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!