Dr. Ampol Karoonsoontawong was awarded an International Road Federation Fellowship and Huff Graduate Fellowship in Transportation in 2000 to pursue his graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), USA. He earned his Ph.D. in transportation engineering in December 2006 from UT. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UT and a transportation engineer at the Maricopa Association of Governments, Phoenix, Arizona, in 2007. He has worked at the King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, since October 2009. He was awarded 17 research grants from the Thailand Research Fund, Thai Roads Foundation, Thailand Accident Research Center, Office of National Research Council of Thailand, Commission on Higher Education, and Thailand Science Research and Innovation. He was named a 2016 Thailand Research Fund Research Scholar (equivalent to an NSF CAREER award recipient in the USA). He was selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for a Fulbright grant under the 2023 Fulbright Thai Visiting Scholar Program to conduct a research project at UT in 2024. He has participated in consulting projects for various Thai governmental offices such as the Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning Office, the Office of Energy Policy and Planning, the Provincial Electricity Authority, the Department of Highways, the Marine Department, the Department of Land Transport, and Expressway Authority of Thailand.