KASIKORN Business-Technology Group (KBTG) announced that it has become a Consortium Research Lab Member at the MIT Media Lab to conduct frontier tech research for next-generation financial services. KBTG will also be the first Thai company to send its researcher to the MIT Media Lab. Through this collaborative effort, KBTG will be a part of strengthening Thailand\u2019s development at the regional scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ruangroj Poolpol, KBTG Group Chairman<\/strong>, said that KBTG has become a member of the MIT Media Lab,\u00a0one\u00a0of the\u00a0world\u2019s\u00a0leading research and academic organizations under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), among the world\u2019s top universities. This membership will allow KBTG and the MIT Media Lab to collaborate on frontier tech research of common interest, and to share technical knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will also allow researchers from both parties to work side-by-side conducting research in state-of-the-art technology to resolve critical, national-scale problems in the areas of finance, equality, sustainability, and education. KBTG is the first Thai company to send our researchers to work with the MIT Media Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are pleased to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab,\u201d Ruangroj added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This collaborative effort is consistent with KBTG\u2019s commitment to increasing its technical capabilities and innovation ability and conducting research to further accelerate innovation for the maximum benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The collaboration was sparked by a conversation with Pat Pataranutaporn, the first Thai Ph.D. student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab<\/strong>, who has conducted research in human-AI interaction and personalized education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mirei Rioux, MIT Media Lab Director of External Relations<\/strong>, said that KBTG and the MIT Media Lab share a belief in multidisciplinary research and a focus on solving technological, social, and global challenges at several levels in an open-learning environment to create real-world impacts for society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “This collaboration will allow both sides to expand their scope of research while also allowing the Media Lab to explore and address challenging social issues in Thailand and Southeast Asia,” said Mirei Rioux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KBTG has become a Consortium Research Lab Member at the MIT Media Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,122],"tags":[522,9131,12029],"class_list":["post-58529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-story-special","category-technology-en","tag-kbtg-en","tag-digital-financial-service","tag-mit-media-lab-2"],"yoast_head":"\n