CV

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Education

• since 2022: Ph.D. (ongoing), Charles Darwin University
• 2019–2021: M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Thesis: Universal Dependency Treebanking and Parsing for Tagalog
• 2014–2019: B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, cum laude, University of the Philippines Diliman

Work experience

• 2019–2022: Faculty member, UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute
  • Positions held: Teaching Associate, Senior Lecturer
  • Subjects taught: EEE 111 (Introduction to Programming and Computation), EEE 121 (Data Structures and Algorithms), EEE 147 (Digital Signal Processing), CoE 197 C (Introduction to Audio and Speech Signal Processing)

Publications

G2P and ASR techniques for low-resource phonetic transcription of Tagalog, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon

Angelina Aquino, Joshua Lijandro Tsang, Crisron Rudolf Lucas, and Franz de Leon. 2019. G2P and ASR techniques for low-resource phonetic transcription of Tagalog, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), Quezon City, Philippines. IEEE.

SukatWika: An Analysis Software for Linguistic Properties of Texts

Kathrina Lorraine Lucasan, Angelina Aquino, Francis Paolo Santelices, and Dina Ocampo. 2019. SukatWika: An Analysis Software for Linguistic Properties of Texts. In Proceedings of the International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide, Paris, France.

Awards and Scholarships

• 2022: DOST-SEI Foreign Graduate Scholarship in Priority Fields in Science and Technology (Department of Science and Technology, Philippines)
• 2019: Samsung Research Excellence Award (Samsung R&D Institute Philippines)
• 2015: DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship (Department of Science and Technology, Philippines)
• 2014: Oblation Scholarship (University of the Philippines)

Research Advisees

• 2021–2022
  • Marc Dominic Enriquez: Scalogram vs Spectrogram as Speech Representation Inputs for Speech Emotion Recognition using CNN (undergraduate project)
  • Jomari Ganhinhin and Maria Donnabelle Varona: Voice Conversion of Tagalog Synthesized Speech Using Cycle-GAN (undergraduate project)
  • Jazzmin Maranan: An automated recognition system for phonological awareness of kindergarten students in Filipino (undergraduate project)
  • Jherwin Pinto: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Pangasinan Language (undergraduate project)
• 2020–2021
  • Edsel Jedd Renovalles: Text-to-Speech Systems for Tagalog using Unit Selection and Deep Learning (undergraduate project)
• 2019–2020
  • Moses Visperas: Tagalog Pangasinan Statistical Machine Translator (undergraduate project)
  • Maria Jeanela Avila and Edel John Lopez: Comparative Analysis of MFCC, LFCC, LPCC, and their Fusions as Acoustic Features for Speaker Diarization (undergraduate project)
  • John Joseph Gopez, Marybel Grace Layug, Tristan Miguel Montañez, and Anthony John Noroña: Speech Denoising in Deep Audio Visual Speech Recognition Systems for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition (undergraduate project)

Skills and Interests

• fluent in Tagalog (mother tongue) and English (CEFR C2 proficiency)
• basic understanding of Bikolano, Japanese, and French
• experienced in Python, MATLAB, C++, C, C# for Unity, Java, and LaTeX
• interested in natural language processing for Philippine and Indigenous languages, community-driven and open-access technologies