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Christine F. Peña

Peña, Christine F.

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cfpena@usc.edu.ph

Degrees

B.S. Mathematics, University of San Carlos, 1984
Master in Mathematics, University of San Carlos, 2006

Research Interests:

C programming, Java, data structures and algorithms, discrete mathematics, linear algebra

List of publications:

  1. Abay-Abay, C.K.C.; Nakila, T.J.E.; Peña, C.F.. Mental Health State Classification Model A Hybrid Approach Using VADER, BERT, BiLSTM, and CRF. Iccde 2026 2026 12th International Conference on Computing and Data Engineering. 2026, https://doi.org/10.1145/3801839.3801865.
  2. Pantino, P.I.R.; Singh, F.A.L.; Pena, C.F.. Neuro-RAGX: An Interpretable Graphical Decoding Framework for Functional Connectivity Using Multi-View Graph Attention Networks and Retrieval-Augmented Generation. 2026 International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Aaiml 2026. 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/AAIML67890.2026.11498161.
  3. Buenavista, E.I.Y.; Calaycay, M.C.D.; Peña, C.F.. WEREPIRE: A Hybrid Optimizer for University Course Timetabling Using Grey Wolf Optimizer and Bat Algorithm. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Computer Data Sciences and Applications Acdsa 2026. 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACDSA67686.2026.11467786.
  4. Cortes, E.M.M.; Jones, L.M.A.; Pena, C.F.. RacistDetect: A Racism Prediction Ensemble Model using DistilBERT and Logistic Regression. Proceedings Icsintesa 2025 2025 5th International Conference of Science and Information Technology in Smart Administration. 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSINTESA68165.2025.11413709.
  5. Cordova, C.J.A.; Villaceran, C.V.A.; Peña, C.F.. Predicting League of Legends Match Outcomes Through Machine Learning Models Using Past Match Player Performance. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Computing Icoco 2024. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOCO62848.2024.10928259.
  6. Capao, B.M.B.; Guido, C.A.; Peña, C.F.. Performance Evaluation of Heterogeneous Ensemble Methods for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Detection. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73324-6_11.
  7. Albino, A.J.; Curativo, J.E.; Pena, C.F.. Spatio-Temporal Crime Prediction Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition and CNN-LSTM. Comnetsat 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communication Networks and Satellite. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNETSAT63286.2024.10862638.
  8. Raz, J.; Abayon, J.V.; Peña, C.. A performance evaluation of convolutional and recurrent neural network on Philippine typhoon data. Aip Conference Proceedings. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0117245.
  9. Baguio, J.D.S.; Lu, B.A.; Pena, C.F.. Text Classification of Climate Change Tweets using Artificial Neural Networks, FastText Word Embeddings, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation. 2023 International Conference in Advances in Power Signal and Information Technology Apsit 2023. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/APSIT58554.2023.10201782.
  10. Leano, J.M.; Stewart, C.A.C.; Pena, C.F.. Multilabel Emotion Recognition Through Sequence Labeling and Sentence Classification Models using Textual Data. Proceeding Comnetsat 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communication Networks and Satellite. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/COMNETSAT59769.2023.10420660.
  11. Empinado, C.D.O.; Jumalon, R.C.A.; Peña, C.F.. Cebuano-English Code-Switching Speech Detection Using Support Vector Machine. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50151-7_13.
  12. Ignacio, B.S.E.; Villaflor, L.M.B.; Chiong, V.A.; Pena, C.F.. A Peformance Evaluation of YOLOv3 and CIE Lab Color Space Pixel Color Analysis in Fire Detection. Proceedings 2022 2nd International Conference in Information and Computing Research Icore 2022. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/iCORE58172.2022.00067.
  13. Francisco, I.R.; Ferolin, M.B.J.; Pena, C.F.; Ferolin, R.J.. Thy-Sys: A Preliminary Thyroid Wellness Assessment Through Machine Learning Using Pathological Factors. Proceedings 2021 1st International Conference in Information and Computing Research Icore 2021. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/iCORE54267.2021.00027.
  14. Flores, A.C.; Icoy, R.I.; Pena, C.F.; Gorro, K.D.. An evaluation of SVM and naive bayes with SMOTE on sentiment analysis data set. Iceast 2018 4th International Conference on Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology Exploring Innovative Solutions for Smart Society. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEAST.2018.8434401.
  15. Velasco, J.J.; Tan, D.H.; Peña, C.; Gorro, K.. Social media platforms: Alternative source of fire data in cebu city using SVM and correlation analysis. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1145/3176653.3176694.

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