Francis Paraan | Alumni Advisees

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

MS Physics

  1. Mykhal Mangada (Midyear 2021)

    Image classification with a tensor network-based machine learning algorithm

  2. Apolinario Miguel Tan (Midyear 2021)

    Quantum Fisher information and entanglement in an XY dimer

  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 (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 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

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

BS Applied Physics (Instrumentation)

  1. Hans Gamido (2nd Sem 2023-2024)

    Localizing regional indicators of 2-m surface temperature dynamics using explainable artificial intelligence

  2. Alyana Daquioag (2nd Sem 2022-2023)

    Document classification by locality-sensitive hashing

  3. Mary June Ricaña (2nd Sem 2022-2023)

    Universal Language Model Fine Tuning (ULMFiT) for Filipino language text classification

  4. Tristan de Guzman (2nd Sem 2020-2021)

    Classifying physics articles by their abstracts with recurrent neural networks

  5. Raphael Dimacali (2nd Sem 2020-2021)

    Generating images of numbers from text with a generative adversarial network

  6. Maria Alena Edora (2nd Sem 2020-2021)

    Quantifying the performance of a sparse autoencoder in detecting network anomalies

  7. Aaron Paul Ramos (2nd Sem 2020-2021)

    Schmidt gap in the 1D Ising model with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction

  8. Marc Jerrone Castro (2nd Sem 2019-2020)

    Identifying potential therapeutic protein targets using graph neural networks

  9. Mary Chris Go (2nd Sem 2019-2020)

    Detection of colorectal polyps using YOLOv3

  10. Jacob Gomez (2nd Sem 2019-2020)

    Classification and characterization of the resulting fragments of two colliding dust clusters

  11. Kryzz Joshua de Leon (2nd Sem 2018-2019)

    TensorFlow implementation of singular value decomposition in the density matrix renormalization group

  12. Vidal Wyatt Lopez (2nd Sem 2018-2019)

    Effects of image preprocessing on the supervised classification of radiographs

  13. Matthew Medrano (2nd Sem 2018-2019)

    Computational fluid dynamics analysis of lift and drag on the Teardrop 2.0 and Towpedo submersible

  14. Cleofe Ayang-ang (2nd Sem 2017-2018)

    Quantum critical behavior in a long-range Kitaev chain model

  15. Robertson Esperanza (2nd Sem 2016-2017)

    Ground state correlations and entanglement in an extended Hubbard model with Ising-like interaction

  16. Zed Harold Fernandez (2nd Sem 2016-2017)

    Molecular dynamics simulation of glass formation in a copper-silver system

  17. Apolinario Miguel Tan (2nd Sem 2016-2017)

    Computational fluid dynamics study of gas particle movement inside various chemical vapor deposition chamber geometries

  18. Ryan Carlos Tabernilla (1st Sem 2016-2017)

    Parallelized calculation of bond percolation threshold of a 2D Kagome lattice using Monte Carlo methods

  19. John Kevin Sanchez (1st Sem 2015-2016)

    Parallel simulations of Wolff Monte Carlo algorithm in a 2D Ising model on a kagome lattice

  20. Robert Tacbad (1st Sem 2015-2016)

    Parallel calculation of the largest Lyapunov exponent from time series

  21. Xavier Puspus (2nd Sem 2014-2015)

    Quantum entanglement in a spin-partitioned BCS ground state

BS Physics

  1. Ron Michael Acda (2nd Sem 2023-2024)

    Robustness of cyanobacterial photosystem I chlorophyll network against targeted chlorophyll removals

  2. Ajay Lagrimas (1st Sem 2023-2024)

    Spatial association between nighttime lights and COVID-19 incidence in the Philippines

  3. Joshua Deiondre Malalad (2nd Sem 2022-2023)

    Forecasting next day wildfires through image segmentation using convolutional neural networks

  4. Kobe Brian Sacres (1st Sem 2022-2023)

    Interpreting convolutional neural network classifications of weather phenomena using integrated gradients

  5. Mignon Frances Dumanjog (2nd Sem 2019-2020)

    Computational fluid dynamics analysis of melting ice blocks

  6. Ian Felismino (1st Sem 2018-2019)

    Exploration of Python GPU implementation for DMRG

  7. Binladin Balt (2nd Sem 2017-2018)

    Correlation functions of an XY spin chain in a random transverse field

  8. Lean Peria (2nd Sem 2017-2018)

    Piezomagnetic and electronic properties of Mn₃GaN and Mn₃SnN calculated using density functional theory

  9. Nicholas Colina (2nd Sem 2016-2017)

    Eigenspectra preservation and orthogonal weight matrix initialization in deep neural network models

  10. Rafael dela Rosa (2nd Sem 2015-2016)

    Entanglement and coherence in polaron ansätze for a spin-boson model

  11. Joshua Gregor Dizon (2nd Sem 2015-2016)

    Developing and benchmarking a high-performance computing cluster for computational physics

  12. Salvador Laurente, Jr. (2nd Sem 2015-2016)

    Average work done during a quench of the ground state of the quantum Ising model

  13. King Karl Seroje (2nd Sem 2014-2015)

    Mode entanglement in bosonic systems: coherent states, squeezed states, displaced squeezed states, and squeezed coherent states