Puck Treeratpituk

Work as a secretary to Dr. Pitchet, the Minister of Science and Technology (2016). Prior to that, I also work as a secretary to Dr. Weerapong, the Permanent Secretary of Science and Technology (2012-2016), where I was involved in National Policy Planning for Science, Technology and Innovation for Thailand. I was the first batch of civil servants working in the Science Park Promotion Agency, where we help Private Sectors and University to collaborate on research and innovation, and help Thai Universities in setting up Start-Up Incubation Programs.

Work in the Search Quality Research Group.

Thingbuzz.com was a social media technology startup that was acquired by Wize Commerce in 2011. Thingbuzz was one of the first social e-commerce sites and an analytics platform to measure the social conversation about products. That platform, renamed BuzzScore, was successfully integrated into Nextag.com, a Wize Commerce web property.

Work under Prof. C. Lee Giles on CiteSeerX - digital library project. I work on the problem of author disambiguation, and in automatically extracting and visualizing expert expertises from their publications. I also develop EthnicitySeer, the ethnicity classifier based on people name, and work on ethnicity-sensitive name-matching problem.

Work under Prof. C. Jamie Callan in the Information Retrieval Research Group. I work on the problem with near-duplicate detection on public-comment data and on the problem of organizing and labeling text data in ontology.

Work under Prof. Stanley Peters in developing a generic dialogue management software which supports collaborative activities between a human and devices.

Work in the Excel/Acess Group within Microsoft Office Team.