Chanikarn Wongviriyawong

Co-founder and CEO, EATLAB

Industry : Science

Chanikarn’s main interests lie in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commonsense AI, Quantum AI and Complex Systems Modelling, which led to her PhD from MIT. While teaching at King Mongkut’s University of Technology in Thonburi. in 2018 she founded EATLAB, an artificial intelligence platform for the F&B industry that extracts demands from online and offline data and predicts and proposes future actions for restaurateurs to adjust pricing, promotions, menus and operations to maximize profits and revenue. Her job as a leader, she says, is to help bring out the hidden potential in her team and give them a stage on which to shine. Her inspiration for this is Dr Daisaku Ikeda and his book series The New Human Revolution, which examines how a change in one person can create a lasting impact and shift in the destiny of humankind. Chanikarn’s goals are to contribute to society, to democratise access to technology, and to build a school that fosters courage, wisdom, compassion and high values in students so they can reach their full potential.