I'm a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching multilingual and equitable NLP, where I'm advised by Anna Korhonen. In the past, I've worked as an engineer, consultant, and researcher, mostly in the fields of NLP and AI.
I'm broadly interested in developing edge language models that serve the needs of the Global Majority. I also have a special interest in improving the state of Filipino NLP. I'm happy to discuss research and collaborate, so feel free to reach out and chat!
Recent posts
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Field Report: EMNLP 2026
Here is my field report from the EMNLP 2026 Conference in Budapest, Hungary. This was a conference of firsts as I presented my first PhD paper and my first time co-organizing a workshop!
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Edge LM Devlog: Running a language model on a Raspberry Pi 5
In this development log series, I documented how I ran a small language model on a Raspberry Pi 5. Join me in the first of (hopefully) many dev logs in the world of edge models!
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Postscript: Idle Frontier and on developing games with AI
Idle Frontier is a clicker game that challenges you to build a frontier language model in 1000 days! In this blog post, I'll talk about some reflections on developing a game with the help of large language models.
What's new?
Aug 2026: My first PhD work on multilingual synthetic data generation, Polyglot Teachers (preprint), has been accepted to EMNLP Main. See you in Budapest this October!
Aug 2026: I started my internship at the Thomson Reuters Labs - Foundational Research Team where I’ll be working with Jonathan Richard Schwarz and Shengzhuang Chen. See you around London!
Jun 2026: I will be co-organizing the upcoming Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop and Shared Task. Join us and learn more about the shared task in this link.
Jun 2026: I am part of the Scientific Committee of the Philippine Team for the International Olympiad for Artificial Intelligence. I also gave a training lecture for NLP (see lecture materials). Go Team PH!
May 2026: Gave a talk at the Analytics and AI Association of the Philippines about FilBench and on what it takes to build Filipino-centric LLMs (slides). Here’s some notes from my talk.
May 2026: Proud to release our survey on multilingual edge models (check the website!). If you know me, I care a lot about AI in the Global South, I’d like to continue doing these types of sociotechnical research, so reach out if you wanna chat!