Teddy Yap, Jr.
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Email:  tyap [at] cs {dot} ucr {dot} edu


Education
2004 - 2009 (Expected) University of California, Riverside, California, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
September 1998 - August 2001 De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines
Master of Science in Computer Science.  With High Distinction.
June 1994 - September 1998 De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Specialization in Software Technology.  Cum Laude.

Work Experience

I'm currently teaching CS008 for Summer 2006 Session I. Click here to visit the CS008 webpage.

September 2004 - Present Research Assistant, Riverside Lab for Artificial Intelligence Research
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
September 2004 - Present Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Riverside, California, USA
September 1998 - September 2004 Faculty Member, Software Technology Department, College of Computer Studies
De La Salle University - Professional Schools, Inc., Philippines
January 2004 - September 2004 Instructor, CISCO Regional Academy, College of Computer Studies
De La Salle University - Professional Schools, Inc., Philippines
December 2001 - September 2002 Product Engineer, Cavite Microprocessor Organization
Intel Technology Philippines, Inc.
February 2000 - June 2001 Research Assistant, Program for Research Into Intelligent Systems
The National University of Singapore
April 1997 - May 1997 Summer Trainee, Branch Administration Department
The Philippine-American Life Insurance Company

Research Publications

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P., Yap, Teddy Jr. N., Tan, Jonathan, Chua, Tat Seng "Evaluating Keyword Selection Method for WEBSOM Text Archives", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 2004.

Yap, Teddy Jr. N. and Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. "Generalized Associative Memory Models:  Their Memory Capacities and Potential Applications", Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2004.

Yap, Teddy Jr. N. "Automatic Text Archiving and Retrieval Systems Using the Self-Organizing Kohonen Map", Natural Language Processing Research Symposium, College of Computer Studies, De La Salle Univeristy – Professional Schools, Inc., Manila, Philippines, January 28 – 29, 2004.

Yap, Teddy Jr. N. and Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. "Generalized Associative Memory Models for Data Fusion", International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2003), Protland, Oregon, USA, July 20 – 24, 2003.

Yap, Teddy Jr. N. and Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. "Generalized Associative Memory Models:  Their Memory Capacities and Potential Applications", The First Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management International Conference (HNICEM 2003), Manila, Philippines, March 29 – 31, 2003.

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P., Yap, Teddy Jr. N., and Chua, Tat Seng "Comparing Keyword Extraction Techniques for WEBSOM Text Archives", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2002.

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. and Yap, Teddy Jr. N. "Extracting Meaningful Labels for WEBSOM-Based Text Archives", 10th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 6 – 8, 2001.

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. and Yap, Teddy Jr. N. "Comparing Keyword Extraction Techniques for WEBSOM Text Archives", 13th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2001), Dallas, Texas, USA, November 7 – 9, 2001.

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P. and Yap, Teddy Jr. N. "SOM-based Methodology for Building Large Text Archives", 7th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2001), Hong Kong, April 18 – 20, 2001.

Azcarraga, Arnulfo P., Gopez, Alfred Kenneth, and Yap, Teddy Jr. N. "Word Streams for Representing Context in Word Maps", 7th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2000), Taejon, Korea, November 14 – 18, 2000.