Dr.

Rafael Dinerus Guerrero III

Dr. Guerrero was born in Manila on August 7, 1944. His parents are
Rafael Guerrero, Jr. and Rizalina Guerrero. He took his B.S.
(Zoology) at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon
City in 1964 and finished his M.S. (Applied Zoology) from U.P. Los
Baños, Laguna in 1970. In 1974, he received his PhD degree in
Fisheries Management from Auburn University, USA as a recipient
of the NEDA-USAID Postgraduate Scholarship Award.

Two years after that, he became the Dean of the College of Inland Fisheries of Central
Luzon State University from 1976 to 1981. Then he worked as Director for Training and
Extension of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's Aquaculture
Department in 1983. The year before that, he and his wife, Luzviminda, co-founded the
Aquatic Biosystems, an aquaculture consulting firm in 1982.At present (2006), Dr.
Guerrero is the Executive Director of Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine
Research and Development (PCAMRD).Dr. Guerrero has published a lot of works
related to tilapias.

His Contribution:

Among the Filipino fisheries scientists tilapias have always been linked with Dr. Rafael
D. Guerrero III. He observed that one of the most prominent problems in tilapia culture
is overpopulation. Tilapia matures after two to three months from its fry stage and can
produce as much as 5,000 eggs every three months depending on its size. When he
took his doctorate degree in Auburn University in the early 1970s, he focused his
dissertation on the the production of monosex tilapia into male using synthetic
androgens. When he returned to the Philippines, he continued his experiment on tilapia
sex reversal at the Central Luzon State University in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija where he
served as the first dean of its college of fisheries.And he was successful.Now, the
technology he developed has been adopted not only by Filipino fish farmers but by
other fish farmers in other parts of the globe.
 Enrique Mapua Ostrea Jr.

"Buddy" ang nakasanayang katawagan kay Enrique Mapua Ostrea, Jr. Ang kanyang
amang si Enrique Sr. ay dating Professor at Chairman ng Departamento ng Metalurgiya
sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (UP). Ang kanyang ina naman na si Elena Mapua, ay isang
graduate ng UP Pharmacy.

His Contribution:

Si Enrique Mapua Ostrea, Jr. ay isang Pilipinong doktor na kinilala sa kanyang

pananaliksik ukol sa mga gamot at pag-aaral sa larangan ng pediatriko. Siya ang
nagdisenyo ng Mectest kit na nagpasimula ng paggamit ng Meconium upang i-"Drug
Test" ang isang tao na kung saan ito ay tinuring na isa sa pinakamahusay at accurate
na paraan ng drug testing. Dahil dito pinarangalan siya bilang Most Outstanding
Physician in Medicine in the Midwest United States noong 1991; Best Doctor in America
noong 1994 at Philippine Pediatric Society Testimonial of Recognition noong 1995.

Dr. Lilian Formalejo Patena

Setyembre 16, 1953 nang isilang si Lilian Formalejo Pateña sa Ibaan, Batangas kina
Teodoro at Crisanta Pateña. Ang kanyang ina ay mahilig sa
mga orkidya, samantalang ang kanyang lolo ay nagmamay-ari
ng taniman ng palay at mga niyog. Ang mga bunot ng niyog
galing sa niyugan ng kanyang lolo ay nakikita ni Lilian na
ginagamit ng kanyang ina bilang taniman ng mga orkidya.
Palagi nang punong-puno ng mga bulaklak ang kanilang
bakuran noon. Valedictorian si Lilian nang magtapos ng
Elementarya sa Ibaan Central School (1966) at Valedictorian pa
rin nang magtapos ng High School sa St. James Academy
(1970). Pumasok siya sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas sa Los Baños, kung saan nagtapos
siya ng Bachelor of Science in Sugar Technology (pinagsamang Chemistry at Sugar
Engineering). Pinili niyang makapagtrabaho sa unibersidad kung saan
pinagdalubhasaan niya ang tissue culture ng mga halaman.

Her Contribution:

Nakilala Si Lilian Patena bilang nakatuklas ng breed ng kalamansi at suhang walang

buto (seedless) at nakadiskubre ng micropropagation na nagpatatag sa industriya ng
saging na saba sa Pilipinas. Pinarangalan siya bilang One of The Outstanding Women
in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) noong 1998, Women of Distinction for Science and
Technology noong 1995 at Outstanding Young Scientist noong 1990.Ang kauna-
unahang tagumpay ni Lilian ay ang pagkakatuklas nila ni Dr. Ramon Barba ng isang
tissue culture na ginamit nila sa kalamansi at suha na napag-alaman nilang maaari ring
gamitin sa patatas, orkidya, rattan at iba pang mga halaman. Nailathala ang kanilang
pag-aaral sa Philippine Journal of Crop Science at napiling Best paper of the Crop
Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) taong 1978. Hindi lamang dito sa Pilipinas
kinilala ang kanilang natuklasan, maging sa Hawaii, Guam at sa mga bansang Hapon at
Tsina. Sa pag-aaral na ito naitala ang pagku-culture sa endosperm upang makapag-
produce ng isang prutas na walang buto tulad ng kalamansi at suha.

Jose B. Cruz
Jose B. Cruz has compiled an enviable record of accomplishments in engineering
research and education. During his 27 years on the faculty of
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Illinois, he was one of the original founders of the
Allerton Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers,
served as associate director of the Coordinated Science Lab,
and as associate head of the department. He was chair of the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of California, Irvine, from 1986 to 1990 and then
served as dean of engineering at The Ohio State University. He
retired from the deanship in 1997 and was awarded the first Winbigler Chair in
Engineering.

His Contribution:

In research, he has made major contributions to the theory and practice of automatic
control. His work in the 1970s and 1980s on the control of leader-follower systems is
still considered one of the major contributions of the half-century in the theory of
hierarchical control systems. Still active in research, he leads a major research effort by
a consortium of four universities and one company, funded by DARPA, to apply his work
on the leader-follower control problem to the design of optimum strategies for human-
automaton resource entity deployment with potential applications in future combat
systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1980
and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and AAAS.

Dr. Lourdes Cruz

Dr. Cruz was born on May 19, 1942. She is the receiver of the NAST Outstanding
Young Scientist Award in 1981, the NRCP Achievement Award in
Chemistry in 1982 and the Outstanding Women in the Nation's
Service Award (Biochemistry) in1986 because her accomplishment in
science. Perhaps the passion for science was in her blood. Her
father, Ramon Arao Cruz, was a chemist at the University of the
Philippines (UP) Los Baños, and her mother, Julita Tolentino Jansuy,
was a former dentist.

Her Contribution:

Dr. Cruz has done important contributions to the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the
venom of Fish-Hunting Conus Marine Snails. Dr. Lourdes Cruz researches led in part to
the biochemical classification of more than 50 biologically dynamic peptides from Conus
venom, and the improvement of conotoxins as biochemical probes for testing the
behavior of the brain. W-Conotoxin is now one of the most extensively used apparatus
for studying neuronal calcium channels, and u-conotoxin is the reagent of option in
neuroscience when muscular movement must be prohibited to inspect actions at the
synapse.

Gregory L. Tangonan
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 26, 1947 to Tomas and Aurea Ligot
Tangonan, Greg grew up in Honolulu and La Puente,
California. He studied at the Cathedral School in Hawaii,
and went on to finish High School at the La Puente High
School in California in 1965. He has twin sisters, Nena and
Julie, and a brother, John. An aunt, Gloria Ligot Escano,
invited Greg to study at the University of San Carlos in
Cebu City, Philippines to take up Physics. After two years,
he transferred to the Ateneo de Manila, where he finished
his course and graduated in 1969.He went back to the States, where he earned his
Master’s Degree in Physics at the California State University in 1971.

His Contribution:

Dr. Greg Tangonan has over thirty-two years of impressive experience with Hughes
Research Laboratories (HRL), the world’s premier physical science and engineering
research laboratories. As HRL’s Director of Research until he retired in 2003, Greg has
been on the leading edge of technology, conducting pioneering research, providing real-
world technology solutions, and responsible for innovation strategy, conceptualization
and execution of HRL’s Research Programs with collaborators worldwide. He was in
charge of Strategic Planning of Research for the owners of HRL Laboratories, General
Motors, Raytheon, and Boeing. Greg’s work has realized groundbreaking advances in
ultra-high-performance circuitry, and innovative computing and communications. His
research and inventions in the field of science and technology operate in space, on
aircraft, in automobiles, and in a variety of consumer products that make our world
safer, support our national security and improve our quality of life.

Caesar Aya-ay Saloma

Caesar Aya-ay Saloma born on 28 March 1960) obtained his BS, MS, and PhD degrees
from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1981, 1984, and
1989, respectively. He spent his childhood in Baclayon, Bohol and
attended high school at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in
nearby Tagbilaran City. He is included in the Marquis Who's Who in
Science and Engineering 2016-2017 (12th Edition) and in the
Ultimate List of 15 Asian Scientists To Watch that was published by
Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011.

His Contribution:

Saloma led the development of a method to generate high-contrast images of

semiconductor sites via one photon optical beam-indu ced current imaging and confocal
reflectance microscopy. The project received a US patent (No. 7,235,988) on 26 June
2007. His efforts resulted in the development of novel and cost-effective / non-invasive
method techniques in optical signal recovery, retrieval and identifying microscopic
defects in integrated circuits (IC) enabling the accurate identification of circuit defects by
producing a high-contrast image map that distinguishes semiconductor, metal and
dielectric sites from each other. The pioneering work of his team on the use of the
hydrogen Raman shifter as a light source for two-color two-photon excitation
microscopy was also awarded a US patent (No. 8,227,256 B2) on 24 July 2012. His
fields of interest include confocal laser scanning microscopy, interferometry, signal and
image processing, neural networks, and complex adaptive systems. Aside from
developing new optical microscopy techniques, Saloma is also engaged in the
development of efficient models for describing the dynamics of real-world systems that
involve a large number of interacting agents.