Korakot Chaovavanich

Thai AI/NLP engineer and researcher. Represented Thailand at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1993 and 1994. Holds an M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing from the University of Cambridge (1998-1999) and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University (1994-1998). Career spans academic research (NECTEC, VISTEC), industry data science (True Digital Group), independent research, and since 2023 a VP, AI Specialist role at Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group. Core contributor to PyThaiNLP and author of Thai-language NLP and Southeast-Asian LLM research.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. No named past or present role of Korakot Chaovavanich maps to a quantitative-investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund, or systematic/algorithmic-trading employer. The LinkedIn-derived employment backbone (index-only) lists Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group (VP, AI Specialist, 2023-), Self-employed independent researcher (2021-2023), VISTEC researcher (2019-2021), True Digital Group senior data scientist (2016-2019), and earlier 2000-2005 academic/health-sector roles. His current employer is a Thai financial-services group but the held title is an AI specialist, not a trading/quant role; classification and any additional evidence pending.Sep 17, 2026
• Career timeline per LinkedIn-derived index (index-only, not independently confirmed): VP AI Specialist at Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group (Bangkok) from 2023; Independent Researcher, self-employed, 2021-2023; Researcher at VISTEC 2019-2021; Senior Data Scientist at True Digital Group 2016-2019; Social Software Specialist at Knowledge Management Institute 2005; Evaluation Specialist at Thai Health Promotion Foundation 2004-2005; Lecturer at Shinawatra University 2002-2004; Assistant Researcher at NECTEC 2000-2002.Sep 17, 2026
• Represented Thailand at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1993 (rank 133, bronze, 16 points) and 1994 (rank 187, bronze, 19 points) per the IMO official participant record for contestant id 1111.Jul 1, 1994
• Education per LinkedIn-derived index (index-only): Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Computer Speech and Language Processing, University of Cambridge, 1998-1999; Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, 1994-1998.Sep 17, 2026
• Primary open-source work is Thai NLP: core contributor to PyThaiNLP (pythainlp/pythainlp), the free open-source Thai NLP library, and author of multiple Thai-language NLP papers (ACL Anthology author page) including SEA-LION/Wangchan-LION Southeast-Asian LLM work.Jan 1, 2023
• Public code/research footprint: GitHub github.com/korakot (self-described 'I learn new things everyday. Now focusing on AI and NLP', Bangkok), HuggingFace huggingface.co/korakot, Google Scholar profile za6dFwIAAAAJ, ORCID 0009-0002-7350-9855, and ResearchGate profile - all under the same name, consistent with a Thai NLP engineer.Sep 17, 2026
• Speaks Thai, English and Pali; LinkedIn skills center on NLP, speech recognition, Python, ML and data visualization. 351 connections / 367 followers as of the index snapshot.Sep 17, 2026