About the Speaker: Dr. Rafael P. Saldaña

Rafael P. Saldaña, Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief
Philippine Information Technology Journal

Associate Professor
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
School of Science and EngineeringAteneo de Manila University (AdMU)
Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
PHILIPPINES

Tel./Fax: +63 2 4266125 or +63 2 7090907
Mobile: +63 928 5043121
E-mails: rsaldana@ateneo.edu, raffysaldana@gmail.com

Web Page: http://raffysaldana.page.tl
BLOG: http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com

• Ph.D. in Mathematical and Computational Biophysics (Computational Science) from Monash University, Australia
  


• Coordinator, GRID and High-Performance Computing Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University
  


• Co-Principal Investigator, ONCO-MEDIA Project ( http://www.onco-media.com )
  Project Leader for Ateneo de Manila University -- EUAsia Grid Project ( http://www.euasiagrid.org )
  


• Philippine Partner, Germany-Philippines Collaboration Project on PANDA Grid
  


• Project Leader for Ateneo de Manila University -- Philippine e-Science Grid Project (PSI-GRID)
  


• Editor-in-Chief, Philippine Information Technology Journal (PITJ)
  


• Managing Editor, Philippine Computing Journal (PCJ)
  


• Immediate Past President, Computing Society of the Philippines
  


• Member, East Asia Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (EASIAM) Executive Committee
  


• Convenor, International Symposium on ICT For Health
  


• Convenor, International Workshop and Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Grid Computing
  


• Director, ACM ICPC Asia Proramming Contest -- Manila Site
  Director, Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (AMC ICPC Philippines)
  


• Member, Technical Panel on ICT, PCASTRD, Department of Science and Technology (CHED)
  


• Member, TPITE Technical Committee on IT Curriculum Development, Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
  


• Former Director, Philippine Science High School Main Campus
  


• Past President, Rotary Club of Agham (International District 3180)
  

Research Interests

• cellular automata
  


• scientific computing
  


• cluster and grid computing
  


• biomedical computing
  


• mathematical and computational biophysics
  


• modeling and simulation
  


• computational science applications (including environment and health)
  

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