Christian M. Alis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Academic Program Director
Master of Science in Data Science Part-Time
Senior Data Scientist, ACCeSs@AIM
EXPERTISE
Data Science and Engineering, Data Mining of Socio-Technical Systems, Big Data Analytics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nowcasting and Forecasting, Online Clandestine Trade, Computational Propaganda and Misinformation, Applied Machine Learning
Christian M. Alis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Academic Program Director
Master of Science in Data Science Part-Time
Senior Data Scientist, ACCeSs@AIM
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
- PhD in Physics, University of the Philippines
- MS in Physics, University of the Philippines
- BS in Applied Physics (magna cum laude), University of the Philippines
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Senior Data Engineer, Thinking Machines Data Science
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University College London
- Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman
- Instructor, University of the Philippines Diliman
AFFILIATIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS
- DOST ASTHRDP Graduate Scholar
- Recipient, Ramon Magsaysay Award for Young Scientists/Technologists 2007
- Magna cum laude, BS Applied Physics
- Best in Thesis, BS Applied Physics
- DOST-SEI RA7687 Undergraduate Scholar
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
- Dailisan, D., Liponhay, M., Alis, C. M., & Monterola, C. P. (2022). Amenity counts significantly improve water consumption predictions. PLoS ONE, 17(3), e0265771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265771.
- Alis, C. M., Legara, E. F., & Monterola, C. P. (2021). Generalized radiation model for human migration. Nature Scientific Reports, 11, 22707. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02109-1.
- Barchiesi, D., Moat, H. S., Alis, C. M., Bishop, S., & Preis, T. (2015). Quantifying international travel flows using Flickr. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0128470. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128470.
- Alis, C. M., Lim, M. T., Moat, H. S., Barchiesi D., Preis, T., & Bishop, S. R. (2015). Quantifying regional differences in the length of Twitter messages. PLoS ONE,10(4), e0122278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122278.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
- Alis, C. M., Boehm, J., & Liu, K. (2016). Parallel processing of big point clouds using Z-order-based partitioning. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B2, pp. 71–77. Prague, Czech Republic. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B2-71-2016.
- Boehm, J., Liu, K., &Alis, C. M. (2016). Sideloading – Ingestion of large point clouds into the Apache Spark big data engine. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B2, pp. 343–348. Prague, Czech Republic. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B2-343-2016.
- Liu, K., Boehm, J., &Alis, C. M. (2016). Change detection of mobile lidar data using cloud computing. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B3, pp. 309–313. Prague, Czech Republic. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B3-309-2016.
- Nasayao, J. T., Alis, C. M., & Lim, M. T. (2015). Patterns in the word length distribution of synonymous words in the English language. Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 33, SPP-2015-PA-36 (2015).
- Alis, C. M., Letchford, A., Moat, H. S., & Preis, T. (2015). Estimating tourism statistics with Wikipedia page views. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci ’15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 33, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/2786451.2786925.
