Ekasit Vorakitolan has been with the lab since 2002 and is currently the laboratory manager. He supervises and guides student project work, maintains all laboratory inventories, and is the lead network engineer for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation's statewide ITS fiber optic network. As a major contributor in the development and integration of the statewide network, he continues to develop additional network features as well as provide support in the expansion and maintenance of existing systems.

Before joining the lab, however, Ekasit spent many years in the private sector. In 1994, he joined UBC Co, Ltd, as an RF design engineer where, for two years, he helped develop the hybrid fiber network, HFC. He then joined the Asia Multimedia Co. Ltd. as a senior research and development engineer. It was here that he was heavily involved with the development of cable modem and television systems using the HFC network. He also helped develop a personal telephone system, PCT, using the network protocol PAIFS. In 1997 Ekasit obtained a patent for a modem adapter used to connect personal computers to the Internet over the PCT system. The adapter was launched in the Thailand market a year later. That same year he invented a remote RF audio/video extender. In 2000, he moved to Wire and Wireless Co, Ltd as a senior engineer where he continued the development of the Thai language-specific PCT handset. Only a year later, desiring to continue his education, he and his family moved to Oklahoma.

Having obtained his B.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Mahanakorn University of Technology in 1994, Ekasit enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Oklahoma in 2001. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering three years later, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the same field with a focus in digital hardware and audio/video signal processing.