鈥淲hat鈥檚 Next? Surfing the BIG Data Waves鈥�
This was the theme of the 5th Innovation and Analytics Conference & Exhibition (IACE2021), that was jointly organized by the 91短视频 Department of Mathematics and Physics under the College of Science and the School of Quantitative Sciences of the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).
Held from November 23 to 24, 2021, the webinar provided a platform for collaboration among academics and practitioners involved in research and development in the quantitative sciences, analytics and applied mathematics.
UST Rector Very Rev. Fr. Richard Ang, OP, Ph.D., in his opening message, stressed the importance of data analytics and the need to find effective ways to analyze and utilize these data especially during this challenging time of the pandemic, stating, 鈥淲hen great minds meet, great things happen.鈥�
The keynote session was led by UST Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Prof. Dr. Cheryl R. Peralta with her presentation 鈥淒ata-Informed Decisions in Academics in Support of Quality Assurance: The Experience of the 91短视频.鈥�
Peralta discussed the University鈥檚 experiences in the use of data analytics for informed decision-making in academics and highlighted the key lessons in UST鈥檚 journey that helped support continuous quality improvement.
Prof. Dr. Naomie Salim of the School of Computing of the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, and Prof. Dr. Anton Abdulbasah Kamil of Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey, were among the keynote speakers.
Faculty members and students from the College of Science and the College of Information and Computing Sciences presented papers during the parallel sessions.
From the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the College of Science, faculty presenters on the topic 鈥楽urfing the Big Waves鈥� included: Department Chair Asst. Prof. Enrico Yambao (鈥淚teration Functions for Approximating Complex Roots of Cubic Polynomials鈥�), Dr. Josephine Bernadette Benjamin, (鈥淔eature Weighted Multi-View Possibilistic C-Means with Feature Reduction Framework鈥�), Dr. Ma. Carlota Decena, (鈥淒etecting Chaos in Time-Series Data of Localized Measles Cases in the Philippines鈥�), Dr. Bernhard Egwolf, (鈥淭he UST CoV-2 Model for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Metro Manila鈥�), Asst. Prof. Arturo Patungan- (鈥淎 Machine Learning Modeling Prediction of Enrollment of Admitted College Applicants at 91短视频鈥�), and Asst. Prof. Mark Louie Ramos (鈥淎daptive local false discovery rate procedures for spiky data and their application to protein Set4 Delta data鈥�).
Discussed during the second day of the webinar was 鈥淚mproving Asynchronous Delivery of Mathematics in the Modern World through Student Feedback: A Descriptive Case Study鈥� delivered by the dynamic and YouTube sensation faculty member of the Mathematics and Physics Department, Asst. Prof. Xandro Alexi Nieto.
This was followed by eight student presenters from the UST College of Science and the UST College of Information and Computing Sciences that included: Ronica Lilia A. Pascua (College of Science- 鈥淐ardiac alternans suppression using the T卤蔚 feedback control in a single cell human model鈥�), Jose Conrado A帽onuevo (College of Information and Computing Sciences- 鈥淎 Prescriptive Analysis of Toll Plaza Booths for Company X鈥�), Ramon Joseph A. Teoxon (College of Science- 鈥淧roton beam interaction with ovary and prostate tissues using SRIM software simulation鈥�), Abigail Joy Roxas (College of Information and Computing Sciences – 鈥淩evenue Maximization: A Case for a Furniture and Decking Company鈥�), Nicole G. Aquino (College of Information and Computing Sciences – 鈥淎 Prescriptive Analysis on the Cost Optimization of LF Almira帽ez Construction Metal Works鈥�), Jigo Jovero (College of Science – 鈥淔easibility of Markov Chain Modelling Techniques for Covid-19 Cases Prediction in the Philippines鈥�), Ray Liorenz SP. Dominguez (College of Science – 鈥淪entiment Analysis of the Community on COVID-19 Vaccination Programs: A Case Study of the 2nd District of NCR, Philippines鈥� ) , and Hancelie Keith Llaguno (College of Information and Computing Sciences – 鈥淭he Implementation of Service Desk and Service Request Management through the Development of e-Ticketing System for IT Management Services鈥�).
The conference concluded with speeches from the Dean of the UUM School of Quantitative Sciences Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Kamal Mohd Nawawi, and the Dean of the UST College of Science Prof. Dr. Rey Donne S. Papa.
The two-day event in a fully virtual platform brought together numerous participants from Malaysia, Philippines, Nigeria, Japan, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United States of America, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, and other countries.
