Weerayut Buaphet

Weerayut Buaphet (วีรยุทธ บัวเพชร)

Ph.D. Student | NLP Researcher | VISTEC, Thailand

I am a Ph.D. student in the Natural Language Processing and Representation Learning Lab (NRL) at VISTEC, Thailand, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Sarana Nutanong and co-advised by Assoc. Prof. Attapol Rutherford.

Ph.D. Thesis: Resource-Constrained Named Entity Recognition. My research focuses on developing NER systems under limited-resource settings. I contributed a Thai fine-grained nested NER dataset and a bilingual (Thai–English) financial NER dataset, analyzed the generalization of encoder-based and large language model (LLM)-based NER methods to unseen entity types and domains, and studied the robustness of multilingual text normalization in informal and noisy text.

Currently working on LLM-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for the medical domain, including RAG pipeline design, evaluation, and post-training optimization of LLMs as part of the ThaiLLM project.