Baggy

Baggy is a physicist, computer programmer, published author, web creator and designer, husband to Kathy, and father to Aya.

He received his PhD in Biophysical Engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 2000 where he was working on the reconstruction of bifurcation structures of dynamical systems from time series data. After his graduate study, he became a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellow at the Department of Systems and Human Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University.

He is also a member of the Association of Filipino Scholars in Tsukuba (FAST), where he served as President of the association for FY 2005-2006.

Baggy is currently affiliated with the Grid Technology Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. His current research interests include 1) real-time functional MRI, 2) application of grid computing to the remote analysis of fMRI data sets, and 3) bifurcation diagram reconstruction from time series data. He is also into wavelets, nonlinear time series analysis, and chaos, among others.

Favorite quote: "Life is easy when you know all the answers."

"In man's search for knowledge,
he discovers his weaknesses
and rediscovers his strength
in HIM."