Pasapol Saowakon

Pasapol Saowakon is a software engineer at Google DeepMind in Mountain View, California. Representing Thailand, he won a bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2017 (rank 93) and competed under the handle 'zoomswk'. He studied at MIT (B.S. Computer Science, 2018-2022; M.Eng., 2022-2023), with earlier schooling at Blair Academy and Triam Udom Suksa School in Thailand. His work history (LinkedIn-derived) includes a 2020 Data Science Internship at SCB - Siam Commercial Bank, a 2021 Quantitative Research Internship at Jane Street (New York), a 2022 Software Engineering Internship at Google, full-time Software Engineer at Google (2023-2025), and Software Engineer at Google DeepMind (2025-present).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only evidence of a quantitative-finance role is the LinkedIn-index record for /in/zoomswk listing a 'Quantitative Research Intern' at Jane Street (New York, 2021), which is index/aggregator data, not independent primary-source confirmation, so the role and its dates remain unverified. Identity is supported (the handle 'zoomswk' ties the IOI 2017 / MIT records to the profile). Employer classification: Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm / market maker that operates in quantitative finance, so IF the internship is genuine it satisfies the quant criterion; the SCB (Siam Commercial Bank) 2020 Data Science Intern role is a bank data-science seat, not a documented quant-trading role, and the Google/DeepMind software-engineering roles are not quantitative finance. No student program, insight day, camp, or incoming offer was found in place of an actual role.Jun 1, 2021
• Google (2022 Software Engineering Intern; full-time 2023-2025) then Google DeepMind (2025+) forms a single-employer Google track after MIT, while the Jane Street summer quantitative research internship (2021) and SCB data-science internship (2020) are the only quantitative-finance-adjacent roles in the timeline; the SI/industry path is software engineering, not a continuing quant-trading career.Aug 1, 2025
• Named author (Pasapol Saowakon, Dept. of EECS affiliation) on a 2024-2026 medical-AI paper 'AI-guided automated identification of patients at high risk for hepatocellular carcinoma' (medRxiv 2024, later journal), a research collaboration linked to Beth Israel Deaconess / Harvard-area groups - evidence of continued ML publication activity beyond the engineering roles.May 28, 2024
• Listed in MIT's 2022 (bachelor's) and 2023 (master's/MEng) commencement name books, corroborating the MIT Computer Science bachelor's (2018-2022) and MEng (2022-2023).Jun 1, 2023
• Co-authored the MIT 6.857 Cryptovote project (2019) - an open-source Python implementation of the Shuffle-Sum protocol with the Damgard-Jurik cryptosystem for end-to-end-verifiable single-transferable-vote (STV) ranked-choice elections - alongside Nicholas Boucher, Kyle Swanson and Luka Govedic; an early MIT-era cryptography/security project that predates the industry roles.May 1, 2019
• The SCB (Siam Commercial Bank) Data Science Intern role dated 2020 coincides with SCB's listed 'Data Interns 2020' program page, consistent with a Thai-bank data-science internship during undergraduate study rather than a quant-trading seat.Jun 1, 2020
• Recorded on the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame timeline (cphof.org) with a Russian Code Cup 2016 result (rank 42) in addition to the IOI 2017 bronze - the handle 'zoomswk' tying the Codeforces, Topcoder, IOI and MIT/LinkedIn identities together.Sep 10, 2017
• Registered as part of a team at IPSC 2016 (Internet Problem Solving Contest), part of a competitive-programming record that runs from Thai national olympiad selection through IOI 2017 to collegiate contests.Jun 1, 2016
• No verified GitHub account was located: github.com/zoomswk returns a page with no profile content linking to this person, so no GitHub URL is asserted.Sep 17, 2026