Principal Research Scientist & Software Engineer

• Typhoon: Open-Source Language Technologies for Thai Language Knowledge, and Culture

  Dec 1, 2023

  Thai-optimized language models and leading industry research labs, coverage from llm alignment research, low-resource adaption to multimodal and reasoning capabilities. We aim to advance Thailand and help it become a builder, not just a user.

  Key Achievements

  Built Thailand's leading AI research lab from the ground up. Led Typhoon models to achieve 1M+ downloads and 30M+ API requests, with enterprise deployment at Toyota Leasing, TDRI, PEA, VISAI, and Siriraj Hospital. Won Techsauce Innovation Award 2024 and AWS GAIA 2025 selection ($1M credits).

  Impact

  Built Thailand's leading AI research lab from scratch. Models outperform GPT-4o & Gemini on Thai-specific benchmarks (OCR, ASR, translation, instruction-following) with up to 156× cost reduction. Deployed at Toyota, hospitals, and government agencies.

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• LLM-Powered B2C AI Companion Applications (Stealth Product)

  Aug 1, 2023

  A global B2C product with 2000+ concurrent user and 1M+ users.

  Key Achievements

  Engineered high-scale LLM infrastructure for 1M+ users (2k concurrent, 20 calls/sec), developed real-time LLM pipelines, implemented custom workarounds on open-source LLMs during Llama 2 era, and deployed open-source LLMs at production scale.

  Impact

  Built production LLM infrastructure for 1M+ user B2C product. Achieved 2K+ concurrent users, 20 calls/sec with 10× cost reduction through optimization and custom workarounds.

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• arXiv:2601.18129

  Typhoon-S: Minimal Open Post-Training for Sovereign Large Language Models

  K. Pipatanakul, P. Taveekitworachai

  Jan 26, 2026 Read paper
• arxiv:2509.20866

  Single Answer is Not Enough: On Generating Ranked Lists with Medical Reasoning Models

  P. Taveekitworachai, N. Pongjirapat, K. Chaisutyakorn, P. Ittichaiwong, T. Saengja, K. Pipatanakul

  Jan 22, 2026 Read paper
• arXiv:2601.14722

  Typhoon OCR: Open Vision-Language Model For Thai Document Extraction

  S. Nonesung, N. Nitarach, T. Jaknamon, P. Taveekitworachai, K. Pipatanakul

  Jan 21, 2026 Read paper

• SCB DataX

  Principal Research Scientist, Typhoon Team

  Feb2026 - Present

  Overview

  Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Typhoon Team at SCB DataX, leading the team in the post-reorganization era.

  • Drive the productionization of Typhoon technology, models, and knowledge across the organization.
  • Lead strategy and execution, foster cross-functional alignment, and target business impact.

• SCB 10X

  Lead AI Scientist

  Feb2024 - Feb2026

  Overview

  Lead AI Scientist at SCB 10X, leading the Typhoon Team - Thailand’s leading AI research lab. Built and deployed production LLMs achieving 1M+ downloads and 30M+ API requests, with enterprise adoption at Toyota, PEA, and major hospitals.

  Key Achievements

  • Founding member of the Typhoon Team, building it from the ground up into Thailand’s leading AI research lab.
  • Led and launched multiple LLMs optimized for Thai, achieving over 1M downloads on Hugging Face and more than 30M API requests.
  • Contributed as both an individual researcher and supervisor across the majority of Typhoon Lab’s projects.
  • Co-authored and supervised over 10 research publications on LLMs, multimodal models, and NLP evaluation, with acceptances at top-tier AI venues including ACL, EMNLP, and NeurIPS workshops.

  Major Projects

  • Typhoon Family of Multimodal LLMs – Developed one of the first text, vision, and audio multimodal models in Southeast Asia. Deployed by TDRI, VISAI, Siriraj Hospital, the Office of the Education Council, and others.
  • Typhoon Audio2 – Among the first end-to-end speech LLMs in Southeast Asia.
  • Typhoon T1 – The first reasoning model developed in Southeast Asia.
  • Typhoon R1 – The most advanced reasoning LLM tailored for Thai, matching DeepSeek R1’s reasoning performance while surpassing it in Thai benchmarks.
  • Typhoon OCR – A next-generation bilingual vision-language model for document parsing, outperforming GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Flash in Thai document understanding. Currently used by multiple enterprise clients including PEA and Toyota Leasing.
  • Typhoon Translate – A lightweight Thai–English translation model optimized for edge devices, outperforming GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, and Gemini 2.5 Flash, with only 4B parameters enabling efficient edge deployment.
  • Typhoon ASR Real-Time – A real-time Thai speech-to-text model with streaming capabilities, trained from scratch using a Transducer architecture. Delivers performance comparable to Google and Azure solutions at 156× lower cost.
  • Typhoon-S – Designed a minimal open post-training recipe for developing Sovereign Large Language Models, optimizing legal reasoning and Thai-specific knowledge using efficient academic-scale resources.

  Recognition

  • Selected as one of AWS GAIA startups from over 1,000 applicants, receiving $1M in AWS credits
  • Winner of the 2024 Techsauce Innovation Award

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