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!

Apr 2026: Sharing my first PhD work, Polyglot Teachers! Here, I studied what makes a good teacher model for generating multilingual data. I’m excited to continue this research agenda on multilingual synthetic data generation!

Dec 2025: So excited to see the release of OLMo 3! My contribution was on creating the tool-use SFT mix during my last few months as a pre-doc. My experience here made me excited in agentic tool-use!