On March 26, 2012, the Faculty’s administrators, led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Somnuk Theerakulpisut, the Dean, Dr. Nararat Ruangchaijatuporn, Assistant to the Dean in Student Development welcomed Prof. Dr. Noboru Sonehara, Director of Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan.  Prof. Sonehara came to propose academic collaboration with the Faculty on student and staff exchanges in order to enhance learning in academic, culture and research.  

Prof. Sonehara is an expert in digital commerce system who has performed a lot of research work and is well renowned. At the international conference KKU-IENC 2012 held on May 10-11, 2012, Prof. Sonehara was an invited speaker who presented his work on “Web Data Driven Information Flow in the Integrated Cyber-Physical Society”.