The UP Parser

Phillip Kimpo Jr. [http://ccrux.corsarius.net]

After eight years, a CS student has again won the prestigious BPI-DOST Science award.

Geomar Lubaton, CS Representative and Managing Editor of The UP Parser, is one of the three awardees from UP Diliman, the other two being Maydeline Que of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Christian Danve Castroverde of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

Lubaton, a graduating student and member of UP’s fencing varsity, was selected based on three criteria: academic excellence, leadership/extra-curricular, and the research project. The project of Lubaton’s thesis group is entitled “iSay: An Online Essay Evaluator�.

The winners of the award, sponsored by the Bank of the Philippine Islands and the Department of Science and Technology, were announced November last year.

Around October, each department was asked to nominate at most three students for the award. Along with Lubaton, graduating students Carlos Miguel Lasa and Maybelle Sibayan were the Department of Computer Science’s nominees.

The awarding and presentation of the awardees will be held on March 10, with the College of Engineering Theatre as the tentative venue.