Lenard Paulo Tamayo


Education

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP

Doctoral Researcher in Information Science and Technology (Social Computing Laboratory)
Research: Medical Natural Language Processing (MedNLP)
2024-Present

Ateneo de Manila University, PH

Master in Information Technology
Independent Project: "Towards an Intelligent System for Coffee plant Analysis (ISCA): Development of a Coffee Plant Management Information System for Plant and Disease Classification and Notification for Irrigation"
2020

Cavite State University, PH

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Thesis: “Online Image Manager for Public Information and Community Relations Office of Cavite State University – Main Campus”
2014

Experience

Full-time Instructor

Ateneo de Manila University, SOSE, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science

Discuss, prepare and provide course materials for Information Management, Blockchain and Health Informatics that includes MySQL/PostgreSQL and evaluate student performance based on quizzes, exams, and projects.

2021 - 2024

Researcher / Programmer

Ateneo Center for Computing Competency and Research (ACCCRe)

Developed a platform “Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler for Early Detection of Diseases (fassster.ehealth.ph/covid19)”.
Developed back-end scripts for data management and APIs for data visualization using Python and R programming languages, as well as project documentation.
Conducted training and assisted the Department of Health (DOH) and various Local Government Units (LGUs) in maintaining, navigating, and understanding the FASSSTER platform's features.

2024

Researcher / Programmer

Ateneo Blockchain Laboratory (ABC)

Developed a system implementing blockchain technology: “CREDERE: A Modular Blockchain Implementation for the Issuance, Sharing, and Verification of Digital Credentials”.

2024

Technical Manager and System Analyst (TKC Platform)

AI4GOV

Conducted business and system analysis, identified opportunities for optimization, provided workplan and weekly updates, and supported crafting of technical documentation or other requirements in the project scope.

2023

Part-time Instructor

Cavite State University

Prepared and provided course materials focused on computer programming covering Java, Python, and MySQL.

2014 - 2021

Intern

KDDI Philippines Corporation

Developed an online trouble ticketing management system and performed Quality Assurance (QA) testing.

2013

Publications

Assessing economic losses with COVID-19 integrated models: a retrospective analysis.

Teng, T. R. Y., de Lara-Tuprio, E. P., Sescon, J. T., Lubangco, C. K., Castillo, R. C. J. T., Tolentino, M. A. C., Estuar, M. R. J. E., Tamayo, L. P. V., & Pulmano, C. E. (2024) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, Article 1514.

2024

FASSSTER Data Pipeline and DevOps

Tamayo, L.P., Pulmano, C., Santos, R.J., Buhain, JA., Ico, R. (2023). In: Estuar, M.R.J., De Lara-Tuprio, E. (eds) COVID-19 Experience in the Philippines. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore.

2023

Management of COVID-19 Data for the FASSSTER Platform

Estuar, M. R. J. E., Tamayo, L. P. V., Buhain, J.-A., Chua, J. Y., Benito, D. J., Yao, L. F., & Sarmiento, R. F. (2023) In: Estuar, M.R.J., De Lara-Tuprio, E. (eds) COVID-19 Experience in the Philippines. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore.

2023

Disease Surveillance Metrics and Statistics

Pulmano, C., de Lara-Tuprio, E., Estuar, M.R.J., Tamayo, L.P.V. (2023) In: Estuar, M.R.J., De Lara-Tuprio, E. (eds) COVID-19 Experience in the Philippines. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore.

2023

CREDERE: A Modular Blockchain Implementation for the Issuance, Sharing, and Verification of Digital Credentials.

C.E. Pulmano, M. R. J. E. Estuar, M. M. De Leon, L. P. V. Tamayo, A. T. Magpantay, H. C. L. Tan, and N. A. S. Co. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 228–233.

2023

Towards the Development of a Blockchain-based Decentralized Digital Credential System using Hyperledger Fabric for Participatory Governance.

C. E. Pulmano, M. R. J. E. Estuar, Ph.D., M. M. De Leon, Ph.D., H. C. L. Tan, N. A. S. Co, L. P. V. Tamayo Procedia Computer Science 219, (2023), 99-106

2023

Economic losses from COVID-19 cases in the Philippines: a dynamic model of health and economic policy trade-offs.

de Lara-Tuprio, E.P., Estuar, M.R.J.E., Sescon, J.T., Lubangco,C.K., Castillo,R.C.J.T, Teng, T.R.Y., Tamayo, L.P.V., Macalalag, J.M.R., and Vedeja, G.M. Springer Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, 111 (2022)

2022

Development of an Explicit Agent-Based Simulation Toolkit for Opening of Schools: An Implementation of COMOKIT for Universities in the Philippines

Estuar, M. R. J., Abao, R., Aureus, J., Pangan, Z., Tamayo, L. P., de Lara-Tuprio, E., Teng, T. R., & Rodrigueza, R. (2022) Social Computing and Social Media: Applications in Education and Commerce (pp. 48–66). Springer International Publishing.

2022

Conferences

7th Annual Conference on Engineering and Information Technology

“Towards an Intelligent System for Coffee plant Analysis (ISCA): Development of a Coffee Plant Management Information System for Plant and Disease Classification and Notification for Irrigation” (Oral Presentation)
Osaka, Japan
2023

Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference, Kagawa 2022

“Participatory Design of a Syndromic Surveillance and Scenario-based Modeling Platform for COVID-19: The Adoption of the FASSSTER Platform” (Poster Presentation)
Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
2022

CENTERIS 2022 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems 2022

“Towards the Development of a Blockchain-based Decentralized Digital Credential System using Hyperledger Fabric for Participatory Governance” (Oral Presentation)
Lisbon, Portugal
2022

Awards

Certificate of Recognition from the office of the President of the Philippines

Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler for Early Detection of Diseases (FASSSTER)
2022

Special Citation for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Public Health and Wellness

(Economic losses from COVID-19 cases in the Philippines: a dynamic model of health and economic policy trade-offs) – Ateneo de Manila University (2023 University Scholarly Works Award)
2023

Research Projects

MedNLP-Chat

MedNLP-Chat, JP

Evaluated medical chatbot responses for appropriateness and risk from medical, legal, and ethical perspectives. Analyzed patient–chatbot interactions and classified potential risks (binary TRUE/FALSE). Additionally contributed to subjective public assessments (Japanese dataset) on fluency, helpfulness, and harmlessness using a 5-point scale.

FASSSTER COVID-19

FASSSTER COVID-19, PH

Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler For Early Detection of Diseases. It aims to create a hub for different data sources (Disease records, environmental parameters, etc.), providing a rich layout of integrated information that will facilitate in understanding the spread of diseases.

ISCA v1

ISCA v1, PH

Intelligent System for Coffee plant Analysis (ISCA). Developed a mobile application and website for coffee plant management system of National Coffee Research, Development and Extension Center (NCRDEC) that helps the client in coffee plant analysis. Uses a classification algorithm for predicting irrigation and question-based algorithm to determine the disease present in the coffee plant.


Trainings, Certification and Seminars

Epidemiological Modelling (WHO)

2024

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2023

BTA-BCSA: Blockchain Solution Architecture Training

2022

TESDA Computer Systems Servicing - NCII

2018

Big Data Short Course

Jennifer Widom of Stanford University, De La Salle University-Manila
2018