Work Experience

Faculty Member (on study leave)

Computer Science Department, National University - Manila 

Awards Obtained:
1. Researcher of the Year (2023)
2. Faculty  Excellence Awardee (2022)
3. Google AI and Tensorflow Faculty Award Recipient (2021).
4. Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (2021 - current).

(June 2018 - current) 

Lab Coordinator

NU Human Language Technology Laboratory, National University - Manila

Manages undergraduate theses working under the lab. Caters external and internal NLP projects and collaborates with industry partners concerning NLP use cases.

(June 2019 - current)

Research Fellow II

Worked as a Research Fellow for  "E-Participation 2.0: Connective Diverse Philippine Populations for Disaster Risk Management with a Toolkit Integrating Text and Speech Analytics”, a two-year collaborative project of National University, Philippines and University of California, Berkeley. 

(February 2018 - May 2018)

Reviewing :

I frequently serve as a reviewer for top international conferences in Machine Learning and NLP such as NeurIPS (2023, 2022), ICLR (2021), EMNLP (2022, 2021), ACL (2023, 2022), NAACL (2021, 2022), and COLING (2022, 2020).

Program Committee and Volunteer Services :

I have also served as a program committee member and sometimes do volunteer work for the NLP community for the following national and international conferences:

Program Committee Member, NAACL *SEM Workshop 2022

Program Committee Member, NAACL BEA Workshop 2022

Program Committee Member, i-CORE 2022

Program Committee Member, Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC) 2022

Graduate Student Volunteer, EMNLP 2021

Program Committee Member, i-CORE 2021

Graduate Student Volunteer, ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Graduate Student Volunteer, ICML 2021

Graduate Student Volunteer, NAACL 2021

Program Committee Member, ACM-WAP 2021

Program Committee Member, Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC) 2019

Other Academic and Research Engagements