Daniel Sebastianne B. Daiz
Education
- Ateneo de Manila University, present - Juris Doctor
- 2nd Honors, A.Y. 2024-2025 (1st and 2nd semesters)
- 2nd Honors, A.Y. 2025-2026 (1st semester)
- University of the Philippines Diliman, 2024 - Bachelor of Science in Physics
- University scholar, A.Y. 2020-2021; 2021-2022 (1st and 2nd semesters)
- College scholar, A.Y. 2022-2023 (1st semester)
Volunteer Work and Experience
Resident Intern, January 21, 2025-present
- Immersed with the Panay-Bukidnon indigenous people’s community in Jamindan, Capiz
- Served as paralegal for the Center’s legal aid clinics
- Prepared affidavits and managed case folders for the cases handled by the Center
- Interviewed clients regarding their case, and reported the recommendations to the supervising lawyer
- Supported projects relating to indigenous people’s rights, access to justice, anti-impunity, and media freedom
- Participated in capacity-building trainings (e.g., trauma-informed client interview, documentation and scoping)
Writer and Editor, 2019-2024
- As a member of the official student publication of the University of the Philippines Diliman, I covered the issues affecting the university, human rights, and the budget, while occasionally writing opinion pieces
Volunteer, UPCAT-Affirmative Action Program (2023)
- Administered mock UPCAT exams in two high schools in Tarlac province
- Introduced the University of the Philippines’s academic programs to high school students in far-flung villages
Undergraduate Researcher, 2021-2024
- My undergraduate research focused on exploratory data analysis of precinct-level election results
- I primarily used Python and MATLAB to extract features (voting patterns) from my dataset using remote-sensing techniques such as hyperspectral unmixing
Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission
Volunteer, September 2021-January 2022
- Indexed sworn statement of claims for reparation (under R.A. No. 10368) by Martial Law victims
- Read and summarized the decision of the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board for denying/granting those claims
- This internship was part of the coursework for the Civic Welfare Training Service under Prof. Zita Concepcion Calugay
Ateneo de Naga University Natural Sciences Department Laboratory
Intern, January 2019
- This internship was part of the coursework for the work immersion program of the senior high school curriculum
Awards and Recognitions
Space Policy and Law Essay Writing
- First price: Where do we draw the line
- Organized by the Philippine Space Agency
9th UST National Campus Journalism Award
- Special jury citation: The Board of Regents Faces a Confidence Crisis of Its Own Making
- Special jury citation: The Transportation Crisis Is an Affront to Our Right to Live
Life UPdates (short story category)
- Life UPdates was a UP system-wide literary contest held during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Consolation prize: What happens when a physicist goes on AWOL
2021 Lasallian Scholarum Awards
2019 National Schools Press Conference
- Champion: Column Writing
Some Leadership Roles
2022-2023: Editor-in-chief, Philippine Collegian, the official student publication of UP Diliman
- Led a newsroom consisting of 40 persons and produced monthly magazine issues
- Managed and evolved the publication’s online presence by maximizing social media and search engine optimization tools
- Wrote in-depth reports and regular opinion pieces on various topics
2021-2024: News editor, Philippine Collegian
- Capacitated and professionalized the news room by instituting policies and workflows to optimize the writing, editing and presswork
- Trained and developed various writers
2018-2019: Executive Editor, Kurit Bulawan the official student publication of Ateneo de Naga Senior High School
- Also served as guest editor from 2019 to 2024
Some Creative Works
Curator, Above the Fold: Pages of the Philippine Collegian Under Marcos Regime
- An exhibit showcasing the Philippine Collegian’s pages and reportage during before, during and after the Marcos Sr. regime
- The exhibit was originally through an online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the First Quarter Storm
- Partnered with the University Archives and crowdsourced from the alumni to obtain and complete the publication’s archive of issues (from 1920’s to present)
- Secured funding from the Office of Initiatives for Culture and the Arts, in partnership with the UP Bulwagan ng Dangal Museum to implement the program
- Led a team of 20 people for the exhibit and its launch through a public roundtable discussion
Copyeditor and contributor, Points of Contact: The 2021 Philippine Collegian literary anthology
- Contributed an essay for the literary anthology dealing with the value of distance and space amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Served as a copyeditor for the literary anthology which was funded in part by the University of the Philippines Diliman
Contributor, KALAzine Tomo I, Blg. 3
Contributor, Project Pesante
Contributor, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Former Affiliations
- 2019-2024: Philippine Collegian
- 2021-2024: Complex Systems Team, Instrumentation Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Physics
Publication
- DSB Daiz and MT Lim, Evaluating the 2022 Philippine Senate Election voting patterns extracted using hyperspectral unmixing, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 42, SPP-2024-PB-12 (2024).
Last updated: Jan. 30, 2026