About

I’m a PhD student at Charles Darwin University working on co-design of language technologies to support disaster communication in Indigenous communities.

Prior to this, I was a faculty member at the University of the Philippines, where I taught undergraduate courses and co-advised student research projects at the UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute.

Research interests

• speech recognition and synthesis
• syntactic and semantic representations
• machine translation
• NLP for local languages
• NLP for code-switching
• Indigenous knowledge transmission
• interdisciplinary studies

Other interests

• music (I am an alumna of the UP Singing Ambassadors, and I continue to enjoy music spanning a variety of genres, from classical to synth to progressive metal)
• video games (I spend a lot of my free time playing games with friends on my PC or Nintendo Switch, and I’ve also tried my hand at Unity game development)
• visual arts (I occasionally make pixel art and ink drawings, and like to shoot photos of wildlife and landscapes when the opportunity comes)