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Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

ETH Zurich, Computational Social Science

Lead Postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded DIT4TraM project, researching reinforcement learning algorithms for traffic signal control and co-lecturing on complex social systems.

• Lead Postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded DIT4TraM project.
• Research on reinforcement learning algorithms applied to traffic signal control.
• Co-lecturer on 'Complex Social Systems: Modeling Agents, Learning, and Games' course.

Data Scientist and Adjunct Professor

Asian Institute of Management, ACCeSs Laboratory

Led data science projects for smart city initiatives and taught programming for data science.

• Lead Data Scientist for the MINERVA smart city project in partnership with Baguio City.
• Created an agent-based scenario for land-use forecast of Cauayan City under the PATURO smart city project.
• Conducted machine learning studies for predicting water consumption for Manila Water Company Inc.
• Taught programming for data science under the Master of Science in Data Science.
• Co-mentored MS Data Science students for their capstone projects with industry and government clients.

Research Visit

University of California Berkeley, Mobile Sensing Lab

Worked on deep reinforcement learning for coordinated traffic signals and contributed to the Flow project's API.

• Worked on Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for coordinated traffic signals.
• Contributed to Flow project's (Deep RL traffic framework) API, parallelizing Aimsun environments.

Research Fellow

Philippine--California Advanced Research Institutes --- DARE

Developed traffic simulation pipelines and agent-based models.

• Developed a pipeline for simulating traffic in Metro Manila.
• Worked on agent-based cellular automata models of traffic.
• Co-developed a Python interface to OpenTrafficModels.

Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer

Qwento Analytics

Led machine learning projects for business analytics and forecasting.

• Applied machine learning to forecast demand using two years' worth of national shoe sales data.
• Developed a business analytics dashboard for pilot clients.

Instructor

University of the Philippines Diliman, National Institute of Physics

Taught elementary and computational physics courses to undergraduate students.

• Taught elementary physics and computational physics courses for undergraduate students.

Researcher

National Institute of Physics, Instrumentation Physics Laboratory

Studied phase transitions in traffic models, geospatial analysis, and computer vision applications in transportation.

• Studied phase transitions in agent-based cellular automata models of traffic.
• Worked on geospatial analysis of OpenStreetMaps and school enrollment data from the Department of Education.
• Developed video processing techniques for traffic and pedestrian analysis using OpenCV and YOLOv3.
• Supervised graduate and undergraduate students in the Complex Systems subgroup of Prof. May T. Lim.

PhD

University of the Philippines – Diliman

Physics