Thura Aung

Thura Aung

he/him

Low-resource Southeast Asian NLP researcher focused on Burmese

Thura Aung

I am an undergraduate student in Software Engineering (Artificial Intelligence Track) at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand. I value research that goes beyond experimentation to building usable systems and resources. I have been involved in dataset creation, benchmarking, and model development, and I aim to lead projects that contribute practical tools or open-source resources for the community.

I have conducted research on Burmese NLP at NECTEC, worked on Southeast Asian large language models with AISG and VISTEC, and contributed to speech recognition systems at Looloo Tech. My work centers on building and evaluating models in data-scarce settings, with an emphasis on improving generalization and robustness.

I am fortunate to be supervised by Dr. Ye Kyaw Thu at NECTEC and the LU Lab, and Dr. Peerat Limkonchotiwat at AISG/NUS. I was also previously supervised by Asst. Prof. Dr. Titipat Achakulvisut and Dr. Zaw Thu Htet from Mahidol University during my work at Looloo Tech.

I am actively seeking MS-PhD or PhD opportunities and research collaborations in NLP and large language models.

Research Interest

  • Low-resource NLP and resource creation for underrepresented Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Burmese
  • Multilingual multicultural multimodal LLM benchmark evaluation and development
  • AI for Social Good (Safety, Healthcare, and Education)

News

  • I will be visiting WING@NUS Lab, National University of Singapore, this summer (May–July) as a research intern under Tongyao Zhu (PhD candidate) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Min-Yen Kan.
  • Our paper SEA-BED has been accepted to the ACL 2026 Main Conference.
  • Our paper Burmese-SAN has been accepted for an oral presentation at LREC 2026.

Selected highlights

  • Full Scholarship: Child’s Dream Foundation Scholarship covering tuition and living expenses.
  • Hackathon Winner: Season 2 Championship Award for the 42 Bangkok x CDG Group Hackathon.
  • Best Paper Award: 20th IEEE International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

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