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Cesar A. Buenaventura UP Centennial Professorial Chair
A new school year just started ...
Our involvement with AI4PEP continues! We are priviledged to take part in this international research program (16 countries in the global south), and we are one of only four in Asia! The theme of this Canadian-funded (IDRC) research project is using AI/ML and other new technologies for pandemic and epidemic preparedness. In support of this goal, graduate and undergrad students in the lab will be:
1) Starting a new heading, "Environmental Surveillance for Health"! This could stand on its own, or might be a continuation of the earlier efforts on early warning, now concentrating on the "watch" part of: watch, warning and emergency. We continue to lay-out research with under-served, remote, isolated communities in the Western Visayas, which present the challenge of being data-poor, have spotty communications links, and inaccessible!
Ultimately, we want to make real-time warnings and projections for health concerns, particularly with infectious diseases.
2) We have made headway with using inference diagrams and Bayesian networks in a mental health application. Using methods from Gab Santos' MS thesis. The cascade is: Epidemic -> may or may not have physical symptoms -> mental health and well-being issues for individuals. This will now be extended to explore other nodes/events, like: financial and economic state of the community, security and other community concerns as a result of the pandemic, aside from mental health issues. The final node might be: "state of the community after the pandemic".
You may email me at: bongolan@up.edu.ph.
My CV.
External Reviewer for "Science for DRM 2020" by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission;
contributors found here.
Journal Referree: Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk.
Selected Publications:
An Enhanced Agent-based Model of the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Reaction
Roy V.L. Canseco, Rizalinda de Leon, Vena Pearl Bongolan, Jose Yap IV.
Book chapter in “Advanced Modeling and Control of Chemical and Biochemical Processes”, 2025
Dr. Sudip Chakraborty, Prof. Stefano Curcio, Eds., CRC Press
J. B. Gaano, C. Rule, J. Jr. Celeste, V. P. Bongolan, R. L. Rivera, S. E. Caoili
April 2024 “International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,” ISI-indexed proceedings.
Jose Marie Antonio Minoza, James P. Terry, Nigel Winspear, James Goff, Vena Pearl Bongolan
“Marine and Petroleum Geology”, SCIE, Q1, IF 5.361
January, 2024. Pre-Proof. Doc version here.
AOGS 2024 (Gangwon, South Korea) 23-28 June
Jose Marie Antonio MIÑOZA, Vena Pearl BONGOLAN, James GOFF, Nigel WINSPEAR, James TERRY
Optimal Stopping of Natural Hazard Cascades
Gabriel Lorenzo SANTOS, Vena Pearl BONGOLAN, Jesus Emmaneul SEVILLEJA
Jose Marie Antonio MIÑOZA, Jimuel Jr CELESTE, Vena Pearl BONGOLAN, Romulo DE CASTRO
Sustainable Development Goal Target Interactions in the Philippines: A Two-Method Approach
Bongolan, Vena Pearl, Soria, Spencer C., Rivera, Roselle Leah K.
Philippine Journal of Science Vol. 152 No. 3, June 2023
A Landslide Model Using a 3D Ultradiscrete Burgers’ Equation
Javellana, L. (2023).
In: Krouska, A., Troussas, C., Caro, J. (eds)
Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference (NiDS 2022). NiDS 2022.
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17601-2_19
School Reopening Simulations with Covid-19 Agent-based Model for the Philippine Regions
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Nico Andrew Francisco, Martin Thomas Saliba, Jimuel Jr. Celeste
Philippine Engineering Journal Vol 43, No 2 (December, 2022)
medRxiv here.
James P. Terry, James Goff, Nigel Winspear, Vena Pearl Bongolan, Scott Fisher
AOGS Geoscience Letters (June 2022) , SCIE, Q1, IF 4.2
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Jose Marie Antonio Minoza, Romulo de Castro, Jesus Emmanuel Sevilleja
JMIR, April, 2021, SCIE, Q1, IF 7.4
SDG Target Interactions: The Philippine Analysis of Indivisible and Cancelling Targets
VP Bongolan, AAM Valdez, RLK Rivera
Journal of Global Business 10 (2) 2021
J. Rayo, J. Seriosa, J. Villa Juan and V.P. Bongolan
Won a "Best Paper Award" at PhilGeos 2021, November 2021
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W6-2021, 243–248, 2021, ISI-indexed proceedings.
School Re-opening Simulations with COVID-19 Agent-Based Model for Quezon City, Philippines
J.J. Celeste and V.P. Bongolan
Won a "Best Oral Presenter Award" at PhilGeos 2021, November 2021
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W6-2021, 85–90, 2021, ISI-indexed proceedings.
V. P. Bongolan, K. K. Ang, J. J. Celeste, J. M. Minoza, S. Caoili, R. L. Rivera, and R. de Castro
Finalist at the Undergraduate Research Competition, College of Engineering, June 2021
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W6-2021, 65–70, 2021, ISI-indexed proceedings.
Agent-base Fire-spreading Model in a Dense Urban Community
M. D. Asiddao and V. P. Bongolan
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W6-2021, 35–40, 2021, ISI-indexed proceedings.
MODELLING, SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION OF A MULTISPECIFIC PHILIPPINE SEAGRASS MEADOW
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Gabrielle Marie Torres, and Joseph Earl Branzuela
PhilGEOS x GeoAdvances 2019
November 14 & 15 - Manila, Philippines
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-4/W19, 77–82, 2019, ISI-indexed proceedings.
POST-DISASTER RECOLONIZATION OF MANGROVE FORESTS WITH A STOCHASTIC AGENT-BASED MODEL
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Joseph Earl E. Branzuela and Gabrielle Marie Q. Torres
PhilGEOS x GeoAdvances 2019
November 14 & 15 - Manila, Philippines
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-4/W19, 71–75, 2019, ISI-indexed proceedings.
Recognising the perils of landslide-generated tsunamis in the Asia–Pacific region
James P. Terry, James Goff, Nigel Winspear, Vena Pearl Bongolan
Short Communication, Natural Hazards, First online 06 August, 2019, SCIE, Q1, IF 3.158
Xavier Eugenio Asuncion, Abdul-Rashid Sampaco III, Henry Adorna, Joselito Magadia, Vena Pearl Boñgolan, and Arturo Lluisma
Accepted to Philippine Journal of Science, August 2019.
RE: "surprising landslide-induced tsunami"
James Terry, James Goff, Vena Pearl Bongolan,Nigel Winspear
Science 11 Jan 2019: Vol. 363, Issue 6423, pp. 106-108
DOI: 10.1126/science.363.6423.106, Q1, IF 56.9
A Probabilistic Approach to Risk Mapping for Mt. Etna
V.P. Bongolan, R. Rongo, V. Lupiano, D. D'Ambrosio, W. Spataro, Giulio Iovine. Arxiv, Oct. 2013.
a later paper, with a different (less effective) scaling approach:
R. Rongo, D. D’Ambrosio, G. Iovine, F. Lucà, V. Lupiano, V.P. Boñgolan,W. Spataro.
CMES, vol.109-110, no.2, pp.105-130, 2015. SCI-indexed.
Scalar Transport in an Oscillatory Velocity Field Evolving Under Boundary Noise.
V.P. Bongolan, J. Duan, and G. Skountrianos
Philippine Computing Journal (May 2011), Vol. VI, No. 1, 9-16. Partly supported by NSF Grants DMS-0203926 and DMS-0112351.
Presented at the Second International Conference on Random Dynamical Systerms,
Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China, June 20-22, 2011, with a travel grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Republic of the Philippines, through the ERDT Consortium.
Dynamics of Transport under Random Fluxes on the Boundary.
V.P. Bongolan-Walsh, J. Duan, and T. Ozgokmen:
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2008), Vol. 13, No. 8, 1627-1641.Partly supported by NSF Grants DMS-0203926 and DMS-0112351.
In Top 25 Hottest Articles. ISI, Q1, IF 4.186
Impact of Boundary Conditions on Entrainment and Transport in Gravity Currents,
V.P. Bongolan-Walsh, J. Duan, P. Fischer, T. Ozgokmen and T. Iliescu
Applied Mathematical Modelling, 31 (7):1338-1350, 2007 :
Partly supported by NSF Grant # DMS- 0203926. SCIE, Q1, IF 5.44
Enstrophy and Ergodicity of Gravity Currents.
V.P. Bongolan-Walsh, J. Duan, H. Gao, T. Ozgokmen, P. Fischer and T. Iliescu
2004, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Springer 140, 61-78.
Partly supported by NSF Grant # DMS-0209326 and DMS – 0139073
Recurrent Motions in the Nonautonomous Navier-Stokes System.
V.P. Bongolan-Walsh, David Cheban and Jinqiao Duan
2003, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems: Series B, 3, 255-262.
Partly supported by NSF Grant # NSF-0139073. Abstract Below, in RTF format. SCIE-indexed.
Pre-Prints and Conference Presentations
COVID-19 Agent-Based Model with Multi-objective Optimization for Vaccine Distribution
Josel Marie Antonio Minoza, Vena Pearl Bongolan, Joshua Frankie Rayo
Jose Marie Antonio Minoza, Jesus Emmanuel A. D. Sevilleja, Romulo de Castro, Salvador E. Caoili, Vena Pearl Bongolan
Modeling the Dynamics of COVID-19 Using Q-SEIR model with Age-stratified Infection Probability
Joshua Frankie Rayo, Romulo de Castro, Jesus Emmanuel Sevilleja, Vena Pearl Bongolan
Storm Surge Modeling, Simulation and Early Warning System in the Philippines Using ADCIRC + SWAN
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Alezon Maxine Valerio and Michael Tyrone Garcia
fully supported presentation at RCND 2019, 25-26 November, 2019, Putrajaya, Malaysia
Storm Surge Modeling, Simulation and Early Warning System in the Philippines
best poster in Interdisciplinary Geosciences, AOGS 2019, Singapore
What is the Best Way to Model a Landslide? Or a Tsunami?
Vena Pearl Bongolan, Joshua Frankie Rayo, Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza
oral presentation, AOGS 2019, Singapore
An Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals and Their Interactions
Wystan Concepcion, James Gabriel Abaja, Vena Pearl Bongolan
poster presentation, AOGS 2019, Singapore
Stochastic Storm Surge Modeling in the Philippine Archipelago Using ADCIRC+SWAN
Joshua Frankie RAYO, Vena Pearl BONGOLAN
- a fully-supported presentation at the The 10th Regional Conference on Environmental Engineering (RC EnvE 2017)
Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 30-31 October, 2017, Ha Noi
(courtesy of Aun/Seed-Net, JICA and HUST)
Agent-Based Model of Mangrove Forest Regrowth
Andrew Vince LORBIS, Vincent Paul FIESTADA, Vena Pearl BONGOLAN
invited to the 5th International Conference on Random Dynamical Systems
23-27 June, 2017, HUST, Wuhan, China.
Ultradiscretization of the Burger's Equation for Landslide Modeling
Lee Javellana and Vena Pearl Boñgolan
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 13th Annual Meeting, 31 July - 5 August 2016, Beijing
3D Printing Optimization Through Projection-Assisted Parameter Search (PAPS)
Niña Kamilla Quiazon and Sarah Samonte
Adviser: Vena Pearl Bongolan, PhD; Co-Adviser: Giovanni Tapang, PhD
an oral presentation at the 2016 Annual Convention of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines
Cebu City, Philippines. 30-31 May 2016
A Scenario and Sensitivity Analysis for Flooding Vulnerability Using Genetic Algorithms
V.P. Bongolan, O. Terranova, E.N. Apostol, J.K Cruz
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 12th Annual Meeting, 2-7 August 2015, Singapore
Earlier work from 2015 and 2013.
Phase Portraits of Superficial Flows in Risk Mitigation
V.P. Bongolan, G. Iovine, R. Rongo, W. Spataro, D. D'Ambrosio, G. Spingola
presented at AOGS 11th Annual Meeting, 28 July - 01 August 2014, Royton Sapporo Hotel, Japan
(co-convenor of session IG01).
Markov Chain Monte Carlo optimization of visible light-driven hydrogen production
Canseco, Roy Vincent L.; Bongolan, Vena Pearl, TENCON 2012 - 2012 IEEE Region 10 Conference , vol., no., pp.1-5, 19-22 Nov. 2012
doi: 10.1109/TENCON.2012.6412278
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