Education

2017 - 2020

Doctor of Systems Information Science at Future University Hakodate, Japan

Motivational Techniques that Aid Drivers to Choose Unselfish Routes [CHI'19, CHI'20 LBW, Dissertation]

Advisor: Yasuyuki Sumi

2009 – 2013

Master of Science in Computer Science at De La Salle University, Philippines

Extracting Event Relations from Children's Stories

Advisor: Ethel Ong

2006 – 2009

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with specialization in Software Technology at De La Salle University, Philippines

Automatic Labeling of Thematic Roles of Verb Arguments in the Filipino Language

Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Advisor: Nathalie Rose Lim-Cheng

Employment

2013 – Present

De La Salle University, Philippines

Assistant Professor, College of Computer Studies

2012 – 2013

De La Salle University, Philippines

Research Assistant

2010 – 2012

Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore

Associate Consultant, Microsoft Solutions

2009 – 2010

Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Philippines

Researcher & Project Implementor

Academic Services

Assistant to the Papers Chair

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2019-2020

General Chair

Asian CHI Symposium 2020-2021

Associate Chair

CHI 2021

CSCW 2021

CHI Late-Breaking Works (LBWs) Track 2020-2021

Organizing Committee

MobileHCI 2022 - Social Media Co-Chair

Reviewer - Journal

Cities

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Reviewer - Conference

CSCW 2019-2020

AutoUI 2019-2020

VIS 2019

MobileHCI 2019-2020

DIS 2020

ICMI 2019-2020

ISS 2019

Asian CHI Symposium 2019-2020

IndiaHCI 2020

CHIuXiD 2019

National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium (NNLPRS) 2015-2018

Head

Center for Complexity and Emerging Technologies (COMET), DLSU 2014-2017

Civic Services Research Group, COMET, DLSU 2017-present

Professorial Chair

Pek Chiao Seng Chair of Computer Technology, Software Technology Department, DLSU 2016-2017

Emilio Yap Jr. Chair of Computer Science, Software Technology Department, DLSU 2015-2016

Coordinator

Practicum, Software Technology Department, DLSU 2013-2017

Organizations & Communities

Co-Founder

DataBeers Manila

Executive Committee

Manila ACM SIGCHI Chapter

Campus Advisor

GitHub Education

Grants, Awards & Honors

2017

Japanese Government Scholarship (PhD)

Philippine Computing Science Congress Best Paper Honorable Mention

2016

DLSU Research Congress Best Paper – Sustainability, Environment, and Energy

2013

Best Research Optimization Application, Smart-IRRI Bigas2Hack Hackathon