21-Mar-2026: Our paper, “myMNIST: Benchmark of PETNN, KAN, and Classical Deep Learning Models for Burmese Handwritten Digit Recognition,” received one of the three Best Paper Awards at ICNLP 2026, Xi'an, China.
25-Feb-2026: I gave an invited lecture titled "Liquid Neural Networks (LNNs) in Real-World Embedded AI" at KMD College, Yangon, Myanmar.
14-Nov-2025: Our paper, “Enhancing Burmese News Classification with Kolmogorov–Arnold Head Fine-Tuning,” received the Best Paper Award at iSAI-NLP 2025 in Phuket. Authors: Thura Aung, Eaint Kay Khaing Kyaw, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Thepchai Supnithi.
1-Oct-2025: Presented a 3-hour lecture to the members of the Myanmar Sar Yatwon on "The Future of Myanmar Language Research: A Collaborative Approach with NLP."
7-Sept-2025: Delivered an invited one-hour lecture at VarCamp 2025, titled "NLP & LLMs."
30-Jul-2025: I delivered an invited lecture titled "Weighted Finite State Transducers" to 2nd-year students at the Senior Professor's Special Talk program at the University of Taxila, Myanmar.
24-Jun-2025: I gave an invited lecture titled "LLM Agents" to participants of AIAT x SCBX: Financial Analysis Agent Hackathon, Super AI Engineering (Season 5), Bangkok, Thailand.
3-Apr-2025: Our paper "myNER: Contextualized Burmese Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM and fastText Embeddings via Joint Training with POS Tagging" achieved "the Best Presentation Award" at the 4th International Conference on Cybernetics and Innovations 2025 (ICCI 2025), Pattaya, Thailand.
22-Dec-2024: I gave an invited lecture titled "Neural Networks & the Evolution of AI" to the students of KMD College.
26-Nov-2024: I delivered an invited lecture titled "Innovating Myanmar’s Future with NLP/AI" at the GUSTO Innovation Bootcamp 2024 in Yangon, Myanmar.
28-Aug-2024: Our two-day project, titled "Real-time Dementia Awareness Monitoring Tool," with team members Igor Tatarnikov (UCL), Saowaluk Srikajornlarp (HPC5), and Ye Kyaw Thu (NECTEC), won the "Innovation Champions Prize" in the innovation challenge competition at the ThAiMed Initiative Workshop, held from August 26-28, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand.
19-July-2024: Our paper entitled "Statistical vs Neural Machine Translations for Khmer Braille" achieved "the 2nd Prize" at the Workshop on Research and Innovation for Students 2024, Danang, Vietnam.
31-Jan-2024: Our paper, entitled "A Study for Enhancing Low-resource Thai-Myanmar-English Neural Machine Translation," which we submitted to the ACM TALLIP Journal, has been officially accepted.
22-Dec-2023: I had the opportunity to discuss my contribution to the NICT's VoiceTra project, specifically my four-year involvement in integrating the Burmese language (2012-2016), in an interview with VOA Burmese. [Video Link: Voice Tra နဲ့ မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်]
28-Nov-2023: Our workshop paper "myNER9: Development, Manual Annotation, and Evaluation of a 9-Tag Myanmar NER Corpus via XGBoost and Bi-LSTM" achieved "the Best Paper for Workshop" at the 5th NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand.
28-Oct-2023: I delivered an invited online lecture titled 'UIs Beyond Conventional Keyboards' at the HCI Meetup from 10 to 11 AM Thailand time.
15-Jul-2023: I delivered a special online lecture titled "AI for Myanmar" as part of the Seminar on AI and Peace program at the Peace Studies Center, Myanmar Institute of Theology.
27-April-2023: I gave an invited talk entitled "Research Challenges Behind ChatGPT" at the CamTech-AI Forum Seminar Series on "ChatGPT for Higher Education: To Ban or Not to Ban, That Is the Question", CamTech University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
23-Feb-2023: I gave an invited talk entitled "Natural Language Processing for All" at the CamTech University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
8-Dec-2022: I gave a keynote speech entitled "Quantum Natural Language Processing" at the ACET 2022, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
17-June-2022: I gave a speech entitled "10 Years of NLP and AI R&D" at the Research Seminar, CODE-C, Cambodia
26-May-2022: Gave 3 hours lecture entitled "Neural Machine Translation for Language of Myanmar" at the One-Day Research Workshop on NLP for Southeast Asian Languages, RILCA DigiLING, Mahidol University, Thailand
27-Apr-2022: Gave 4 hours lecture entitled "Fundamentals of ASR and TTS" to SIIT, Thailand undergrad students.
21-Jan-2022: Our paper entitled "English to Burmese Machine Translation with Asian Pivot Languages" achieved "the Best Paper Award" and also one more paper entitled "Word to Word translation between Myanmar(Burmese) and other Ethnic languages" achieved "the Best Presentation Award" at the 3rd Joint Southeast Asian NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2021
17-Dec-2021: I gave a keynote talk at the ONA 2021, 16-17 Dec, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on "Five Projects in 2021: myPOS, myWord, sylbreak4All, KidBright4Myanmar and myTTS"
10-Nov-2021: Presenter Ma Ni Htwe Aung achieved the "Presentation Award" for the paper entitled "CRNN Based OCR for American and British Sign Language Fingerspelling" at KSE2021, Thailand.
10-Sept-2021: Released "myWord Segmentation Tool" for Myanmar language
21-June-2021: Khaing Zar Mon's submission to Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW 2021) has been accepted!
I gave a keynote speech entitled "Weighted Finite State Transducer based Spelling Checker for Myanmar Language (Burmese)" at the 1st University Research Conference on Science & Engineering (URCSE)", 23rd January, 2020, UTYCC, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar
I gave 5 full days of lectures at the "Automatic Speech Recognition Winter School", Jan 14-18, 2020 at the Computer University Banmaw, Banmaw, Myanmar
I gave a keynote speech entitled "NLP R&D for Languages of Myanmar" at the ONA 2019 Conference, 19-20 December, MPTC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
ONA committee and I organized the first tutorial entitled "NLP R&D Tutorial 2019", 19 Dec 2019, at the ONA 2019 Conference, MPTC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
We (Dr. Thepchai, Dr. Prachya and me) organized NLP lectures at YTU (12 Dec 2019), UCSY (13 Dec 2019) and UTYCC (14-16 Dec 2019) for increasing the awareness of NLP R&D in Myanmar
I gave a lecture entitled "NLP for Myanmar" at the Hands-on AI and Machine Learning, Nov 30 to Dec 1, UIT, Yangon, Myanmar
NLP R&D Summer School, Nov 14-16, 2019, UCS Monywa finished successfully!
Our paper entitled "Statistical Machine Translation of Myanmar Dialects" got "the Workshop Paper Award" at the First Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand , (We will upload the updated journal paper later)
Dr. Prachya Boonkwan (Arm) and I organized "When 1 + 1 > 2: Joint Neural NLP Models Demystified" Tutorial at the iSAI-NLP2019 conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand
I am one of the core organizers of "the First Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop", 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand
I did "Machine Translation Research Summer School (MTRSS)", Oct 8-10, at the Yangon Technological University (YTU), Myanmar
11-Aug 2019: Give a talk entitled "AI in Myanmar" at MLRS2019, DEPA, Bangkok, Thailand.
28-Feb 2019: Give a talk entitled "Natural Language Processing R&D for Myanmar language" at ICCA2019, Yangon, Myanmar.
8-Dec 2018: Give a talk entitled "Deep Learning for Myanmar Sign Language Processing" at the Ninth International Conference on Science and Engineering, 2018, Yangon Technological University (YTU), Yangon, Myanmar.
31-Oct 2018: Give a talk entitled "Statistical Vs. Neural Machine Translation" at the Conference on Science and Technology Development 2018, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar.
19-Sept 2018: Give two talks entitled "Robot Language Acquisition based on Sequence to Sequence Learning" (morning seminar) and "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" (evening seminar) at KMD Institute, San Chaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
16-Sept 2018: I did "Deep Learning Summer Schools 2018" for Myanmar students. May 21-25 at UTYCC, June 5-9 at CU Dawei, June 11-15 at CU Myeik, June 18-22 at YTU, June 25-29 at UCSY, Aug 13-17 at UCS (Mandalay), Sept 10-12 at UCS (Sittwe) and Nov 5-9 at UCS (Banmaw).
26-Feb 2018: Uploaded slide (in Myanmar language), data and code of one day class named "The Mathematics of Neural Networks" at UCSY, 19 Feb 2018.
8-Dec 2017: We released khPOS (12K Khmer Part-of-Speech Corpus) draft version 1.0 for Khmer NLP research and development.
2-Dec 2017: We did demo and poster presentations at International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2017, 3 Dec. 2017, Mandalay, Myanmar. 1. Poster of two fingerspelling keyboard layouts for Myanmar SignWriting, 2. Poster relating to machine translation between Myanmar sign language and Myanmar written text
22-Oct 2017: We released MSL4Emergency (Myanmar sign language corpus for the emergency domain), 558 videos & annotations!
20-Aug-2017: I did NLP Summer School 2017 (Aug 14-15) at University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY)
17-Aug-2017: My students and I introduced our developing Myanmar sign language corpus for emergency at PACLING2017
16-Aug-2017: I got acceptance email from HAI2017 (Human-Agent Interaction, 2017) conference committee for our poster paper entitled "Symbol Grounding from Natural Conversation for Human-Robot Communication".
31-July-2017: I'll be giving an invited talk on "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" at PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar.
17-July-2017: Released kKg Myanmar keyboard and myG2P (Myanmar grapheme-to-phoneme) dictionary (version 1)
6-June-2017: I got acceptance email from IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2017 Conf. for our short paper entitled "DNN-based Language Acquisition for Object Manipulation Task".
25-May-2017: Our papers entitled "Exploring the Effect of Tones for Myanmar Language Speech Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)" and "Myanmar Number Normalization for Text-to-Speech" have been accepted for oral presentations at PACLING 2017 conference
4-May-2017: Give a talk entitled "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Computer Studies Mandalay (UCSM), Mandalay, Myanmar
2-May-2017: Give a talk entitled "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Technology, Yatanarpon Cyber City (UT-YCC), Pyinoolwin, Myanmar
23-Apr-2017: I released myPOS (11K Myanmar Part-of-Speech Corpus) draft version 0.9 for Myanmar language (Burmese) NLP R&D !!! :)
9-Apr-2017: Let me share a good news of Asian Language Treebank (ALT) corpora for English, Japanese, Khmer and Myanmar (Burmese) languages. Enjoy! :) Link
21~26-Feb-2017: Joined CREST（記号創発ロボとティクスによる人間機械コラボレーションプロジェクト）Project Implementation Camp at Shonan Village Center, Japan
13-Jan-2017: Our paper entitled "Robot Language Acquisition Based on Sequence-to-Sequence Learning" has been accepted to appear at ICCA2017, Myanmar
31-Oct-2016: Our paper entitled "Comparison of Grapheme–to–Phoneme Conversion Methods on a Myanmar Pronunciation Dictionary" has been accepted to appear at the WSSANLP, COLING 2016 conference
12-Mar-2016: Our paper entitled "A Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Under Resourced Languages" has been accepted to appear at the SLTU 2016 workshop
3-Mar-2016: Our short paper entitled "Interlocking Phrases in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation" has been accepted to appear at the NAACL HLT 2016 conference
25~26-Feb-2016: Presented two papers (1. String to Tree and Tree to String Statistical Machine Translation for Myanmar Language, 2. Parsing Myanmar (Burmese) by Using Japanese as a Pivot) and gave a talk on Myanmar Word Representations in Vector Space at ICCA2016, Yangon, Myanmar
11-Feb-2016: Presented one paper at SNLP2016 on A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Myanmar Language
29-Dec-2015: Gave a talk on VoiceTra (brief introduction of ASR, SMT & TTS) at University of Computer Studies Taunggyi, Computer University Dawei, Computer University Myeik
4-Dec-2015: Presented one paper at Khmer Natural Language Processing 2015 (KNLP 2015) on Khmer Word Segmentation Using Conditional Random Fields
31-Oct-2015: Presented one paper at PACLIC 29 on A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language
23-Nov-2015: Press release of our work VoiceTra Myanmar language at University of Computer Studies Yangon (UCSY), Yangon, Myanmar
9-Sept-2015: Presented one paper at INTERSPEECH 2015 on HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System
13-July-2015 to 17-July-2015: Dr. Andrew Finch (Senior Researcher, NICT) and I gave lecture on Machine Translation Summer School 2015 at University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY)