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
Member of MultiplEYE COST Action Project for Working Groups 4 (NLP for Eyetracking Research) and 4 (Dissemination).
Member of the RAIL Initiative by Licenses.AI for Working Groups 1 (Tooling & Procedural Governance) and 3 (Advocacy and Public Policy).