Wayne Dayata

Developer Intern

September 2023 - December 2023

Full Scale (Gigabook Inc.), Cebu City

• Co-developed an in-house registration system project
• Key features: User authentication, account management, event creation, display, and visibility toggling, employee invitation and pre-registration, time logging via manual entry and QR codes, attendance report, raffle generation and winners logging, email announcements, audit trail, and event feedback
• Roles: Full stack development, database design, API design
• Technology stack: Next.JS, Next UI, C#, ASP.NET Web API, and MSSQL.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

August 2020 - June 2024

University of San Carlos, Cebu City

Magna Cum Laude (GPA: 1.23)

Courses in algorithms, data structures, programming languages, computer networking, operating systems, information management, software development principles, discrete mathematics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and intelligent systems.

Lead Facilitator and Speaker, Power BI Workshop Series

May 2024 - June 2024

Developer Connect (DEVCON) Cebu

• Introduced the basics and intermediate features of Power BI Desktop to a professional audience of 30 attendees with introductory data analytics background in a workshop series spanning three sessions.
• Covered the essential steps of the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process including data cleaning, transformation, and aggregation, column pivoting, calculated measures and columns, data modelling and normalization, and reports creation through appropriate visualizations including tables, charts, deomposition trees, and key influencers.

President, Computer and Information Sciences Council

August 2022 - July 2023

University of San Carlos, Cebu City

• Organize activities and workshops to enhance the students' well-being and also provide out-of-classroom learning opportunities on technology.
• Delegate tasks to the 32 officers of the council (core team and program ambassadors) and provide counsel on all aspects of the projects.
• Supervise the projects of the council in order to ensure quality and effectiveness of all activities to the student body.
• Received the Outstanding Leader Award during the 37th USC Excellence Awards (May 2023)

Carolinian Chatbot: End-to-End Question-Answer Pipeline on the University of San Carlos Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Via Retrieval Augmented Generation

July 2024

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks, and Satellite (ComNetSat) 2024, Lombok, Indonesia (Accepted)

• Technology stack: Python, LangChain, HuggingFace, Streamlit
• A web application that automatically responds to common concerns and inquiries such as academic matters, directory of offices, and career guidance deployed via Streamlit cloud for access to 1000+ university students and staff.
• Reduced overall school-related inquiries in the department by 70% and face to face visits in the office by 50%, effectively reducing the workload of the personnel.

Automated Blast Cell Detection for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Using a Stacking Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks

November 2023

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks, and Satellite (ComNetSat) 2023, Malang, Indonesia (Published)

Best Paper (Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Track)

• Technology stack: Python, Tensorflow, Keras, Tkinter (GUI)
• Employed data augmentation, transfer learning, and threshold optimization.
• Model garnered accuracy, precision, and weighted F1-scores of over 95% when tested on 4,522 cells from 40 subjects in the dataset, making it a very reliable tool to support clinical decisions on the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia diagnosis of patients.

Awardee, The Outstanding Graduate - 38th USC Excellence Awards

May 2024

A formal recognition given to graduating USC students who showed exemplary academic (Scientia) and leadership (Virtus) performance as well as active volunteerism in off-campus community service activities (Devotio).

2nd Place, Project SPARTA Open Data Challenge for Cauayan City

November 2022

Identified correlating measures with direct impact to the economic development and wellbeing of the Barangays (local towns) in Cauayan City, and also identified underperforming Barangays through clustering.

Champion, CESAFI Computer Quiz Bowl College Division

May 2023

Emerged first place out of ten colleges across Cebu in both the written component (assessment on technology concepts and best practices covering system design and development, data structures and algorithms, data science and artificial intelligence, and other IT Trends) and practical component (competitive programming).