Assistant Professor Ekapol Chuangsuwanich has focused on automatic speech recognition since his undergraduate days in Carnegie Mellon’s Robust Speech Recognition Group, later deepening his expertise at MIT’s Spoken Language Systems Group during his Ph.D. work. His contributions focus on multilingual speech processing especially for low resource languages. Now at Chulalongkorn University, he continues speech and language research with the Spoken Language Systems Group and collaborates on proteomics data analysis within the Computational Molecular Biology Research Group. He is also now the deputy director of Chula.AI, Chulalongkorn University's AI institute, which focuses on spreading AI literacy, bringing AI into the university operations, and fostering industry collaborations.
Committed to real-world impact, Ekapol founded Gowajee.ai to commercialize his lab’s ASR and NLP advances and co-founded U.S. startup SmartVid.io, which showcases video keyword-spotting technology. He advises Thailand’s leading banks (SCB, KBTG) on AI adoption, helps Jobtopgun enhance résumé-driven job matching, and supports startups like Homedottech in real-estate AI and OxygenAI in retail computer vision, demonstrating a broad commitment to translating machine learning research into industry solutions.
