Chanikarn Wongviriyawong

Overview

Chanikarn or Mint is a founder and CEO of EATLAB pioneering quantification of happiness cognition and grit. She founded EATLAB as the first spinout from KMUTT to serve leading food and beverage production companies by scientifically measuring consumer response to their new products. She provides consultancy to various agencies about innovation data analytics affective and cognitive modeling and commonsense artificial intelligence. Prior to joining KMUTT Chanikarn was a quantitative trader and co founded a startup Matternet while at Singularity University. Matternet is a drone delivery network now partnering with Mercedes Benz and WHO. Chanikarn received her academic training in Mechanical Engineering. She graduated a PhD from MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Political Science master degree from MIT Media Lab and bachelor degree from Carnegie Mellon University with double minors in Robotics and Computer Science.