Last updated: October 18, 2026
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Education

University of Cambridge
Ph.D. in Computation, Cognition, and Language
2025 – Present

Waseda University
M.Eng. Information, Production, and Systems Engineering
2016 – 2018

Ateneo de Manila University
B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Minor in Philosophy
2011 – 2016

Experience

Full-time Employment

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Predoctoral Young Investigator
2023 – 2025

ExplosionAI GmbH
Machine Learning Engineer, spaCy
2021 – 2023

Thinking Machines Data Science
Machine Learning Consultant
2018 – 2021

Research Internships

Thomson Reuters Labs (2026)
Foundational Research Team
Topic: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

Preferred Networks (2018)
ChainerRL Team
Topic: Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Research

See my research page, or the full list of publications on my Google Scholar.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Churchill College Travel Grant Award. University of Cambridge. 2026.
  • UKRI Frontier Research Grant Studentship (EQUATE). University of Cambridge. 2025.
  • Cohere Labs Catalyst Research Grant. Cohere Labs. 2025.
  • Cohere Labs Aya Expedition Silver Prize for M-RewardBench. Cohere Labs. 2024.
  • Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Japanese Government Scholarship. Waseda University. 2016.
  • Cum laude (with honors). Ateneo de Manila University. 2016.
  • PhilFrance French Embassy Scholarship. Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers. 2015.
  • DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship. Ateneo de Manila University. 2011.
  • Ateneo College Scholarship. Ateneo de Manila University. 2011.

Open-source Projects

  • calamanCy, NLP toolkit for building Tagalog pipelines based on spaCy
  • PySwarms, Python framework for swarm optimization algorithms

Invited Talks

Professional and Community Service