Saksorn Ruangtanusak

Awards

Jun 2024

1st Prize, Typhoon AI Hackathon 2024

Built MANage In The Middle (MITM), a personalized meeting summarizer and feedback tool, in two days at SCB 10X in Bangkok. Combined ASR with Typhoon 1.5X 70B agents and a hierarchical summarization RAG pipeline to correct transcription errors and produce reliable multi-speaker summaries.

May 2024

Finalist, AI Thailand Hackathon (AI Cooking)

Placed 1st among 157 teams in the opening round on English–Thai machine translation and Thai image captioning. In the final, built a free-form Thai OCR system with a vision-language model and fine-tuned BLIP-2 with SeaLLM using LoRA and distributed training on LANTA A100 GPUs.

Nov 2023

1st Prize Financial Winner, Bangkok AI Hack 2023

Built PlayVest, a generative-AI financial adviser integrated with a simulated trading platform, in nine days at SCB 10X in Bangkok. Combined guardrails, intent classification, retrieval-augmented generation, and text-generation models.

Jul 2023

Global Open-Source AI Game Jam

Built Expand the Love, a visual novel using open-source AI, in two days for the Hugging Face online game jam. Used Stable Diffusion, SRGAN, GPT-4, and Unity, fine-tuning Stable Diffusion to maintain consistent characters, clothing, expressions, and poses.

Jun 2023

1st Prize, Autonomous Anti-Drone System

Built The Dispatcher at AI and Robotics Ventures: an autonomous, air-powered anti-drone system with a detachable net. Developed real-time drone detection, classification, and tracking software running on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier at 60 fps.

Jan–Apr 2022

Gold Medal, Super AI Engineer Season 2

Completed nine hackathons over nine weeks at the AI Applied Level, solving real-world problems across NLP, computer vision, signal processing, robotics, IoT, and data science.

  • Image Classification — 3rd place; team lead.
  • EEG Signal Classification — 3rd place; team lead.
  • IoT and Robotics — 3rd place with best performance; motion-control team lead. Implemented PID control in MATLAB for a first-aid robot.
  • Stock Prediction — 3rd place.
  • Basic NLP and Application — 3rd place; word-segmentation team lead.
  • Font Recognition — 5th place.
  • Machine Translation.
  • Handwritten OCR.
  • Predictive Maintenance.

Competition listings on Kaggle.