Professional Engagement
Some Highlights
President, Computing Society of the Philippines, 2017-2018 to 2021-2022. Vice-President, 2016-2017. Member of the Board, Computing Society of the Philippines, 2009- 2022.
Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) Chair/Co-Chair/Member, PiCAB, Philippines, which is a provisional member of the Seoul Accord. 2015-present
Chair, Technical Committee on CS, CHED, Philippine Government, March 2011 to December 2011 to present. Member, Technical Panel in IT Education, Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippine Government, March 2011 to December 2011 to present. Extension of Appointment: March 2012 – December 2014; January 2015 - December 2016.
Association for Computer Machinery Women in Computing Asia Pacific ACMWAP, Celebration Chair, 2019 to present. https://acmwap2021.national-u.edu.ph/committee
President, Board, AsiaLex http://www.asialex.org/, President, 2017-2019. Vice-President, Board, AsiaLex http://www.asialex.org/, President, 2015-2017. Member, Board, AsiaLex http://www.asialex.org/, President, 2015-2017.
Computing Society of the Philippines Special Interest Group on Women in Computing (CSP SIG-WiC) https://sites.google.com/site/roxasreo/home/community-engagement/wic in partnership with the Association for Computing Machineries Women in Computing.
Computing Society of the Philippines Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (CSP SIG-NLP)
NLPPhil
CSR-NLP Ⅰ, The First Computing Social Responsibility Workshop-NLP Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibilities, Member Organizers and Committee, https://csr-nlp.github.io/CSR-NLP-2022/
INDUSTRY-RELATED ENGAGEMENT
Consultant. Natural Language Processing Consultant. August 2017 to November 2020. AI-Pros. Contact: George Yang (with Dado Banatao and Henry Sy, Jr.)
AWARDS RECEIVED
Commission on Higher Education Research Chair Awardee. August 2016 to May 2018. CMO 18 Series of 2015. http://www.ched.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CMO-No.-18.pdf
Invited Guest. NUS-Research Institute. December 2012. Suzhou, China.
Invited Guest. Tajikistan, eParticipation and the gCIO program of the Philippines. 2012.
AWARDEE. Gawad Lasalyano. Ika-10 ng Agosto 2012. Gawad Br. Cecilio Hojilla FSC, Namumukod-tanging mga Katuwang sa Lasalyanong Misyon, Pakikisangkot sa Komunidad (Mga Katuwang sa Panlabas), DLSU.
AWARDEE. Distinguished Alumni award. UPLB-CAS-ICS. December 13, 2012.
7TH PLACER, National Licensure Examination for Teachers, Philippine Regulatory Commission, August 26, 2007 Examination, Philippines.
RESEARCH-RELATED GRANTS
Project Leader. Philippine California Advanced Research Institutes (or PCARI). June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2018. with Professor Dr. Ken Goldberg of the University of California - Berkeley as Principal Investigator of the US team. E-Participation 2.0: Connecting Diverse Philippine Populations for Disaster Risk Management with a Toolkit Integrating Text and Speech Analytics. http://pcariofficial.blogspot.com/p/institutes_16.html
INVITED PRESENTOR. Public Health in Asia: Rights, Risks, Redistribution, and Resilience, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 6 & 7, 2013.
Invited Guest. NUS-Research Institute. December 2012. Suzhou, China.
Invited Guest. Tajikistan, eParticipation and the gCIO program of the Philippines. 2012.
Visiting Scholar. School of Computing. National University of Singapore. Human Language Technology Research in the Philippines. Singapore, October, 2011.
Visiting Scholar. Department of Human Language Technology, InfoComm and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August, 2009
Visiting Scholar. Institute of Linguistics & Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, February, 2008.
MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
Working Group Committee – Country representative. ASEAN- Machine Translation. July 2012 - June 2015. www.aseanmt.org
President, Board, AsiaLex http://www.asialex.org/, 2017-2019. Vice President, 2015-2017. Member, Board, 2013-2015.
Country Representative. O-COCOSDA http://www.cocosda.org/. 2008 to 2019.
Country Representative. Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/paclic-steering/. 2007 to present.
Member, Technical Panel in IT Education, Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippine Government, March 2011 to December 2011. To present. Chair, Technical Committee on CS, CHED, Philippine Government, March 2011 to December 2011. Extension of Appointment: March 2012 – December 2014; January 2015 - December 2016. To present.
Associate Member, National Research Council of the Philippines, DOST, from Sept 28 2018 to present.
Founding Chair, Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (SIG NLP) of the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), November 2010.
Founding Chair, Special Interest Group on Women in Computing (WiC) of the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), November 2014.
President, Computing Society of the Philippines, 2017-2018 to present. Vice-President, 2016-2017. Member of the Board, Computing Society of the Philippines, 2009- present.
Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) Chair/Co-Chair/Member, PiCAB, Philippines, which is a provisional member of the Seoul Accord.
Competency-based Community Outreach
TBTA : http://www.thebibletranslatorsassistant.org/AboutUs.aspx
PCARI project: with the Manila Deaf Community. 2016-2018.