Potsawee Manakul
Visiting Scholar at SCB 10X
Cambridge, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPotsawee Manakul is a research-focused engineer specializing in speech, audio and multilingual NLP with nine years of experience spanning academia and industry. Currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford and a Senior Research Scientist helping lead Thailand’s Typhoon project, she builds ASR, TTS and audio-language models and advises broader AI initiatives. Her background includes applied research at Amazon on multimodal summarization and academic publications from Cambridge (including ICASSP 2019), anchored by a PhD in Information Engineering. Fluent in both research and production contexts, she bridges cutting-edge model development with practical deployment for low-resource languages. A less obvious strength is her repeated role as a founding or early-team technical contributor—helping shape projects from research prototypes into national-scale capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering (Natural Language Processing), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering (Natural Language Processing) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (15)
python9
automation9
language-model8
foundation-models8
large-language-models8
multimodal7
helm6
question-answering5
music-generation4
speech-recognition3
audio3
natural-language-processing2
machine-learning2
ai2
speech2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
potsawee/seq2seq
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:79 commits, 42 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
potsawee/longsum0
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Long-Span Summarization (ACL2021)
Contributions:23 commits, 10 pushes, 12 comments in 2 years
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