Emmy Thamakaison

CEO

United States7 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a successful mental health app in Thailand.
  • Developed a virtual assistant for Electronic Health Records.
  • Led analytics dashboard project serving 7000+ Americans.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and EdTech innovator with strong AI and product management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Software Product Management

Other Skills

C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationData ModelingData ProcessingGraphic DesignHTML5ManagementMarketingPostgreSQLProject ManagementPython (Programming Language)Research DesignSQLScientific Writing

About

Emmy Thamakaison is doing ML Research @ Huawei and is studying Computer Science at Stanford (on leave). She currently runs Foundess (foundess.com), which is empowering founders beyond gender boundaries. Foundess is hosting a 500+ founder accelerator (foundess.com/hatch) supported by Silicon Valley Bank, Anthropic, Notion, Practus LLP. Previously, Emmy built a virtual assistant for Electronic Health Records @ Stanford AI Lab, KPI dashboards for 7000+ Americans as a PM @ Develop for Good, and an AI for Building Modeling (raising valuation of $8M). Back in Thailand, she co-founded and led Crying Cloud, a non-profit + app for depression therapy used by 112,000+ Thai youth and got to #2 in Medical App Rankings in the App Store (featured by Apple WWDC 2023/2024, Prime Minister Health Innovation Award). She likes to build and likes supporting other builders. Let's chat!

Experience

Massachusetts institute of technology

Research / Dev

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Developing for physionet.org (6.5K+ citations)

Perplexity

Strategist

Jan 2025May 2025 · 4 mos

Huawei

ML Engineering

Jan 2025Apr 2025 · 3 mos

  • ML + Compilers

Foundess

Co-Founder + CEO

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Making startups gender equitable: foundess.com.
  • We’re sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank, Anthropic, Notion ++

Pear vc

Fellow

Sep 2024Dec 2024 · 3 mos

  • Selected to be part of Pear VC’s Fall 2024 Female Founder Circles AI cohort (<4% acceptance).

Leapyear

F24 Batch

Aug 2024Dec 2024 · 4 mos

  • Selected as 1/8 teams for funding

Ey-parthenon

Management Consulting

Jun 2024Aug 2024 · 2 mos

  • Transactional strategy and execution $3.1b carve out of $61b deal within the telecommunications industry (the largest transaction EY has taken on the West coast).

Buildsync

Co-Founder + Builder

Apr 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr

  • The first public Text-to-BIM Platform for architects and engineers

The marriage pact

Product

Aug 2023Mar 2024 · 7 mos

  • Engineering virality across 30+ campuses. Matched 8,064 students with their algorithmic soulmate, with ~63% signup rate.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)

Develop for good

Product Manager

Jun 2023Nov 2023 · 5 mos

  • Leading team of 20 in building NeighborShare’s (NS) analytics dashboard by consolidating databases (ie. PostgreSQL, Google Cloud) and developing front/backend of interface, allowing NS’s core team to run monthly KPI reports and focus on what's important. NeighborShare serves 7000+ Americans, having distributed over 700,000 USD in donations.

Stanford artificial intelligence laboratory (sail)

ML Research

Feb 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Building SimplifAI Health, a virtual assistant for Electronic Health Records (CURIS Fellow)
  • Advised by Prof. Monica S Lam (Stanford OVAL & NLP Group)

Stanford healthcare innovation lab

Machine Learning Researcher

Jan 2023May 2023 · 4 mos

  • Predict Long COVID outcomes using ML models trained on wearable device bioinformatics. Engineered data pipelines, carried out pre-processing and algorithmic analysis of 2,000,000+ heart rate, step count, sleep data points.
  • Advised by Dr. Michael Snyder (Snyder Lab, SHIL, Stanford Dept. of Genetics Director)
Software Product ManagementPostgreSQLUIX

Stanford ases

Director of Technology

Sep 2021Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Re-building and managing ASES website, alumni database, communication channels, handbook platform with over 2000 traffic volume/month. Designing and developing web app for the 2024 annual ASES summit. During Stanford ASES Bootcamp, co-developed startup funding platform by designing UI/UX and animating functional prototype, conducting 50+ interviews per week, deliberating business strategy. Pitched to an audience of 8 Silicon Valley VCs.

Mario education

Product Manager

May 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Co-led team of 11 in launching MARIO For Me V1.1 (full-stack student management software) in 15 schools across 4 countries. Established product analytics system, saving dev team up to 800 hours/year through targeted software improvement. Designed, implemented, and tested MARIO For Me Elementary by coordinating between in-house and external teams of 27.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data ModelingData ProcessingResearch DesignPython (Programming Language)

Crying cloud

Co-Founder and Director

Jan 2021Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Directed Crying Cloud (Thailand's largest grassroots youth depression therapy non-profit) with 20M+ content reach and connecting 4000+ users to affordable therapy. Spearheaded creative development of iOS app WithU, achieving #2 in Medical Apps in Thailand and featured in WWDC 2023/2024. Project was ranked #1 out of 157 teams in Thailand’s premiere Prime Minister’s Health Innovation Award. Five of Crying Cloud’s mental health resources featured by Thai government’s broadcasting for 71.M population.

Ted conferences

TED Talker at TEDxISBangkok

Dec 2019Jan 2020 · 1 mo

  • Was a TED Talker at the annual TEDx ISBangkok. My talk, “The New Normal”, was about how society’s desensitization to the violence in the media normalises crime and is detrimental towards our compassion towards one another.

Senia youth international

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Sep 2019May 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Founded SENIA Youth International, the world’s first sustained youth-led inclusion network dedicated to advocating and providing resources for differently-abled people through inclusion and raising awareness for mental health-related topics. Responsible for setting up the website, reaching out internationally to inclusion clubs from 6 countries, creating videos and resources to encourage the creation of inclusion clubs, writing an article published in the triannual EARCOS journal, and creating communication platforms conducive to international collaboration. Currently, SENIA Youth has six chapters in four different countries and is operating in 7 countries. Was a keynote speaker at the annual SENIA Thailand conference with over 50 special educators. To find out more about SENIA Youth, visit our website seniayouth.org
Software Product Management

Chulalongkorn university

Biomedical Engineering Research Intern at Chulalongkorn Univeristy

Jun 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Interned as a researcher at the Nanobiomedical department at Chulalongkorn university, responsible for thawing and culturing cells and synthesizing nanoparticles for projects. Conducted my personal research project involving non-thermal plasma and its effect on the browning of subcutaneous white preadipocytes. Revised and added additional research to 3 published papers.

Vex robotics

Builder

May 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Responsible for designing the robot, building the robot from scratch, and fixing and troubleshooting the robot when necessary. Competed at the Taipei Annual VEX Robotics competition and was a quarter-finalist. Competed at the regional Bangkok VEX tournament and was a finalist.

Self-employed

Author and Illustrator of JJ's Squiggly Mind

Oct 2018May 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • JJ's Squiggly Mind is an English-Thai picture book dedicated to educating children and adults about ADHD as well as destigmatising ADHD overall. This book, which is backed up by professionals and research, aims to help children with ADHD better understand themselves and learn how they can live a healthy, happy life. JJ's Squiggly Mind can be freely downloaded as a e-book at jjsquigglymind.com or purchased as a hard copy. 100% of proceeds are donated to charities and social enterprises that support children with ADHD and other exceptionalities. To find out more, visit jjsquigglymind.com

Education

Stanford University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Stanford University

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Peking University

Economics

International School Bangkok

High School Diploma

Tsinghua University

The Inter-University Program for Language Studies — The International

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