Activities
Work Experience
Full-time Faculty (Nov 2010-Present)Faculty of Engineering, Computer Engineering Department, Mahidol University, Thailand
Instructor (Sep 2009-Dec 2009)
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Course: FBIT3501U: e-Business Technology
- Prepare and deliver lectures
- Conduct office hours and tutorial sessions
- Invigilate midterm/final examination, and grade assignments/exam
MiTACS Accerate Program and HiNext Inc.
Working on the next version of a clinical assessment system called TREAT. The research focuses on integrating the business intelligence system and Hybrid Online Analysis Processing (HOLAP) to improve the clinical assessment in TREAT.
- Conduct research on data mining and OLAP for clinical assessment purpose
- Write document and present research results
- Develop a prototype using HOLAP to analyze the clinical assessment data
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Course: FBIT3501U: e-Business Technology
- Prepare and deliver lectures
- Conduct office hours and tutorial sessions
- Invigilate midterm/final examination, and grade assignments/exam
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Working on security and privacy system to support mobile web services and implementing a prototype for healthcare system supporting HL7
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Patrick Hung and Prof. Jayshiro Tashiro
- Conduct research on privacy and access control modeling under supervision of Dr. Patrick Hung
- Write and present research results
- Work with internal and external research collaborators
- Provide supervisory guidance to undergraduate and graduate students
- Work on developing a Flash Clinical Simulation and other programming for the International Care grant under supervision of Dr. Jay Tashiro
Faculty of Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Project: Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Donation Service
- Develop a dynamic semantic workflow for a mobile blood donation form system based on Flash
- Published articles and conduct literature reviews
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Course: BUSI-2501U E-Business Technologies, MITS-5400G Secure Software Systems, and MITS-6200G Ecommerce Infrastructure Security
- Hold office hours, tutorial sessions
- Invigilate midterm/final examination, and grade assignments/exam
Greenfield Research Incorporated
Design company’s webpage with a simple content management system using PHP
- Design a template using CSS and updated company’s website
- Create interactive slideshow by using Flash and designed a content management using PHP
- Prepare a manual to maintain the website
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Conducting research on speech prosody area. The objective is to develop a system which can generate a variety of prosodic patterns of a sentence depending on a focus and speaker’s intention.
Supervisor: Prof. Nick Cercone and Assoc. Prof. Vlado Keselj
- Review and surveyed publications
- Publish articles and conduct literature reviews
- Develop a Unification-based system for focus analysis to annotate prosodic patterns
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Funded by PRECARN Project: Intelligent System Requirement for Cognitively Impaired Individuals. The objective of the project is to alter the course of the progressive loss of independence in people with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment by implementing intelligent systems technologies for use in everyday life.
Supervisor: Prof. Nick Cercone and Assoc. Prof. Vlado Keselj
- Conduct research and explore a technology for impaired people who have Alzheimer disease
- Design system to facilitate caregiver to help impaired individuals
- Publish articles and conducted literature reviews
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Conducting research on natural language and speech processing
Supervisor: Prof. Nick Cercone
- Improve the Thai TTS system: Thai Speech Synthesis System
- Collaborate with AI laboratory at Mahidol University to build the prototype for the English-Thai speech translation by integrating these systems: the Thai TTS system, Microsoft speech synthesis (English) and English-Thai / Thai-English Machine Translation system. The project has been completed in 2005
- Publish articles
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
Assist and provide tutorial for undergraduate students in classroom and laboratory
- Course: Artificial Intelligence (CPE 488), and Analysis of Algorithms (CPE 603)
- Marking, prepared material and provided tutorials (SWI-Prolog)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
Working at the Artificial Intelligence Center which focus on developing Natural Language Software for Thai Language
Project: Thai Text-to-Speech System
- Design and develop the Thai Text-to-Speech (TTS) System Using C++
- Consult the experts or linguists to discuss and solve problems
- Publish articles, and demonstrated the software in an exhibition
- Collaborate with company to test the Thai TTS prototype for mobile phone
- Design and develop the English-Thai Machine Translation System Using C++
- Collaborate with experts or linguists to discuss and solve problems
Volunteer Experience
Treasure (2006-2007)Thai Student Association, Dalhousie University
Organizer (2003-2004)
The Third Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In House Conference (DCSI 2004)
The Second Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference (DCSI 2003)
- Meeting, and prepare the artworks such as banner and tag name
The Second Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference (DCSI 2003)
- Design and update conference’s website
- Develop the online registration, and updated the conference announcements
ITC-CSCC 2002 international conference
- Design and update conference’s website
- Design any artworks for the conference such as logo, banner, letterhead, and etc.
SNLP 2000 international conference
- Design and update conference’s website
- Design any artworks for the conference such as proceeding cover, banner, letterhead, and etc.
- Organize information, sort the documents, prepare contents for the conference’s announcement
Extracurricular Acttivities
Program Committee Administrative Assistant- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009), Bangalore, India, September 21-25, 2009
- The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 8-11, 2008
- Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (2006)
- The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008)
- International Conference on Management of e-Commerce and e-Government (ICMeCG 2008)
- The IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE’08)
- The Fifth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing(RSCTC 2006)
- The Ninth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2006)
- The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005)
- The 17th Australian Computer Society Australian Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2004)
- The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03)
- The 2003 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING'03)
- The 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, July 6-10, 2009
- The Conference on Engaging in Open Source (CeOS 06), Dalhousie University, Halifax, June 1-2, 2006.
- The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), Halifax, Canada, Oct 13-16, 2003.
- The Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conf. (PACLING'03), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, August 2003.
- PRECARN IS 2003: 13th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Halifax, June 8-10, 2003.
- “Software as a Service (Saas) Security Strategy and Risk Management”, School of Management, Ryerson University, November 13, 2008.
- “Overview Web Services”, Class: BUSI 3570U Server and Network Administration, Faculty of Business and IT, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada, Nov 10, 2008.
- “Beacon Cloud: Mobile Blood Donation Registration Service”, Technology Showcase: IBM CASCON 2008, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, Oct 27-30, 2008 (Poster).
- “Web Service Used Case Study: the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Service in Hong Kong,” Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, Oct 21, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” Milescan Technologies Ltd, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, Hong Kong, Jun 2, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” Department of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China, May 23, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” Department of Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing, China, May 21, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” The 1st International Workshop on SaaS, Security and Applications, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 17-24, 2008.
- “Privacy Access Control Issues and the Mobile Red Cross Blood Donation Registration System in Hong Kong,” Hong Kong Blood Transfusion Station, Kowloon, Hong Kong, May 15, 2008.
- “Demonstration: XML Database and Web Services”, Class: eBusinees Technology, Faculty of Business and IT, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada, Feb 26, 2008.
- “XML Securities: Demonstrate XML Signature, XML Validation and XML Encryption," Class: eCommerce Infrastructure Security, Faculty of Business and IT, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada, Feb 27, 2008.
- “An Introduction to the LKB system,” Dalhousie Natural Language Processing Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Nov 28, 2005.
- “A Review of Prosodic Generation for Spoken Language Generation” Dalhousie Natural Language Processing Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Jul 13, 2004.
- “An Overview of a {Text, Document, Concept} to Speech System” Dalhousie Natural Language Processing Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Aug 6, 2003.
Publications
Journal- Dickson K.W. Chiu, Shing-Chi Cheung , Sven Till, Lalita Narupiyakul, Patrick C.K. Hung, "Enhancing E-Service Collaboration with Enforcement and Relationship Management: A Methodology from Requirements to Event Driven Realization", International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), Hideyasu Sasaki (Ed.), IGI Publishing, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010, pp.15-43 , ISSN:1947-9344.
- Narupiyakul L., Keselj V., Cercone N., andSirinaovakul B., 2007,"Focus to emphasize tone analysis for prosodic generation", An International Journal: Computers & Mathematics with Applications, ELSEVIER SCIENCE, NY, USA.
- Narupiyakul L., Khumya A., Sirinaovakul B., and Cercone N., 2002, "A Stochastic Knowledge-Based Thai Text-to-Speech System", An Int. Journal: Mathematical and Computer Modelling, ELSEVIER SCIENCE, NY, USA., Volume 42, Issues 1-2, July 2005, Pages 1-16.
- Qianhui A. L., Herman L., Narupiyakul L., Hung C.K. P., A Rule-based Approach for Availability of Web Service, the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008), September 23-26, 2008, Beijing, China.
- Lalita Narupiyakul, Focus to Emphasize Tone Structures for Prosodic Analysis in Spoken Language Generation, the COLING/ACL-06 Student Research Workshop 2006, July 17-21, 2006, Sydney, Australia.
- Narupiyakul L., Cercone N., Keselj V., and Sirinaovakul B., "Focus and Speech Act in Prosodic Analysis for Spoken Language Generation", In The 6th Symposium on Natural Language Processing, SNLP'2005, Chiang Rai, Thailand, December 2005.
- Narupiyakul, L., Thomas, C., Cercone, N. and Sirinaovakul, B., 2004, "Thai Syllable-Based Information Extraction Using Hidden Markov Models", the 5th International conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2004), February 15-21, 2004, Seoul, Korea. (Full paper)
- Narupiyakul, L., Cercone, N. and Sirinaovakul, B., 2003, "{Text, Document, Concept} to Speech: Proposed High-Level Unifying Architecture", Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING'03), August 22-25, 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- L. Narupiyakul, A. Khumya and B. Sirinaovakul, 2001, "Syllable Segmentation by Using Markov Chains", International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology (ISCIT' 2001), November 14-16, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
- Khamya, A., Narupiyakul, L., and Sirinaovakul, B., 2000, "SATTS : Syllable Analysis for Text-To-Speech System", The 4th Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2000), May 10-12, Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel, Chiang Mai, pp. 336-340.
- Narupiyakul, L., Khamya, A. and Sirinaovakul, B., 1999, "The Phonetic Transcription of Thai Words", IEEE International Symposium on Intelligence Signal Processing and Communication (ISPACS'99), Phuket, Thailand.
- Trojer T., Lee C. K., Fung Benjamin C. M., Narupiyakul L. and Hung Patrick C. K., "Privacy-Aware Health Information Sharing", Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques, Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series, Francesco Bonchi, and Elena Ferrari (Eds), CRC Press, November 22, 2010,ISBN: 9781439803653.
- Dickson Chiu, Shing-Chi Cheung, Sven Till, Lalita Narupiyakul, Patrick Hung, "Enhancing E-Service Collaboration with Enforcement and Relationship Management", Electronic Services: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications 3vol, Information Resources Management Association (Eds),IGI Publishing, USA, 2010, pp. 214-241,ISBN13: 9781615209675.
- Khamya, A., Narupiyakul, L., and Sirinaovakul, B., 2000, "Thai Polysyllable analysis for Text-to-Speech system", KMUTT Research and Development Journal, Vol 23, No. 1, January-April 2000, KMUTT Print, Thailand.
- L. Narupiyakul, A. Khumya and B. Sirinaovakul, 2001, "Thai Speech Synthesis by Syllable Structure Analysis",RGJ Seminar Series: Engineering section (Electronic and Computer), May 25, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- L. Narupiyakul, A. Khumya and B. Sirinaovakul, 2001,"Thai Speech Synthesis by Syllable Structure Analysis",Proceeding of RGJ Ph. D. Congress II, The Thailand Research Fund, April 20-22, Chon Buri, Thailand.
- L. Narupiyakul, "The Phonetic Transcription of Thai Words", Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineer, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.
- L. Narupiyakul, "Focus to Emphasize Tone System for Prosodic Analysis", PhD's Disseration, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
- L. Narupiyakul, "Focus to Emphasize Tone System for Prosodic Analysis", PhD's Disseration, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineer, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand.
Document
- (2006), Tips&Tricks, "Compiling the Festival Speech Synthesis V.1.95 on Windows XP SP2"
Link: http://www.cs.dal.ca/~lalita/festival/festivalXP.htm
Mailing Address
(Jan 15, 2008 - Feb 15, 2010)Lalita Narupiyakul
82 Brant Ct,
Oshawa, Ontario
Canada L1G 4M8
Email: lalita at atilal · com
Research Interests
- Mobile Healthcare Webservices
- Privacy and Access Control in Healthcare System
- Flash Interface for Clinical Practice Appilication
- Focus and Prosodic Analysis and Generation
- Speech Processing and Speech Generation
- Focus Analysis and Speaker's Intention in Dialogue
- Natural Language Processing and Generation
- Thai Phonetic Transcription and Thai Syllable Analysis
- Thai Information Extraction
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