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
spaCy Machine Learning Engineer
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 & 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, 2023
  • PySwarms, Python framework for swarm optimization algorithms, 2018

Invited Talks

  • NLP Lecture for AI Olympiad (host: Martin Gomez), International Olympiad for AI, Team Philippines, 2026
  • Gumagana ba talaga ‘yan sa Filipino? Evaluating and Building Philippine LLMs (host: Michelle Alarcon), Analytics & AI Association of the Philippines (AAP), 2026
  • Artisanal Filipino Resources in the Age of LLMs (host: Charibeth Cheng), De La Salle University, Manila, 2024
  • Labeling with LLMs (hosts: Ryan Wesslen & Chang Hsin Lee), University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2024
  • Geospatial Data at Scale with Geomancer (host: Erika Legara), Databeers Manila, 2019

Professional and Community Service

  • Scientific Committee & Trainer, Philippine Team, International Olympiad for AI (IOAI), 2026
  • Co-organizer, 6th Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop & Shared Task, EMNLP ‘26, 2026
  • Election Committee Member (2026–2029 term), SIGSEA, 2026
  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR, COLM, ARR (ACL, EMNLP)
  • Journal Reviewer: Philippine Journal of Science (PJS), Philippine Computing Journal (PCJ), Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)