The University Registrar
Dr. Ma. Nerissa Masangkay Abara is an Associate Professor at the UP Diliman Institute of Mathematics, where she earned her BS, MS, and PhD in Mathematics. Her research focuses on Matrix Analysis and Combinatorial Matrix Theory. She teaches courses in linear algebra as well as the general education course Math in Everyday Life, and has mentored numerous undergraduate and master's students as a thesis adviser.
Dr. Masangkay Abara served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics from 2010 to 2017 before serving as College Secretary of the UP Diliman College of Science from 2018 to 2025.
The Assistant University Registrar
CHRISTINE JOY A. MAGPAYO is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches Rhetoric and Performance courses. She has published articles in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), Philippines Communication Society (PCS) Review, Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal (SEAMSJ), and Philippine Humanities Review (PHR), among others. Her research interests include gender studies, popular culture, and children's literature. She also designs learning modules and conducts training on effective communication for students at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, as well as for professionals in various industries.
The Assistant University Registrar for Academic Information System
Dr. Eugene Rex L. Jalao is an Associate Professor of Analytics and Industrial Engineering in the University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He specializes in Decision Support Systems, Business Analytics Solutions, Data Mining, Optimization and Systems Simulation. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in May 2013. Additionally, he obtained his Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering degree as well as his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2009 and 2007 respectively. He was inducted into the Alpha Phi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society in 2012. His ten years of work and research experience are in the fields of business analytics both here in the Philippines and in the United States of America, specifically in the Banking, FMCG, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Information Technology industries. Also, he is the current director of the Business Analytics Certification Program of UP National Engineering Center. Furthermore, he was part of 50-person APEC team that drafted the Recommended Data Science and Analytics Competencies last May 2017 in Singapore. He is also a certified SAP ERP Materials Management consultant, a Matlab computing associate and an advocate of the R Programming language.
