CV

Education

B.S. in Computer Science (GPA: 3.75 / 4.00), University of the People, 2022 – 2025
A.S. in Computer Science, University of the People, 2022 – 2024

Work experience

June 2025 – Present: Lab. Member
- Language Understanding Laboratory
- Duties included: Developed ASR error correction techniques for low-resource Burmese; Fine-tuned Speech Modeling; Trained neural seq2seq models.
- Supervisor: Dr. Ye Kyaw Thu
Nov 2023 – May 2025: AI Engineer
- Simbolo & SimboloAI
- Duties included: Led Text-to-Image generator development; Developed Simbolo Chatbot; Built Burmese Romanization system.
Aug 2023 – Aug 2024: Junior ML Engineer
- Omdena AI
- Duties included: Managed weather forecasting data in South Alfrica and SEA; Implemented water quality prediction models in Rwanda; Spearheaded traffic congestion reduction efforts in SEA.

Achievements

Hackathon Winner, One Project One Week Hackathon (2025)
Hackathon Winner, Myanmar Python Hackathon by FTL (2025)
1st Runner-Up, Code2Career Hackathon (2025)
1st Runner-Up, Samsung AI Innovation Campus Hackathon (2024)
Program Participant, Washington Institute Quantum Program (2025)
Professional Certification, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional (2025)
Best Game Design Award, Game-Jam Hackathon by CTLA (2022)
Certification, AI Fundamentals by DataCamp (2026)

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript (Agentic AI), SQL, PostgreSQL
Machine Learning & AI: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenNMT, Whisper, LangChain, CrewAI, U-Net
MLOps & Tools: MLflow, Evidently, Docker, AWS, Git
Web & API Development: FastAPI, Flask

Publications

myMedi-Whisper: Construction of Burmese Medical Speech Corpus and Whisper Fine-Tuning for Clinical Dialogue ASR

Ye Kyaw Thu, Thura Aung, Ye Bhone Lin, Min Thiha Tun, Htet Arkar, Myat Oo Swe, Thet Htet San, Thazin Myint Oo, and Thepchai Supnithi. (2025). "myMedi-Whisper: Construction of Burmese Medical Speech Corpus and Whisper Fine-Tuning for Clinical Dialogue ASR."

ASR Error Correction in Low-Resource Burmese with Alignment-Enhanced Transformers using Phonetic Features

Ye Bhone Lin, Thura Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu, and Thazin Myint Oo. (2025). "ASR Error Correction in Low-Resource Burmese with Alignment-Enhanced Transformers using Phonetic Features."

Hackathon Experience

Winner (April 2025): One Project One Week Hackathon - Built an AI-powered LMS for rural education.
Winner (October 2025): Myanmar Python Hackathon - Developed Smart Water Distribution Optimization system.
1st Runner Up (November 2025): Code2Career Hackathon - Created FloodSync mobile app for disaster response.
1st Runner Up (September 2024): Samsung AI Innovation Campus Hackathon - Developed an autonomous waiter robot.
Finalist (May 2025): TraeIDE: Zero Limit Hackathon - Built GitGuard AI IDE agent for secret detection.