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Service through computingExtra-curricular activities within school
Introduction to Computing I and II
Teaching assistant: 2001-Checks papers and projects. Prepares laboratory exercises. Provides help for students through organized tutorials and informal one-on-one tutoring.
Online project submission system
Developer, Maintainer: 2001-Maintains a web-based project submission for the computer science department of Ateneo.
Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Network Team
Developer: 2000-01, Chair: 2002-Responsible for maintaining the residence hall network and coordinating other volunteer students. Improved problem-reporting system.
Computer Society of Ateneo
Developer: 2000-02, Head of Research, Academics and Training: 2001-2002
Developed school-wide web-based alternative class registration system used by over 6000 students.
Extra-curricular activites outside school
Wearable computing
Researcher: 2002-Currently working on a personal wearable computing system that allows blind users to read files, send and receive text messages and e-mail, and use other functions of the computer through speech synthesis.
The Philippine Linux Users' Group
Member: 1999-, Vice president: 2002-Actively advocates open source through essays, press conferences and presentations. Responsible for maintaining the website at http://plug.linux.org.ph
Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Research intern: Summer 2002)
As part of the Embedded Systems Division, worked on multimedia applications on the StrongARM SA-1100 development platform. Demonstrated the use of Linux on the SA-1100 and the Compaq iPAQ. Gave a presentation on wearable computing.
Open source development: Emacs Relay Chat, Compaq iPAQ bootloader (2002-)
As a volunteer open source developer, contributes code to open source projects on the Internet. Added programmable completion support to the open-source ERC project (2002). Submitted patches for the Compaq iPAQ bootloader (2002).
Association for Computing Machinery
Student Member: 2000-
Philippine Java Users' Group
Member: 2000, Head of Education: 2000-01Responsible for representing the academe in the Philippine Java Users' Group. Worked on collecting resources for teaching Java.
Conferences and talks
Speaker, "Who Says Girls Can't Do Tech?"
Linux Day, St. Paul's College 2001Speaker, "Java and Linux"
Linux10 Philippines, 2001Speaker, "Linux in My Pocket" (Linux on handheld devices)
Linux10 Philippines, 2001Organizer, CS Freshmen Orientation, 2001
Attendee, Sun University Day, Ateneo de Manila University, 2001
Attendee, Sun University Day, University of the Philippines, 2001
Competitions
International
1st place (Best Academic Solution), Microsoft Worldwide .NET Best 2002
Most Creative Solution, Microsoft Asia Student .NET Contest 2001
12th place, ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition 2001
1st place, Hewlett-Packard TechQuiz 2000
National
1st place, Microsoft Asia Student .NET Philippines 2001
Top 10, Japan IT Standards Examination, Philippines 2001
1st place, Trend Internet Software Contest 2000
1st place, Hewlett-Packard TechQuiz 2000
Publications
"Bayanihan Computing .NET: Grid Computing with XML Web Services"
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, et al. in the Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing at the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid '02), Berlin, Germany, May 2002
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