Dr. Maria Art Antonette Clariño is an Associate Professor and currently serving as Head of the Research and Development Division at the Institute of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB. She has published in several journals such as Philippine Computing Journal, Philippine e-Journal for Applied Research and Development, and IEEE Xplore to name a few. 

She has presented in local and international conferences for papers in machine learning, natural language processing, modeling and simulation, digital image analysis, and computing education. She is a Regular Member of the National Research Council of the Philippines and was a Board Member of the Computing Society of the Philippines Special Interest Group in Information and Computing Education for 2019-2021. 

Dr. Clariño obtained her BS Computer Science (magna cum laude), MS Computer Science (DOST-PCASTRD scholar), and PhD Computer Science minor in Botany (DOST-ASTHRDP scholar) from UPLB.