Veerachai Tanpipat (D.Eng.) is a remote sensing engineer and geographer whose professional interests include applying geoinformatics, S&T, and social science to better manage disaster response and preparedness. His work has largely focused on wildfires, transboundary smoke haze, and flooding throughout SEA. His previous work includes, but not limited, to an advisory role to the DG of the Royal Forestry Department (RFD), the DG for the Pollution Control Department (PCD), the DG of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR), collaborative efforts with NASA-LANCE-FIRMS/WorldView, NASA-JPL, NASA-GSFC, NASA-AMES, NOAA-NESDIS, NOAA-NGDC and the CAMS-ECMWF. Currently, he is a Senior Expert at Hydro-Informatics Institute (HII) and Faculty of Forestry-Kasetsart University, a founding member of the Upper ASEAN Wildland Fire Special Research Unit (WFSRU)-Forestry Research Center, an Advisor of the DG of Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plants Conservation (DNP) and the Forest Fire Control Division of the Royal Forest Department (RFD), a Chairperson of Open and Sharing Data WG, a Co-Chair of Disaster Mitigation and Agriculture WGs of Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), and a Co-Chair of Thailand Research and Education Network Association (ThaiREN).