Palakorn Achananuparp (Aek)

Palakorn Achananuparp (Aek)

Senior Research Scientist

Singapore Management University

Hello!

I am a senior research scientist at School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Previously, I lead a research team at Living Analytics Research Centre in the Smart Consumption and Healthy Lifestyle application domain where we are developing personalized healthy eating and behavioral change technology for just-in-time behavioral change interventions.

My research interests include the applications of data mining, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques in digital health and well-being domains, especially food consumption and health, personal informatics and quantified self, crowdsourcing, and computational social science in general.

Interests

  • Computational Social Science
  • Data Science
  • Digital Health

Education

  • PhD in Information Science, 2010

    Drexel University

  • Master in Information Systems Management (MISM), 2004

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Bachelor in Economics, 2000

    Chulalongkorn University

Pronunciation Guide

How to say my names

I was born and grew up in Thailand. Most of the time, people call me by my nickname Aek (as in egg 🔈 Google Translate). My first name and last name are pronounced as follows:

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Contact

The primary way of contacting me is through my work email. For internal project chats, discussions, and paper sharing, I primarily use Slack. Lastly, I only accept a connection request and read messages on LinkedIn from people whom I’ve professionally met in real life.