My colleague, Dr. Luis Sarmenta is now in the Philippines for a short visit. He is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) as a research scientist but he still maintains a faculty position at the Department of Information Systems and Communications (DISCS) of Ateneo de Manila University. Luis and I are co-investigators in an international research collaboration on content-based medical image retrieval using Grid computing (see http://www.onco-media.com/).Luis is a very talented Atenean. He graduated magna cum laude from Ateneo (B.S. Physics with Computer Engineering) and earned his masteral and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Science and Technology. He is a recipient of several major awards which include the following:
- ASEAN Young Scientists and Technologists Award. Awarded by the ASEAN only once every three years. August 2005.
- Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Awarded by the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), July 2005.
NAST-DuPont Talent Search for Young Scientists Award. Awarded by the Philippines National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and DuPont Far East, Inc., July 2003. - Microsoft ".NET Best" Awards, Worldwide 1st place Winner, Academic Category (US $125,000 total prize value for the school), for "Bayanihan Computing .NET: Grid Computing with XML Web Services." Awarded by Microsoft Corporation, USA, Aug. 2002.
- ACM/IEEE CCGrid'01 Best Paper Finalist Award. "Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms for Volunteer Computing Systems," in the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.
For more information about Dr. Luis Sarmenta, visit his website at http://people.csail.mit.edu/lfgs/
Yesterday (8/16/07) Luis gave a lecture on “Mobile Phone Applications for Health” at the Ateneo de Manila University. For an abstract of Dr. Sarmenta's lecture, see http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2007/08/invitation-talk-on-health-applications.html
For more information about this topic, e-mail me at raffysaldana@gmail.com or send a message directly to Dr. Luis Sarmenta at lfgs@mit.edu
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