Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai

Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai
1st Executive Director of the Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation
Assumed office
2020
7th President of Asian Institute of Technology
In office
2014 – September 1, 2018
Preceded bySaid Irandoust
Succeeded byEden Woon
Personal details
Born17 February 1948
EducationChulalongkorn University (BEng)
Asian Institute of Technology (MEng)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai is a Thai structural engineer and university administrator, currently serving as Executive Director of the Chulalongkorn School of Integrated Innovation at Chulalongkorn University. Kanok-Nukulchai served as the President of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) from 2014 to 2018, the first Thai national and alumnus to become AIT's president. He is a Royal Scholar of the Royal Society of Thailand.

Selected publications

  • A simple and efficient finite element for plate bending International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (1977)
  • A finite element method for a class of contact-impact problems Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering (1976)