Weerayut Buaphet (วีรยุทธ บัวเพชร)

Ph.D. Student | NLP Researcher | VISTEC, Thailand

Experience

• Open Source NER Models
- Part of the development team for Thai NER datasets and models, including a nested NER model for fine-grained classification and a bilingual (TH-EN) NER model for the financial domain.

Mentor AI Builders (2022)
This program aims to develop knowledge in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for middle and high school students interested in practical applications. My friend and I are responsible for five students working on various projects, such as question generation, fake news detection, and creating a dataset and system to support a plant tissue laboratory.

• Internet of Things (11th 9 RMUT competition 2019) - RMUTSB
We got 2nd place in the RMUT group IoT competition in Thailand. We used an ESP20 to read sensor data and send it via MQTT to a Raspberry Pi server, which visualized the data on a web interface. I programmed the visualization and configured the ESP20 while my friend handled the hardware connections

The Robotic Design Contest (RDC 2018)
This program selects national representatives for the International Design Contest RoBoCon (IDC RoBoCon). All teamsare required to design a robot to solve a provided problem. It promotes equality with mixed teams, equal resources, and collaboration, including training sessions at all levels. My friend and I achieved the following:
- 2nd place in the Northern region at Chiang Mai University: Link.
- 1st place in RDC2018 Thailand at Chulalongkorn University: Link.
- 3rd place internationally at the Tokyo Institute of Technology: Link.