Sex: Male

Education:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Master Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995
  • Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, achelor of  Science in Physics, 1992
  • Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Bachelor Of Science in Computer Engineering (magna cum laude), 1993

Field of Specialization:

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Science, Distance Education

Researches:

Sarmenta, L.F., (2002) Sabotage tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems Cluster Computing and the Grid Volume 18, No. 4

Sarmenta, L.F., (1999) An adaptive, fault tolerant implementation of BSP for Java based volunteer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1586

Sarmenta, L.F., Hirano, S., Ward, S., (1999) Bayanihan:Building and studying volunteer computing systems using java Metacomputing Volume 15(5-6)

Sarmenta, L.F., Hirano, S., Ward, S., (1998) Towards Bayanihan:Building an extensible framework for volunteer computing using java Concurrency: Practice and Experience Volume 10, No. 11-13

Sarmenta, L.F., (1998 Mr 3-4) Bayanihan: Web-based volunteer computing using java Notes in Computer Science Volume 1368

Sarmenta, L., Chua, S., et.al., (2003) Bayanihan Computing.NET:A Simple framework for grid computing with web services School of Science and Engineering Volume 2

Awards:

  • Winner of NAST-Dupont Talent Search for Young Scientists, National Academy Science and Technology-Dupont, 2003
  • Outstanding Young Scientist (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), National Academy Science and Technology-Department Of Science and Technology, 2005
  • Worldwide 1st Place Winner in the Microsoft.NET Best Awards 2001 XML Web Services Contest, , 2002 August
  • Best paper Finalist: Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms for Volunteer Computing Systems, CCGrid 2001, 2001 May
  • Scholarship Grant, Depertment Of  Science andTechnology(ESEP), 1993 August
  • Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines Finalist (Top 30), , July 1993
  • Science Award, Bank of the Philippine Island, 1993 March
  • Department Award, Computer Engineering and Physics, Ateneo de Manila University, 1992-1993