A physicist

Education

  • Ateneo de Manila University, present - Juris Doctor
    • Dean’s list, A.Y. 2024-2025 (1st and 2nd semesters)
  • 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

Ateneo Human Rights Center

Resident Intern, January 21, 2025-present

  • One of the 14 interns for the center’s 2025 Semestral Break Internship Program, where we immeresed in an indigenous peoples community in Capiz for a week
  • Volunteered or served as paralegal for the center’s legal aid clinics

Philippine Collegian

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

UP Ugnayan ng Pahinungod

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

Complex Systems Team

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. 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

1st prize, 2025 Space Policy and Law Essay Writing

  • Organized by the Philippine Space Agency
  • Read the piece here

9th UST National Campus Journalism Award

Consolation prize, Life UPdates (short story category)

  • Life UPdates was a UP system-wide literary contest held during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Read the piece here

2021 Lasallian Scholarum Awards

2019 National Schools Press Conference

  • Champion: Column Writing

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 as well as 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

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 until 2024

Former Affiliations

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).

Current Affiliation

Ateneo Human Rights Center

Last updated: Oct. 5, 2025