Amrest Chinkamol

อมเรศ ชินกมล /(am·ma·reːt chin·ga·mon)/

Hail from the edge of Bangkok, Interestingly, many residents of Bangkok seem to be in the dark about the location of the Buengkum district. Some even wonder if it truly exists at all. where the city’s non-stop energy vibrates under jam-packed skies alongside a semi-functional public transit.

My story started in a High-Performance Computing and Networking Laboratory, surrounded by servers humming louder than the city’s traffic. Essential for keeping them from turning into expensive heaters. About as useful to us as a snowblower in the Sahara. The original plan was doing HPC academically until a PhD. The plan did not survive contact with a persuasive senior, who, after a casual inquiry about internship opportunities, steered me into health informatics and bioinformatics. Then I found myself in the institution, ⊕
Bio-inspired Robotics and Neural Engineering (BRAIN) Laboratory, group of 2022.
Courtesy of some guy from the neighboring lab, 2022. smack right in the middle of nowhere Grid computing student, studying off the grid. No puns intended. surrounded by nothing but forest. ⊕
Satellite image of Nowhere, Google Maps, 2023.

Here is my pamphlet collection I collected along the way.

On Creating an English-Thai Code-switched Machine Translation in Medical Domain Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024

OCTAve: 2D En Face Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Vessel Segmentation in Weakly-Supervised Learning With Locality Augmentation IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 70, no. 6, 2023

The rest of my credibility lives in Publications.

Reviewer 2, probabilistically speaking, does not approve of what follows.

Ain’t ‘Amrest’ misspelled?

A foreign English teacher in elementary school took a creative swingWhere is the ethical review board when you need one? at spelling my name and landed on ‘Amrest.’ A mark so far from the original, it circled back to being right. Youthful innocence met bureaucratic inertia, and the misspelling found its way onto every official document. It has held my true identity captive ever since.

I am ‘Amrest.’ A living typo. Literally.