Biography: Thaisiri Watewai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a B.Eng. in industrial engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Chulalongkorn University, and a LL.B. from Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand in 2001. He also received a M.S. in operations research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002, and a M.A. in statistics from the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley in 2005. He is a recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship in Thailand for graduate studies, and won two best teaching awards from UC Berkeley.

His current research interests include stochastic control and optimization, financial engineering, robust optimization, ambiguity modeling, and statistical learning.

His thesis advisor is Andrew Lim.