Caesar Saloma
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Caesar A. Saloma is a Professor of Physics at the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. He is currently the Dean of the College of Science, University of the Philippines. He also served as Director of the National Institute of Physics from June 2000 to May 2006 (two terms). Saloma obtained his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of the Philippines in 1981, 1984, and 1989, respectively. The College of Science is the primary producer of PhD graduates in the basic and applied sciences and mathematics in the Philippines today.
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Saloma is a recipient of the prestigious 2004 Galileo Galilei Award of the International Commission for Optics in recognition of his significant contributions in the field of optics that were made under unfavorable socio-economic conditions.
His fields of interest include confocal laser scanning microscopy,[1] interferometry,[2] signal and image processing,[3] neural networks,[4] and complex adaptive systems.[5] Aside from developing new optical microscopy techniques, Saloma is also interested in the development of efficient models for describing the dynamics of real-world systems that involve a large number of interacting agents. He was awarded a US patent (No. 7,235,988; 26 June 2007) for co-inventing a cost-effective and non-invasive method for identifying microscopic defects in integrated circuits.
Saloma was inducted into the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST) in 2005. The NAST is the highest recognition body of the Philippine government on science and technology. It also provides advise to the Philippine President and the Cabinet on matters related to science and technology
Saloma has received a number of distinguished awards such as the NAST Outstanding Young Scientist (Applied Physics) in 1992, the NAST-Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Prize in Physics in 1997, and the Gawad Chanselor para sa Natatanging Guro (Outstanding Teacher) in 2006 and several Gawad Chanselor para sa Pinakamahusay na Mananaliksik (Best Researcher in S&T) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is one of only three faculty members who have been appointed to the rank of Scientist III by the University of the Philippines System in 2006. He also received the 2007 Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award on September 7, 2007.
Saloma was born in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines on 28 March 1960. His childhood was spent in the nearby town of Baclayon.
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- ^ C Saloma, C Palmes-Saloma and H Kondo, "Site-specific confocal fluorescence imaging of biological microstructures in a turbid medium," Phys. Med. Biol. 43, 1741-1759 (1998); CM Blanca, VJ Cemine, B Buenaobra and C Saloma, "Localizing Defects on Circuits using High-Resolution OFT," "Optics & Photonics News (Optical Society of America)", p. 30 (December 2006).
- ^ P J Rodrigo, M Lim and C Saloma, "Optical-feedback semiconductor laser Michelson interferometer for displacement measurements with directional discrimination," Appl. Opt. 40, 506-513 (2001).
- ^ M Soriano and C Saloma, "Improved classification robustness for noisy cell images represented as principal-component projections in a hybrid recognition system," Appl. Opt. 37, 3628-3638 (1998).
- ^ C Monterola and C Saloma, "Noise-driven manifestation of learning in mature neural networks," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 188102 (2002).
- ^ C Saloma et al., "Self-organized queuing and scale-free behavior in real escape panic," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 11947-11952 (2003)
