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Francis Paraan | Alumni

55 Alumni Mentored

2 PhD alumni

PhD Physics

  1. Gene Itable (1st Sem 2022-2023)
    Entanglement in non-unitary quantum walks on the line

PhD Materials Science and Engineering

  1. Alexandra Santos-Putungan (2nd Sem 2018-2019)
    Adsorption of carbon dioxide on boron clusters: A density functional theory study

14 MS alumni

MS Physics

  1. Apolinario Miguel Tan (Midyear 2021)
    Quantum Fisher information and entanglement in an XY dimer
  2. Mykhal Mangada (Midyear 2021)
    Image classification with a tensor network-based machine learning algorithm
  3. Robertson Esperanza (1st Sem 2020-2021)
    One-dimensional Hubbard chain with Ising-like nearest-neighbor interaction: Clarifying the ground state and its entanglement content
  4. Cleofe Ayang-ang (2nd Sem 2019-2020)
    Critical Schmidt gap in a variable-range Kitaev chain
  5. Raymart Canoy (2nd Sem 2017-2018)
    Work statistics in a quenched Kitaev chain with long-range interactions
  6. Oliver Generalao (Midyear 2017)
    The acceleration of PWscf package in Quantum ESPRESSO using commodity GPUs
  7. Jan Philippe Sambo (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Dynamical quantum phase transitions in the ground-state quenched XY model
  8. Jan Fronimarc Viloria (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Determination of the mechanical properties of copper-silver alloy using molecular dynamics simulations
  9. Jade Dianne Mendoza-Manzano (1st Sem 2016-2017)
    Entanglement and fluctuations in the Majumdar-Ghosh model using matrix product states representation
  10. Aura Mae Villaruel (1st Sem 2015-2016)
    Polarization fluctuation as an entanglement measure for N-level systems
  11. Rona Barbarona (2nd Sem 2014-2015)
    Spin-orbit entanglement entropy in a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba interactions
  12. Francis Bayocboc, Jr. (2nd Sem 2014-2015)
    Work fluctuation and irreversible entropy in a quenched XY Heisenberg magnet

MS Physics (Non-thesis)

  1. Rafael dela Rosa (1st Sem 2019-2020)

MS Materials Science and Engineering

  1. Meliton Chiong III (1st Sem 2017-2018)
    Density functional theory study of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide by cobalt salen

43 BS alumni

BS Physics

  1. Ryoji Medina (2nd Sem 2025-2026)
    Electronic structure of Cr-substituted alumina at different Hubbard U parameters using density functional theory calculation
  2. Johana Paula Galan (1st Sem 2025-2026)
    Density functional theory analysis of optoelectronic properties of alpha-alumina with band gap corrections from hybrid functional PBE0
  3. Mara Reyes (2nd Sem 2024-2025)
    Percolation-based algorithm for defect detection in images of steel surfaces
  4. Sandre Eugenio (2nd Sem 2024-2025)
    Toxic algal bloom risk classifier using a stacked model approach with random forest and logistic regression
  5. Ron Michael Acda (2nd Sem 2023-2024)
    Robustness of cyanobacterial photosystem I chlorophyll network against targeted chlorophyll removals
  6. Ajay Lagrimas (1st Sem 2023-2024)
    Spatial association between nighttime lights and COVID-19 incidence in the Philippines
  7. Joshua Deiondre Malalad (2nd Sem 2022-2023)
    Forecasting next day wildfires through image segmentation using convolutional neural networks
  8. Kobe Brian Sacres (1st Sem 2022-2023)
    Interpreting convolutional neural network classifications of weather phenomena using integrated gradients
  9. Mignon Frances Dumanjog (2nd Sem 2019-2020)
    Computational fluid dynamics analysis of melting ice blocks
  10. Ian Felismino (1st Sem 2018-2019)
    Exploration of Python GPU implementation for DMRG
  11. Lean Peria (2nd Sem 2017-2018)
    Piezomagnetic and electronic properties of Mn₃GaN and Mn₃SnN calculated using density functional theory
  12. Binladin Balt (2nd Sem 2017-2018)
    Correlation functions of an XY spin chain in a random transverse field
  13. Nicholas Colina (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Eigenspectra preservation and orthogonal weight matrix initialization in deep neural network models
  14. Salvador Laurente, Jr. (2nd Sem 2015-2016)
    Average work done during a quench of the ground state of the quantum Ising model
  15. Rafael dela Rosa (2nd Sem 2015-2016)
    Entanglement and coherence in polaron ansätze for a spin-boson model
  16. Joshua Gregor Dizon (2nd Sem 2015-2016)
    Developing and benchmarking a high-performance computing cluster for computational physics
  17. King Karl Seroje (2nd Sem 2014-2015)
    Mode entanglement in bosonic systems: coherent states, squeezed states, displaced squeezed states, and squeezed coherent states

BS Applied Physics (Instrumentation)

  1. Jan Calamiong (2nd Sem 2025-2026)
    Quantum circuit calculation of magnetization in the XY model
  2. Valerie Abedes (2nd Sem 2024-2025)
    Density functional theory calculation and electron charge density comparison of pristine and chromium-doped α-Al₂O₃
  3. Hans Gamido (2nd Sem 2023-2024)
    Localizing regional indicators of 2-m surface temperature dynamics using explainable artificial intelligence
  4. MJ Ricaña (2nd Sem 2022-2023)
    Universal Language Model Fine Tuning (ULMFiT) for Filipino language text classification
  5. Alyana Daquioag (2nd Sem 2022-2023)
    Document classification by locality-sensitive hashing
  6. Tristan de Guzman (1st Sem 2021-2022)
    Classifying physics articles by their abstracts with recurrent neural networks
  7. Aaron Paul Ramos (2nd Sem 2020-2021)
    Schmidt gap in the 1D Ising model with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction
  8. Raphael Dimacali (2nd Sem 2020-2021)
    Generating images of numbers from text with a generative adversarial network
  9. Maria Alena Edora (2nd Sem 2020-2021)
    Quantifying the performance of a sparse autoencoder in detecting network anomalies
  10. Mary Chris Go (2nd Sem 2019-2020)
    Detection of colorectal polyps using YOLOv3
  11. Jacob Gomez (2nd Sem 2019-2020)
    Classification and characterization of the resulting fragments of two colliding dust clusters
  12. Marc Jerrone Castro (2nd Sem 2019-2020)
    Identifying potential therapeutic protein targets using graph neural networks
  13. Matthew Medrano (2nd Sem 2018-2019)
    Computational fluid dynamics analysis of lift and drag on the Teardrop 2.0 and Towpedo submersible
  14. Vidal Wyatt Lopez (2nd Sem 2018-2019)
    Effects of image preprocessing on the supervised classification of radiographs
  15. Kryzz Joshua de Leon (2nd Sem 2018-2019)
    TensorFlow implementation of singular value decomposition in the density matrix renormalization group
  16. Cleofe Ayang-ang (2nd Sem 2017-2018)
    Quantum critical behavior in a long-range Kitaev chain model
  17. Apolinario Miguel Tan (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Computational fluid dynamics study of gas particle movement inside various chemical vapor deposition chamber geometries
  18. Robertson Esperanza (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Ground state correlations and entanglement in an extended Hubbard model with Ising-like interaction
  19. Zed Harold Fernandez (2nd Sem 2016-2017)
    Molecular dynamics simulation of glass formation in a copper-silver system
  20. Ryan Carlos Tabernilla (1st Sem 2016-2017)
    Parallelized calculation of bond percolation threshold of a 2D Kagome lattice using Monte Carlo methods
  21. Robert Tacbad (1st Sem 2015-2016)
    Parallel calculation of the largest Lyapunov exponent from time series
  22. John Kevin Sanchez (1st Sem 2015-2016)
    Parallel simulations of Wolff Monte Carlo algorithm in a 2D Ising model on a kagome lattice
  23. Xavier Puspus (2nd Sem 2014-2015)
    Quantum entanglement in a spin-partitioned BCS ground state

BS Applied Physics (Materials)

  1. Mark Brongcano (1st Sem 2023-2024)
    Density functional theory study of electronic and optical properties of alpha-alumina in the generalized gradient approximation
  2. Mario Antonio Ongkiko (2nd Sem 2018-2019)
    Density functional theory study of small molecule adsorption on graphene
  3. Paul Daniel Ang (2nd Sem 2017-2018)
    Structural, electronic, elastic, and piezoelectric properties of AlN from density functional theory
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