Supachai Tangwongsan
Supachai Tangwongsan (, born 18 December 1947) is a Thai emeritus professor of computer science at Mahidol University, Thailand. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering at Purdue University with the Royal support of King Ananda Mahidol Foundation scholarship. In working experience, Dr. Tangwongsan recently was Chairman of the Executive Board of National Software Industry Promotion Agency of Thailand in 2010-2014. He hold the title of University Vice-President for Academic Infrastructures and Chief Information Officer (CIO) from 1998 to 2007. He was assigned to pioneer an establishment of the Computing Center, Mahidol University and  he held the title of Director from 1986 to 1999. For academic affairs, in 1989, he was the founder of Department of Computer Science and served as a Chairman in 1989-1997. In 2003, he also established Faculty of ICT, Mahidol University. His best known work is Buddhist Scripture Information Retrieval (BUDSIR), the first computerized Buddhist Scripture of the world. BUDSIR had been continuously developed with computerized transliteration in Thai and other eight scripts. BUDSIR was granted an outstanding award for MU innovative work, by the National Research Council of Thailand in 1989, as well as "Distinguished Service Award" by  the UC Berkeley in 1993. Another achievement in 2003 earned him "The ICT Innovation Award 2003", a national award for winning first prize for Mahidol University’s Intra-Phone, presented by the National Information Communication Technology Committee.