Deacha Puangdownreong received his the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from South-East Asia University (SAU), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1993, M.Eng. degree in control engineering from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Suranaree University of Technology (SUT), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, in 2005, respectively.

Since 1994, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South-East Asia University, where he is currently an associated professor of electrical engineering. He has authored 4 books and published as authors and coauthors of more than 120 research and technical articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings nationally and internationally. He has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Top 100 Engineers-2011 in International Biographical Center, Cambridge, UK. His research interests include control synthesis and identification, metaheuristics and search algorithms as well as their engineering applications.