from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand and M.S.
He completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California in 1999, after defending dissertation titled "Scheduling Non-Uniform Traffic in High Speed Packet Switchers and Routers" which he wrote while being mentored by Nicholas William McKeown.
[1] He was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Berkeley Concept Research Corp.
While studying at Stanford, he worked on high performance networking problems.
By introducing two maximum weight matching algorithms, Mekkittikul and his Stanford advisor Professor McKeown proved that it is possible to achieve 100% throughput in an input-queued switch.