Cattalyya Nuengsigkapian
At Google AR Perception, I develop computer vision models and advance multi-modal capabilities for AI assistants in AR glasses and goggles. My expertise, recognized with an O1 visa, lies in 3D Object Interaction and Understanding, at the intersection of Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction.
Education
Master in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Specialized in Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Systems. Co-authored influential ChromoUpdate paper (CHI'20) cited by 23 papers and featured in 50+ global news articles in 15 languages. TA'ed Performance Engineering.
Bachelor in Computer Science & Engineering
Undergrad Research & Innovation Scholar in Multi-camera indoor localization, featured in the top 14% of selected student highlight presentations among 13 projects. TA'ed Computer System Security graduate subject. Led MIT's Computer Security Club (TechSec) as President from 2018 to 2019.
Experience
Software Engineer - AR Semantic Perception
Improving Gemini model utilization for text reading. Designed and developed ML models for semantic segmentation, activity detection and scene understanding. Contributed to the SANPO dataset, a computer vision scene understanding dataset. Lead inventor on a patent (US 12520028) for a cascaded ML architecture for resource-constrained devices, earning a $5,000 award.
Software Engineer - Window Management and Productivity
Launched four Chromebook features used by millions of users, including Vertical Split View, Desks Restore, Alt-Tab Mode, and Dark/Light Mode Scheduler, with major media coverage in over 15 news articles in 5 major Chromebook and Android news outlets.
Software Engineer Intern - Detection & Security Infrastructure
Proposed solutions for security vulnerabilities in Instagram and GraphAPI reported through the Facebook Bug Bounty Program. Launched an internal C++ pipeline to extract "indicators of compromise", enabling real-time intrusion investigation instead of a 2-day delay and saving 2TB of space per day.
Launched Features and Projects
Key projects and features I've developed that impacted millions of Chromebook users and hundreds of AndroidXR users and developers worldwide
ChromeOS Vertical Split Screen
Enabled users to snap windows to the top and bottom halves of vertical screen external monitors, including rotatable displays.
ChromeOS Desks Restore
Restore windows to the correct virtual desktops after a crash or logout, facilitating a seamless transition across login sessions and different devices.
ChromeOS Dark/Light Mode Scheduler
Enabled automatic scheduling to switch to dark mode after sunset and switch to light mode after sunrise.
Personal Projects
Recent/Selected Personal Projects and Research Initiatives
HiFi-RAG
LLM & RAG, 2025
An LLM-based information retrieval system for large-scale internet corpora, winning 1st place in the Static Evaluation (Closed-Source Text-to-Text track) at the NeurIPS 2025 MMU-RAG competition.
YouVocab.com
Language Learning, 2025
A customizable YouTube vocabulary and phrase extraction Chrome extension, securing 11 early-access signups.
AR Bedtime Story
Augmented Reality, 2017
An AR storytelling experience featuring characters assignable to target objects and voice-activated visual effects (e.g., snow, rain) triggered by narration.
News Testimonials
What industry experts say about my work
You can now select 'All Desks' or 'Current Desks' when using ALT-TAB and it just works. So slick!
Bobby Payne
Founder of Chrome Unboxed
Snapping apps to the top or bottom is super useful. From my perspective and use cases, this will be a godsend for coding.
Kevin C. Tofel
Founder of About Chromebook
The improved window management is a big deal for coders and portrait artists. A vertical screen space can increase a developer's view of their code by a whopping 82%.
Kent Duke
News Reporter at Android Police
Major Media Coverage
Featured in leading tech publications worldwide
Awards & Recognition
Honors and achievements from leading organizations
Patent Award
Google - 2023
Primary Inventor, Cascade ML Architecture (U.S. Patent No. 12,520,028). Received $5,000 Award
The Winner CVPR 3DComPaT
Meta & KAUST - 2023
Won a $3,000 award by securing first place in both the coarse and fine-grained tracks for 3D Object Part and Material Understanding, competing solo against full research teams.
A Winner NeurIPS MMU-RAG
Amazon & CMU - 2025
Awarded $1,500 in AWS credits for winning the Static Evaluation (Closed-Source Text-to-Text track).
3rd Place CVPR FathomNet
Kaggle.com & FGVC10 - 2023
Placed 3rd out of 1,200+ entrants in a machine learning competition focused on marine life object detection and out-of-distribution detection.
2nd Place ECCV OmniLabel challenge
NEC Labs - 2024
2nd Place, Open-Vocabulary Contextual Object Detection: Leveraged Vision-Language models for fine-grained object detection. (2-person team)
Bronze Medal TMO
Thailand Mathematical Olympiad - 2012
Won a bronze medal at the 9th Thailand Mathematical Olympiad (TMO).
Representative TOI
Thailand Olympiad of Informatics - 2013
Represented the capital region as one of 18 students selected to compete at the National Olympiad in Informatics (TOI).
Hacker Extraodinaire
NASA JPL - 2013
Awarded the highest certificate at the MIT NASA JPL Cybersecurity CTF (one of only two recipients) by exploiting three stages of planted vulnerabilities and discovering a 0-day vulnerability.
Finalist & 3rd place side challenge
C2C CTF - 2013
Captained a 5-person team in the Cambridge2Cambridge US/UK college-level CTF, selected for achieving the top individual qualifying rank and placed 3rd in side challenge (2-person team).
Panel Judge
Code Your Dreams Accessibility Ideathon (April 1, 2023) in Chicago.
Invited Talks
A guest speaker at C3DV workshop organized by Meta and KAUST at CVPR conference.
Fun Facts
Some interesting numbers about my work and impact
70
News articles featuring my work
78,925+
News article views on my work
11
Awards from NASA JPL, Google, Meta, KAUST, Kaspersky, and more
2M+
Users impacted on Chromebook