Asst.Prof. Sornkitja Boonprong, Ph.D. Received his B.S. degree in Materials Sciences from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2012, and was the winner of the Young Scientist and Technologist Program (YSTP) scholarship of Thailand in 2012. He has been a Royal Thai Government scholarship student (GUCAS, since 2013). He has completed professional courses on remote sensing from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and received an M.S. in Remote Sensing Applications from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2016. He received his Ph.D. degree in Cartography and GIS at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth from the university with a first honorable prize, and he was acknowledged as the first international student in the institute’s history to complete his Ph.D. program ahead of schedule. He developed a curve-matching-based classifier for his dissertation. Other research interests include the development of classification techniques, machine learning, data mining, environmental health and monitoring, image processing, and related subjects.