about

Now

In September 2026 I start a fully funded Master's in Mechanical Engineering (Automation and Control) at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, joining the Machine Learning and Robotics group to work on vision-language-action systems for autonomous mobile robots. This site is where I keep my research, my projects, and notes on what I'm working on. If any of it connects to what you do, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Speaking at the EMPM Forum

I was invited to speak at the EMPM Student Forum, held at KMUTT in Bangkok on 22 and 23 September under the theme Voices of Tomorrow: Creating Opportunities through Mobility. The forum brings together students and alumni of the EU Mobility Programme for Myanmar to trade experiences and talk about what comes after the scholarship.

I joined the fireside talk "What Opportunities Are Available Out There?", which is a question I would have liked someone to answer for me at twenty. Much of what I said came down to the same thing this page is about: the path is rarely linear, and starting over is not the same as starting from nothing.

Don't just study abroad, build abroad.

Starting over

In 2023 I moved to Thailand and began an engineering degree again from the ground up at KMUTT. I finished my Automation Engineering degree there in 2025, and this time the research came together. My thesis was on detecting methane gas leaks with an infrared camera, which grew into a paper that won Best Paper at IEEE ICoICT 2025. I also co-authored a Q1 journal paper on eddy current testing for railway inspection.

Along the way I worked across a few labs and roles. I wrote SLAM code in C for a perception project with CODIA Lab and Panasonic Singapore, worked on vehicle control with micro-ROS for a Formula Student project, built agentic LLM workflows during an internship at HoneyHunt.AI, and spent about a year as a machine learning researcher at KMUTT's Maintenance Technology Center, building data pipelines and anomaly detection for industrial inspection.

Teaching, and a full stop

I joined ConceptX International School to teach computer science and robotics, first to primary and lower-secondary students and later IGCSE Computer Science. I became Head of Department before I left.

Then things fell apart for a while. The political situation in Myanmar made it impossible to continue as before, and I left my degree at YTU unfinished. For a stretch, the plan I had been building for years simply stopped.

FIRST Global, and L.O.R.A

2019 was the big year. I mentored Team Yangon at the Myanmar RoboLeague and we won the championship. That took us to the FIRST Global Challenge in Dubai, where the team placed 82nd out of 189 countries and came home with the Judges Award. Meeting young engineers from all over the world there changed how I thought about what was possible back home.

That trip is what led to L.O.R.A, the Laboratory of Robotics and AI. I founded it in 2019 and it grew into a group of about forty-four undergraduate students, one of the first youth-run robotics research teams in Myanmar. When COVID hit, we built disinfection robots, the Spray RoboTeam, and donated them to Wai Bar Gi Hospital in Yangon. We competed at Makerfest 2020 and represented Myanmar at a regional technology exchange festival. I still think of L.O.R.A as one of the things I'm proudest of.

Yangon

I started at Mandalay Technological University in 2014 and moved to Yangon Technological University the year after. Coursework was one part of it, but robotics was where I actually spent my time. In 2016 a few of us co-founded STA, the first student science and technology group at YTU. We recruited students, ran tech talks, and taught Arduino and programming workshops to younger students.

From there it turned into competitions. In 2017 my friends and I organized the first LEGO SUMO robotics contest at YTU. The next year it grew into the YTU Mini-Rolympics, with three different robotics events and eleven teams I helped organize and mentor. By 2019 it had become a real tournament: fifteen teams, company sponsors, and coverage on local media. Somewhere in the middle of all this I was also part of Myanmar's group at the Asia Science Camp in 2018.