News
2024
- Joined Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor
- Assumed co-directorship of Political Psychology of Democratization Laboratory
- Chaired Tutorials for ICWSM 2024
2023
- TA for Dynamic Network Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University
- Joined Journal of Social and Political Psychology and PLoS One as an Editorial Board member
- Received Misumi Award for Best Paper from the Asian Association of Social Psychology
- Received ICWSM Best Reviewer Award for third consecutive year
- Received award for Outstanding Scholarly Work with Most Social Impact from the Ateneo de Manila University
2022
- Received ICWSM Best Reviewer Award for second year in a row
- Spoke at ObserVAW’s online roundtable on digital violence about my research on “Online Hate in the Philippines”
- Spoke to the South Big Data Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group about my research on “Online Hate Networks”
2021
- Named Knight Fellow by the Center for IDeaS
- Joined Big Data & Society as an assistant editor
- Received ICWSM Best Reviewer Award
- Received award for Outstanding Scholarly Work from the Ateneo de Manila University
- Spoke at the Eradicate Hate Summit about my research on “Network Dynamics of Online Hate Communities”
- Spoke at the IDeaS Conference on Social Cybersecurity about my research on “Distinguishing Trolls and Bots”
2020
- Received my Master’s degree in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon!
- Named runner-up at the SBP-BRIMS Disinformation Challenge
- Spoke at the IDeaS Conference on Social Cybersecurity about my research on “Racism during the Pandemic”
- Spoke at the IDeaS Conference on Social Cybersecurity about my research on “State-Sponsored Information Operations”
2019
- Joined The Peace Psychologist as an associate editor
- Spoke at Columbia University’s Workshop on Disinformation and Elections about my research on “Bots in the Philippines”
- Spoke at the University of Massachusetts Workshop on Global Disinformation Architectures about “Disinformation and Big Data”
- Spoke at the Institute of Philippine Culture about my research on “Collective Emotions in the Philippines”
2018
- Started my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University!
- Completed research fellowships at Heidelberg University and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology
