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Awards & certifications

Credentials

The complete record — competition placements, grants, academic honours and formal certifications.

Academic honours

Every semester of the Computer Science degree.

3.79

Average QPI

  • 1st Year · 1st Sem

    President's List

  • 1st Year · 2nd Sem

    President's List

  • 2nd Year · 1st Sem

    Dean's List

  • 2nd Year · 2nd Sem

    President's List

  • 3rd Year · 1st Sem

    President's List

  • 3rd Year · 2nd Sem

    President's List

Awards

Recognitions and grants.

4 total

November 2025

Philippine Startup Challenge 10 — 3rd Runner Up

ICT Industry Development Bureau, DICT

Clark, Pampanga

  • Startup
  • National

August 2025

AIdeas for Impact — Champion

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Lotus Blu Hotel, Naga City

  • AI
  • IoT
  • Regional

August 2025

Idea2Startup+ — 1st Runner Up

Naga City Government / Naga Digital Innovation Hub

Jessie M. Robredo Amphitheatre, Naga City

  • Startup
  • Grant

September 2024

Hack4Gov CTF — Individual Top Scorer

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Daraga, Albay

  • Cybersecurity
  • CTF

Competitions

Placements in CTFs, pitches and contests.

4 total

August 2025

TrendMicro National CTF — 15th of 193 Teams

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Online

  • Cybersecurity
  • CTF
  • National

September 2024

Hack4Gov CTF 2024 — 1st Runner Up

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Daraga, Albay

  • Cybersecurity
  • CTF

September 2023

Hack4Gov CTF 2023 — 2nd Runner Up

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Daraga, Albay

  • Cybersecurity
  • CTF

October 2022

Ateneo Computer Programming Competition — 4th Place

Ateneo de Naga University

Ateneo de Naga University, Naga City

  • Competitive Programming

Certifications

Formal training and qualifications.

9 total

August 2025

Japanese Language Proficiency Test N4

The Philippines-Japan Friendship Foundation

  • Language

March 2025

LLM Engineering: Master AI, Large Language Models & Agents

Udemy

  • AI
  • Agents

March 2025

PyTorch for Deep Learning Bootcamp

Udemy

  • Deep Learning

August 2024

Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5

The Philippines-Japan Friendship Foundation

  • Language

July 2024

Ateneo Game Developer Bootcamp 2024

Ateneo de Naga — Department of Digital Illustrations and Arts

  • Game Dev

March 2024

Google Cybersecurity Certificate

Coursera · Google

  • Cybersecurity

January 2024

Mathematical Foundation of Machine Learning

Udemy

  • Machine Learning

July 2023

Ateneo Game Developer Bootcamp 2023

Ateneo de Naga — Department of Digital Illustrations and Arts

  • Game Dev

February 2023

Smartbooks and Power BI with Advanced Analytics

FIT Academy

  • Analytics

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