After completing her studies at the University of Melbourne in 1984, she began her career at the Asian Institute of Technology.[2] While at the AIT, Kanchanasut became the first Thai person to use email in 1986 after she co-created a computer network to email universities in Melbourne and Tokyo.[3] After establishing connections to the universities in 1987,[4] Kanchanasut set up Thailand's first server connected to the Internet in 1988.[5] Kanchanasut was elected as the AIT's vice president of research in 2013 and currently teaches computer science.[6]