Pakorn Ueareeworakul

Staff Data Scientist (Agentic Systems) @ Agoda

Singapore

About

Machine Learning Engineer with more than 3 years of working experience on cutting edge AI projects in a multi billion-dollars tech company. Experienced in design and implementation of Large Language Models, AI Services, Information Retrieval Systems, and Multilingual AI Models. Currently looking for roles related to productization and commercialization of LLMs.

Experience

  • Staff Data Scientist at Agoda
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Shopee (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer
      Jan 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • In charge of pipelines for filtering and selection of LLM pretraining data

    • Machine Learning Engineer (LLM)
      Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Trained an LLM-based embedding / information retrieval model. Achieved 1.5% improvement over leading open source models in Southeast Asian Languages. Model is currently being used in scenarios such as RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), and various recall and ranking tasks. • Spearheaded the project to build a moderation system to ensure safety & compliance of AI-powered chatbot agents. Achieved more than 97.5% interception rate of conversations deemed unsafe according to business requirements. • Constructed an instruction fine-tuning dataset that improved the performance of an in-house LLM by 2% in English and Multilingual benchmark performance

    • Machine Learning Engineer (Search Algorithms)
      Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      • Developed an embedding-recall based search query rewrite service. The service was able to improve orders per user by up to 3.5%. • Was responsible for the search query rewrite module in 5 regions. Improved orders per user in these regions by 2-4%.

  • National University of Singapore ()
    • Student Researcher
      Aug 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Student researcher under the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) with focus on Variational Auto-Encoder and Bayesian Optimisation.

    • Teaching Assistant
      Aug 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Semester II Academic Year 2017/2018 - CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms Semester I Academic Year 2018/2019 - CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms Semester I Academic Year 2019/2020 - CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • Technical Advisor at RC4SPACE
    Jan 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

    RC4SPACE is a growing community for aspiring makers to interact and share ideas, promoting a collaborative spirit in creating innovative solutions within Residential College 4, National University of Singapore. At RC4SPACE, we serve as a Projects Launchpad for students to start and join projects. We also host a Makerspace for students to turn their ideas into reality. We conduct courses, ranging from 3D printing to programming, for everyone in the college, regardless of their background.