Core Team
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Paul Lee, M.DFounder & CEOPaul is a clinician, scientist, and an entrepreneur. As a graduate of University of Oxford with a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, he received an M.D. from The School of Medicine at Catholic University of Korea. Paul is also a graduate of Futuremed at Singularity University 2013 and Exponential Medicine 2014. Paul also cofounded JNP LAB in Seoul that acts as a development hub for global exponential technologies.
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Joshua HongCofounder & CSOJosh is a serial, internet-media, and blockchain entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. He worked at Accenture as technology and corporate strategy consultant. He won the Orange County Business Journal’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship and 40 under 40 Award in 2010. He also founded and chaired YPO Singularity University Seminar, which was awarded one of the highest rated educational programs in YPO, Young President’s Organization. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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John DoeChief ScientistJohn has been researching and developing artificial intelligence software for over 10 years. At Carnegie Mellon University, he began learning languages such as Scheme, Lisp, and C. Afterwards, John began researching and developing artificial intelligence technology. John’s mission has been to pioneer the development of the world’s first true artificial intelligence.
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Reeyan LeeCTOReeyan became proficient in diverse disciplines, including consumer facing software, banking backbones, RFID, and healthcare. Reeyan has held senior positions at GE Healthcare as a lead architect and as a lead iOS developer. Reeyan now works to develop a new artificial intelligence paradigm, to change the world.
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Dave LeeCPODave is Mind AI’s CPO focusing on human being and technology. As a graduate of Hongik University, recognized as the top institute by the Asia IT industry, he has built his career as an UX and product expert by leading projects in business networking services, healthcare and social commerce. Thinking constantly about providing convenience to the world and making their lives smoother, he has taken a step further as a product specialist in AI technology and has been with Mind AI since its inception. His dream is to create the Iron Man's Jarvis.
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Isaac BangProject LeadIsaac is a technologist with an expertise in product management and product strategy. He has experience designing and shipping products in blockchain, gaming, digital health, and AI. Most recently, he was heading up product for all features involving crypto and NFTs at IMVU, one of Silicon Valley’s first 3D metaverse companies. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA.
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Ron KamnuanthipRegional Managing Director, Mind AI SEARon is a business leader with digital business transformation, and management experiences from FMCG, Media & Entertainment industries with multi-national companies, ie. Unilever, Nippon Lever (Japan), Pepsico, Promotional Partners Worldwide, and Universal Music. Ron graduated in Computer Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, with MBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (exchange study at Kellogg Management School, Northwestern University), and IGLP (Institute of Global Law and Policy) certificate from Harvard Kennedy School. Ron has a strong passion to bring technologies to help people improve their well-beings, discover new way of workings, and capitalize on new business opportunities to the fullest.
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Christopher Jensen, M.D.Chief Advisor for HealthcareFor the last two years in Thailand, Christopher’s role was as Managing Director and Chief Medical Officer of a newly acquired asset, and an all encompassing from the ground up Medical longevity, preventative medicine, lifestyle and wellbeing project which Christopher founded and created. Christopher is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for Longevity Tech and HealthyLongevity.clinic, and forming Banda representation in Asia. Christopher’s consulting group is working with numerous investors and institutions, and this includes the top wellness companies in the world, and numerous >10BN USD UHNW individuals. Christopher is also the personal physician or medical advisor to many of these top global business leaders. He is also a founding member of the Healthy Longevity Medical Society at The National University of Singapore (NUS). His most recent role was Medical Director/ CMO of Octave Institute and Sangha, the largest integrated wellness resort in Asia.
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Jingtao XuPrincipal Lisp EngineerJingtao hails from HangZhou, a beautiful, scenic city in southeast China. The beginning of his long career in computer software, he learned how to use the computer by reading and writing low level assembly language, the language of the machine itself. Then he worked in digital security companies for a time. In recent years Jingtao learned and began programming using several Lisp dialects, and was interested in compiler parsing and in what was known as literate programming. Other than the screen, he likes to walk, meditate, and read books in his spare time, expanding his horizons.
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Nazira KaibalinaNLP EngineerNazira is a computer science graduate interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP). She received her M.E. in Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea. Her research focused on various NLP problems such as low-resource morphological analysis, text summarization, and question answering and resulted in several publications. Nazira received her B.S. in Computer Science from Nazarbayev University, one of the top universities in Kazakhstan that provides students with an education based on the American model. Outside work, Nazira enjoys outdoor sports, playing guitar, and learning new languages.
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Donghyun HwangHead of Business DevelopmentDonghyun is the Head of Business Development who covers a variety of roles including investor relations, strategic planning, pre-sales, sales, and implementing growth opportunities within Mind AI. As a graduate of University College London with a degree in Arts and Science, he had the opportunity to study a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary modules between liberal arts and science. Donghyun has prior experience at top global firms in fields such as Investment Banking and Strategy Consulting.
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Thana AnansThai OntologistThana graduated with BA and MA in linguistics from Thailand. Areas of her interest are acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. Her six years of experience as a research assistant working with linguistic, engineering, and the medical team made her become more fascinated with language and technology. Now, Thana has a bigger challenge as a Thai Ontologist at Mind AI educating AI to talk with the world. She's always a good learner and doesn't stop learning.
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Joon JeonKorean OntologistJoon is a Korean Ontologist with multiple backgrounds. He worked as a hotel manager in Japan, a cook in America, a data engineer in Korea, a translator, an interpreter, and an English teacher. He has a BA in Hospitality Management from the University of New Hampshire and is currently pursuing an MA in Korean education at Korea University. His future research will focus on analyzing Korean for deep learning AIs. Always curious about teaching Korean beyond humankind, Joon joined Mind AI as a Korean Ontologist to expand the possibilities of Korean AI.
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Arocha MahattawongLead Thai AIOpsArocha graduated a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Thailand and a master’s degree from the University of Kent in Business Analytics. Arocha used to be a Business/Business Intelligence Analyst and Data Scientist before joining Mind AI. She had opportunities to join many projects within numerous top firms in Thailand such as in the Telecommunication and Banking fields. To be a part of the Mind AI team, Arocha will use all of her skills and knowledge in tech and business to grow together with the company. Lastly, Arocha has the passion to deliver an effective product and fulfill the customer’s needs to the highest points of customer satisfaction.
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Anchalika KraiborirukLead Thai AIOpsAnchalika is a Lead Thai AIOps at Mind AI. She has worked in various roles, including business strategy, data analysis, and project management. She got B.E. in computer engineering from Kasetsart University, Thailand. After graduating, she joined the leadership project in CP Group, a big company in Thailand. And from this program, she got the experience to work with many types of people. Anchalika enjoys trying new things to expand her mind and find new passions. At Mind AI, she hopes that she will be a part of the team to develop innovations helping people have a better life.
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Trawatee BootkaewThai Annotation AnalystTrawatee has been working as a linguist for several years. She received a BA majoring in Spanish language and literature from Chulalongkorn University, one of the top universities in Thailand. She has been interested in languages since she was a child. After some years in the tourism industry, she began her career as a linguist in a multinational technology company. She participated in implementing NLP projects for voice bots (e.g. in speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, syntactic parsing, named entity recognition, NLU, NLG, etc.). While working as a full-time linguist, she also worked as a part-time translator. Trawatee joins Mind AI as a linguistic annotator to develop NLP algorithms for AI to communicate with the world. Apart from work, Trawatee enjoys nature traveling, listening to music, and learning foreign languages.
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Piyawan KwansongThai Annotation AnalystPiyawan has a passion for languages and artificial intelligence. She graduated her studies in Thai language and literature and also studied the Korean language. She has been working as a linguist for many years and has experience in NLP focusing on word segmentation, morphology, syntax, and dependency relations. Piyawan joined Mind AI as a Thai Linguistic Annotator to contribute to the development of Thai NLP.
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Sirinya ChaiophatThai Annotation AnalystSirinya has been working as a linguist after graduating in linguistics from Thailand. She has experience in several projects on natural language processing and understanding, e.g., in word segmentation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, entity annotations as well as system quality development, improvement, and evaluation. With her linguistic background and expertise of over 6 years, she joined Mind AI as a Thai Linguistic Annotator to contribute to the development of NLP in artificial intelligence.
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Natapon PantuwongSenior NLP EngineerNatapon has a strong background in human-computer interaction, pattern recognition, machine learning, and parallel computing. He graduated from KMITL with a B.Eng. (first-class honors) and an MS degree, and the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information systems. He began his career and worked for 11 years as an assistant professor at KMITL's Faculty of Information Technology. After leaving academia, he worked as a consultant for machine learning and natural language processing organizations in a number of countries, with an emphasis on Thai datasets.
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Gwanghoon YooChief LinguistGwangHoon is a Computational Linguist who worked as a Linguistic Project Manager to develop an AI chatbot for a conglomerate. He has an M.A. in Computational Linguistics (Linguistics and Cognitive Science) from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and has enthusiastically researched NLP topics such as sentiment analysis and chatbot development. He has cemented the crucial qualities of a Computational Linguist by writing academic papers and attending international and national conferences for research presentations. He joined Mind AI to develop Transparent and Ethical AI.
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Methinee AungsuwattanakulThai OntologistMethinee graduated with BA and MA in Thai language. She has been a lecturer for 6 years teaching basic Thai subjects and teaching creativity and communication. Two years ago, she started working as a Thai linguist with a start-up company. She’s passionate about helping artificial intelligence understand the Thai language. Now, she challenges herself once again to the role of Thai Ontologist at Mind AI. She believes that everyone has their own story, and she hopes that she will inspire her juniors and students to create their stories as well.
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Nicky ChatsarunExecutive Assistant at Mind AI Southeast AsiaChatsarun is an Executive Assistant at Mind AI Southeast Asia. She has extensive experiences from entertainment, publishing, and healthcare industries. Chatsarun received her bachelor’s degree in Business Arts (Japanese) from Assumption University of Thailand. She has been working in marketing communications, public relations, events, and business development for several years. She also worked as Head of e-commerce at CHAME’, one of the fastest-growing dietary supplement brands in Thailand. She loves to learn new things and explore new experiences.
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Ratanon JiamsundutsadeeComputational LinguistRatanon is recent graduate of language technology, witRatanon is a recent graduate of language technology, with emphasis on linguistics (phonetics and phonology). They have worked as a research assistant for clinical linguistics projects, as well as for linguists and linguistics research units through academic support and administrative roles. Moreover, as a student of humanities, they also have experience with Thai/English translation, editing, and writing which embraces cultural diversity. At Mind AI, Ratanon employs their insights from various fields to take on the systematic chaos that is none other than language.
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Yihan ZhouAI ScientistYihan is a language researcher and NLP engineer. He will soon obtain a PhD degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he conducted research on languages using mathematical models, computer programs, and psycholinguistic experiments. He has also received AI internship offers from two Fortune 500 companies. Inspired by Mind AI's vision, he joins the company with the commitment to go beyond deep learning and build a reasonable and transparent AI system. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, playing football, and participating in outdoor activities.
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ClaireLead AIOps EngineerClaire holds a Bachelor’s in French and English Language and Literature and a Master’s in Cultural Policies. As a polyglot, she has been intrigued by how humans communicate using different languages and make sense of the world around them. Her research focused on the public collaboration of Public Arts in Greater Paris. After gaining diverse professional experiences in research, sales, and education, she joined Mind AI as an ontologist to help educate the AI. Her recent fields of interest include NLP, data analytics, and data consulting.
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Siriyakorn LueangloedThai Linguistic Annotation Analyst & OntologistSiriyakorn earned a bachelor’s degree with second-class honors in linguistics from Thammasat University. She has a strong passion for languages and linguistics. Siriyakorn has experience as a research assistant. Drawing on her experience and a particular interest in pragmatics, she joined MIND AI as a Thai Ontologist to be a part of the driving gear to improve the understanding of Thai language for AI
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Weerapat SupapLead Frontend EngineerWeerapat is a Software Engineer, he has a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Thailand. He had work experience with big companies in Thailand with over 10 years in Frontend development, extensive experience in modern Frontend Frameworks, Analytics tools, Crafting responsive websites, he loves coding and enjoy working in cultural diversity environment.
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Kritsadha PhatcharoenThai OntologistKritsadha is a Thai ontologist who is responsible for the technical field of ontology work because of his background in Natural Language Processing. He holds a bachelor's degree in Language Technology and Information from the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University. With his major, he has gained experience doing many successful projects per semester in either linguistics or information and has graduated with a senior project in the phonetics and phonology field. When faced with MIND AI's perspective of wanting to change the world for the better and with his attitude of being always ready to seek new experiences, eager to learn new things, loving challenges, and not wanting to stop improving himself, Kritsadha decided to start working with MIND AI as a Thai ontologist.
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HaEun KimKorean OntologistHa-eun has degrees in English education and Korean language education on top of her Bachelor’s degree in English studies. She has a great interest in the language that connects people to the world. She joined Mind AI looking for various things to challenge based on linguistic knowledge. As a Korean Onotolgist, She feels great pleasure in learning new things and finding things that she can contribute to AI development.
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EunKyung JuComputational LinguistEunkyung studied Korean-langauge-and-literature and philosophy in the undergraduate and has a master's degree in Korean syntax. Her biggest concern is the systematic isomorphism between the syntactic and semantic structures that appear cross-linguistically. Recently, she has been studying with interest in the meaning of clauses required by the nucleus of the predicate of sentences and how their forms correlate. She is trying to create an AI that understands natural languages based on research results on the correlation between language form and meaning as a computational linguist in Mind AI.
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Steven Frank CollinsSenior Lisp EngineerSteven is working as a Senior Lisp Engineer at Mind AI with over 10 years of experience with Lisp (mainly with the Lisp dialect Clojure) and 15 years of experience in agile and test-driven development. He holds a bachelor's degree in information- and communication technology and is especially interested in planning and problem-solving with intelligent agents as well as natural language processing.
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HyeJu ParkGeneral AffairsAfter graduating from music school, HyeJu became interested in HR and General Affairs via her Job experience in Financial Enterprise. With her interest and experience, her goal is to improve her colleagues’ job efficiency and the growth of Mind AI. Her interest also expands to singing and visiting art fairs.
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Hyerin JeonAIOps EngineerHyerin was introduced to data analytics and programming while studying sociology and economics as an undergraduate. She then became fascinated by programming as a way to create services that people actually want to use. Since joining Mind AI as an AI Ops engineer, she has been focusing on building CAIs that can have more natural conversations while incorporating services that clients need.
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Jakkratorn PhanchawengQA EngineerHe is a skilled QA engineer with expertise in testing processes, automation frameworks, web and mobile testing. With a background in computer engineering and over two years of experience in both big companies and startups, he excels in ensuring software quality through thorough testing, efficient automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions, he continually enhances his skills to contribute to project success.
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Lara EspinosaEnglish OntologistLara holds a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education from the University of Santo Tomas. As a professional licensed teacher, she served as an English Instructor for senior high school students. Lara has transitioned into the AI field, driven by a desire to contribute to the ever-evolving world of technology. Recognizing the immense potential of artificial intelligence, she aspires to utilize her expertise in linguistics in enhancing user and client experiences through innovative AI solutions
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Chanwoo SongKorean OntologistChanwoo majored in Korean language and received his master's degree with a thesis on educational corpus building and lexical analysis. He started his career in NLP by participating in national projects such as building linguistic data for AI training and building parallel corpora. Since then, he has gained work experience handling linguistic data in various domains such as finance, entertainment, culture and arts, common sense, and games. He joined MindAI to apply his experience and linguistic knowledge to help create AI that benefits humanity. He enjoys uncovering hidden knowledge and insights through data analysis and defining phenomena.
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Abraham Isaac S. NgoEnglish OntologistAbraham graduated with honors from De La Salle University - Manila with a bachelor's degree in secondary education, major in English. He is a licensed professional teacher and has over 4 years of teaching experience in English grammar and literature, as well as creative writing. As Mind AI's lead English ontologist, Abraham manages the development, maintenance, and improvement of English ontologies to enable users to easily and seamlessly interact with CAIs using natural language. He also works closely with AIOps engineers to manage projects and ensure that CAIs are built according to the needs of clients and their businesses. Currently, he's interested in researching various industries to discover how AI can be used to improve business processes.
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Manan K. MeghaniSenior Backend EngineerManan is a Python enthusiast with a deep passion for coding in Python. With a BE Degree in Computer Science in his vault, his expertise lies in crafting elegant and efficient solutions, making him a dedicated advocate for this versatile language. When he is not debugging, you'll find him decoding the mysteries of Python with a cup of coffee.
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Sunny KimProduct DesignerSunny, a product designer at Mind AI, began her journey with a foundation in Industrial Design Engineering and Industrial Management. With over four years at SAP, along with internships and freelance projects, she excels in solving design challenges. Sunny focuses on enhancing seamless user experience that aligns harmoniously with human interaction, technology, and business. As a Design Thinker, her open and learning mindset allows her to excel in empathizing with users and synthesizing their insights into innovative, user-centric solutions. She thrives in collaborative environments, supporting colleagues to achieve shared goals. Beyond her design pursuits, she finds inspiration in nature and expresses her creativity through photography, capturing the essence of beauty in every aspect of life.
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Brian Hyo Seok ParkLead AIOps EngineerBrian is a dedicated professional with a rich background in linguistics and artificial intelligence. Armed with a BA in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, Brian seamlessly integrates linguistic expertise with a profound understanding of the industry. His journey includes impactful contributions to academic research and hands-on experience in LegalTech with various Fortune 500 companies. Currently serving as the Lead AI Ops Engineer at Mind.AI, Brian eagerly anticipates addressing novel challenges and fostering growth within his dynamic team. Outside of his work, Brian enjoys experimenting with new recipes and spending time with his tuxedo cat, Archie.
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Hyomin MinKorean OntologistHyomin studied English language, literature and psychology during her undergraduate years. During her Master’s program, she further studied linguistics, with an emphasis on syntax and psycholinguistics. Her main research interest lies in understanding how language is formed, processed, and represented in the human mind, as well as in the computational modeling of human language processing. She joined Mind AI with the goal of developing a truly human-like AI that can benefit all walks of life and contribute to building a better society.
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