Open to Collaboration

Konthee
Boonmee­prakob

Data Scientist · ML Engineer · AI Researcher

4+ years building production-grade AI — from pretraining large language models and fine-tuning Transformers, to deploying computer vision pipelines and real-time RAG systems. Multiple champion-level hackathon winner with 17+ competition wins.

4+
Years Exp.
17+
Hackathon Wins
20+
AI Projects
Konthee Boonmeeprakob
Konthee Boonmeeprakob
Data Scientist · Bangkok, TH
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Experience

Career in Data Science & AI

May 2024 — Present
Big Data Institute (BDI)
Bangkok
Data Scientist
  • Developed a computer vision system to accurately count pedestrians and vehicles in downtown Phuket.
  • Built an end-to-end receipt-processing pipeline using a multimodal LLM with vision capabilities to recognise Thai handwritten text, extract vendor/date/line-item fields, and load structured records into BigQuery.
  • Automated data pipelines by integrating n8n workflow automation, reducing manual effort and improving processing efficiency.
  • Developed a RAG LINE chatbot integrated with BigQuery, improving real-time query handling and support response accuracy.
Feb 2024 — Apr 2024
NECTEC
Bangkok
Research Assistant
  • Conducted research in NLP, LLMs, and semantic technology for Thai language processing.
  • Collaborated on NLP service platforms used by government and educational institutions.
Sep 2023 — Jan 2024
Finema
Bangkok
Machine Learning Scientist
  • Designed and implemented a Transformer-based OCR system (TrOCR) for Thai and English — setting a new multilingual document-processing standard.
  • Led development of an OCR system extracting data from passports, MRZs, and Thai ID cards with 95% accuracy on complex documents.
  • Implemented a RAG system with LLMs to enhance document retrieval performance.
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Sri Trang Group
Bangkok
Data Engineer
  • Developed predictive models that optimised machine parameters, resulting in 15% increase in production efficiency.
  • Designed a generative chatbot using GPT models with prompt engineering for document and database queries.
Aug 2022 — Feb 2023
Cargill Meats Thailand
Bangkok
Data Scientist
  • Created ML models to predict production line yield, improving forecasting accuracy by 20% and reducing waste.
  • Automated data collection and processing, saving 200+ hours of manual work per month.
Jun 2021 — Jul 2022
VISTEC
Rayong
Research Assistant
  • Applied ML algorithms to solve complex partial differential equations (PDEs).
  • Developed classification models for material properties, leading to a web app that accelerated material research.
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Education

Academic Foundation

Master's Degree in Physics
Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla
GPA 4.00 DPST Scholarship 2017 – 2021
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
First-Class Honours
Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla
GPA 3.84 DPST Scholarship 2013 – 2017
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Awards & Honours

17+ Competition Wins

Mar 2026
AI Thailand Benchmark 2026 — LOTUSDIS Task 1
Won 1st Place and Secret Award. Surpassed baseline across all tasks; achieved top far-field microphone performance (BT3m, BT10m).
🥇 1st Place · 50,000 + 2,000 THB
Aug 2025
AI Thailand Hackathon 2025 — Champion
Led development of "Thai Audio Intelligence," a custom-voiced Thai voice agent addressing speed and variety limitations in current TTS systems.
🏆 Champion · 50,000 THB
Jun 2025
AI Benchmark 2025 — Meeting Transcription
Fine-tuned Transformer-based ASR for multi-speaker meeting transcription. Won Rounds 1 & 2.
Winner · 5,000 THB
Jun 2025
AI Benchmark 2025 — Machine Reading Comprehension
Fine-tuned an LLM on a custom question-answering dataset. Won Round 2.
Winner · 5,000 THB
Jun 2025
AI Benchmark 2025 — Chinese-to-Thai Translation
Fine-tuned an LLM on a specialised Chinese–Thai medical corpus. Won Round 1.
Winner · 5,000 THB
Oct 2024
Hackathon Burapha — Epidemiology
Analytical solution studying coronavirus spread between Thailand and South Korea.
1st Place · 20,000 THB
Sep 2024
Hackathon — Solar Power Forecasting
Advanced ML and time-series model for accurate solar power forecasting.
Winner
Aug 2024
Hackathon — Agriculture Classification
Image classification model for agricultural data. F1 Score: 0.999.
Winner · F1 0.999
Aug 2024
Hackathon — Malware Detection
Deep learning malware detection system. F1 Score: 0.89.
Winner · F1 0.89
Jun 2024
AI Cooking Thailand 2024
"Sawasdee" multimodal chatbot (text, image, ASR) for Thai tourism.
1st Runner-Up
Aug 2023
Super AI Engineer Season 3
Comprehensive AI program — workshops, real-world projects, internships, and competency demonstrations.
Silver Medal
Aug 2023
Hackathon — Liver Lesion Detection
RT-DETR model for liver lesion detection in ultrasound images.
1st Runner-Up · 10,000 THB
Aug 2023
Hackathon — Human Activity Recognition
DeepConvNet for real-time human activity classification from signal data.
Winner
Jul 2023
Hackathon — Fake Number Detection
Fake number detection using ELA and EVA-02 for digital forensics.
Winner
Jul 2023
Hackathon — Multi-Modal Classification
Zero-shot learning with xlm-roberta-large-ViT-H-14 (CLIP) for text + image classification.
Winner
Mar 2023
Hackathon — Thai Handwritten Character Recognition
EVA-02 model for Thai handwritten character recognition and OCR improvement.
Winner
Dec 2022
Hackathon — Image NER
Tesseract OCR + Transformer models for named entity recognition from images.
Winner
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Skills

Technical Stack & Interests

Languages
PythonSQL HTML / CSSUnix
Tools & DevOps
GitDocker HPC (LANTA-ThaiSC)n8n OpenCVBigQuery
ML / AI
LLMsFine-tuning RAGPrompt Engineering NLPComputer Vision Deep LearningTime Series RLASR
Libraries
PyTorchTensorFlow/Keras FastAIScikit-learn Transformers (HF) NumPyPandasSciPy
Interests
AI ResearchHackathons AI EthicsTech for Social Good Open Source
Let's build something great.

Open to collaborations on AI research, data science projects, and innovative hackathon ideas.