Phurich Saengthong

I work on AI research and engineering, including anomalous sound detection, representation learning, post-training of audio language models, and agentic workflow engineering.

Phurich Saengthong standing outdoors

Experience

Mar 2026 – Present

Tokyo, Japan

AI Engineer

SIND-AI

Developing Japanese ASR and agentic workflows for clinical documentation.

Jul 2025 – Feb 2026

Tokyo, Japan

Research Intern

Hitachi

Researched post-training and evaluation of audio representations for anomalous sound detection.

Jun 2023 – Jun 2025

Kanagawa, Japan

Research / Teaching Assistant

Shinozaki Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo

Researching anomalous sound detection under domain shift and low-shot conditions.

Jul 2020 – Mar 2022

Thailand

Graduate Student Researcher

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center

Developed thermal-comfort control systems and human-activity recognition models.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2020

Thailand

Research Assistant

King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

Conducted thermal-comfort experiments, data analysis, and reporting.

Education

2023 – 2026

Ph.D. in Information and Communications Engineering

Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Toward a Generalized Anomalous Sound Detection System. Advisor: Professor Takahiro Shinozaki.

2020 – 2022

M.E. in AI/IoT Engineering

TAIST–Tokyo Tech, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University

2016 – 2020

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering

King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

Competitions

2nd place · DCASE 2025 Task 2

GenRep

Developed an anomalous sound detection system using large-scale pre-trained audio representations.

7th place · MLC-SLM 2025 Task II

Unified Speech LLM

Developed a multilingual speech language model for joint speaker diarization and speech recognition.

Publications

Google Scholar

2026

  • Sub-band spectral matching with localized score aggregation for robust anomalous sound detection.
    Phurich Saengthong and T. Shinozaki. Under review at IEEE TASLP.Paper

  • Retaining mixture representations for domain generalized anomalous sound detection.
    Phurich Saengthong, T. Nishida, K. Dohi, N. Yamashita, and Y. Kawaguchi. EUSIPCO.Paper

  • MemNMF: Memory-augmented NMF on LPC spectra for anomalous sound detection.
    Phurich Saengthong and T. Shinozaki. EUSIPCO.

2025

  • A unified speech LLM for diarization and speech recognition in multilingual conversations.
    Phurich Saengthong, B. Jiaramaneepinit, S. Li, M. Okumura, and T. Shinozaki. MLC-SLM, Interspeech satellite.Paper

  • GenRep for first-shot unsupervised anomalous sound detection of DCASE 2025 challenge.
    Phurich Saengthong and T. Shinozaki. DCASE technical report.Paper

  • Deep generic representations for domain-generalized anomalous sound detection.
    Phurich Saengthong and T. Shinozaki. ICASSP.Paper Code

2022

  • Thermal-comfort control using occupancy detection and fuzzy logic for air-conditioning systems.
    Phurich Saengthong, C. Charnsripinyo, S. Laitrakun, Y. Hara-Azumi, and S. Deepaisarn. ECTI DAMT & NCON.Paper

2021

  • Energy-efficient airflow control for human thermal comfort using object detection and monocular depth estimation.
    Phurich Saengthong, C. Charnsripinyo, and S. Laitrakun. KSE.Paper

  • Fusion approaches of heterogeneous multichannel CNN and LSTM models for human activity recognition using wearable sensors.
    Phurich Saengthong and S. Laitrakun. ICITEE.Paper

Service

Reviewer for anomalous sound detection and speech:

  • ICASSP 2026
  • EUSIPCO 2026
  • Computer Speech & Language
  • IEEE TASLP

Award

NSK Scholarship · NSK Scholarship Foundation, 2022