test in the thermal-vacuum chamber at Rocket Propulsion
Laboratory of Edwards Air Forces Base
   
  - Research Engineer (USU faculty)
   
1978-1982 King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand
  Head of Electronics Division in E.E. Department
   
  - Graduate committee on “Diamond Tester” project at KMIT Lard Krabang campus
   
  - Advised student projects: Z-8, 8085 and 8080 microcomputer systems,
pH meter, capacitance meter, ultrasonic tooth scaler, temperature and water-level controller, 16-channel data logger and the 6805-based robot, “roboMOD”
   
  - Advised student projects: Z-8, 8085 and 8080 microcomputer systems,
pH meter, capacitance meter, ultrasonic tooth scaler, temperature and water-level controller, 16-channel data logger and the 6805-based robot, “roboMOD”
   
  - Courses taught: Microprocessor and its applications, Digital and Analog
Electronics, Electromagnetics, Communication Theory, Network Analysis and
Synthesis, Digital Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Direct Energy
Conversion and Instrumentation. (Note: the last two classes belong to the
Graduate School of Energy and Materials)
   
1977 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
   
  - Designed and developed Small Scale Integrated Circuit from concept design to
final product testing including mask lay-out design, wafer testing, photolithography, etching, diffusion, oxidation, assembly, packacking
and final testing
   
PAPERS  
  Tantiphanwadi, S., “Spacecraft Computers on the SeaStar Satellite”,
USU’s Small Satellite Conference, Aug. 23-26, 1999
   
  Tantiphanwadi, S., “OrbView-4’s Pegasus Separation Interface”,
SpaceComm’99, AmSat-UK Colloquium, July 23-25, 1999
   
  Tantiphanwadi, S., Abdou, W., “The Development of an Attitude Sensing System
for Small Satellites”, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on
Small Satellites, Sept. 18-21, 1988
   
AWARDS  
  Tantiphanwadi, S., Abdou, W., “The Development of an Attitude Sensing System
for Small Satellites”, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on
Small Satellites, Sept. 18-21, 1988
   
PERSONAL  
  Excellent health,
Married,
U.S. certified private pilot,
PADI certified SCUBA diver,
U.S. permanent resident visa