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M.L. Hariras Tongyai at work, turning a model in mid-air

Founder · Augma Imaginarium

Futurist · XR designer · AI and robotics engineer

Electronics at Queen Mary, AI and robotics at King’s College London, gamification and behavioural design at Thammasat. CTO of a digital-marketing group, director of an XR education programme, founder of four companies.

Prestige 300 Highflyer 2024, profiled in Prestige Thailand’s Innovator issue as the visionary of an augmented city.

  • 4companies founded
  • 10+years in technology
  • 300Prestige Highflyer 2024

Profile Kit 2026

“It is simply not enough to overlay a layer on top of our reality. We create worlds.”

The path

01Year · to confirm

Queen Mary University of London

BEng · Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Hyperloop for Thailand · 2017

Bachelor's project: Bangkok to Phuket in 40 minutes, to spread development beyond the capital. Innovation Award at Imperial College London, to an audience of 100+.

02Year · to confirm

King's College London

MSc · Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Humanoid hand, driven by AI and remote-controlled over a network

03Year · to confirm

Thammasat University

Gamification and behavioural design

04Year · to confirm

University of Cambridge

AI analytics certificate

My AI

Meet K.A.R.A

Knowledge Augmentation Realtime Assistant

A voice you can simply talk to. It listens, knows when you have finished, answers out loud, runs errands like a forecast or a web search, and keeps the thread of the conversation, all on our own machine.

In the press

  • Prestige Thailand“Augmented City”
    Prestige ThailandAugmented City

    May 2024 · Innovator issue

    Prestige Thailand · “Augmented City”

    A full feature on building an augmented playground in Bangkok: location-based AR games, public parks turned into interactive digital arenas, and the bridge between sci-fi imagination and real community experiences.

  • Thailand Tatler“Gaga for Gadgets”
    Thailand TatlerGaga for Gadgets

    April 2017

    Thailand Tatler · “Gaga for Gadgets”

    One of Thailand's most tech-obsessed early adopters: custom-built drones, smart-home IoT, AI experiments and Iron Man armour builds, all driven by a childhood love of science fiction.

Recognition

  1. 2024Prestige 300 HighflyerThe Prestige Thailand and the Bangkok Post, November
  2. 2024Prestige Thailand · Augmented CityFull feature, Innovator issue, May
  3. 2023Baan ARVR awardNakhon Nayok education authorities
  4. 2021AIS InTouch InVent BuilderFinalist
  5. 2021PostToday forumPanel speaker, live broadcast
  6. 2017Thailand Tatler“Gaga for Gadgets”, April

Education

  • Queen Mary University of LondonElectronics
  • King’s College LondonAI and robotics
  • Thammasat UniversityGamification and behavioural design
  • University of CambridgeAI analytics certificate
  • Harrow International School BangkokSchool · Bangkok
  • Bangkok Patana SchoolSchool · Bangkok