The ASEAN Generative AI Revolution

Dr. Franz A. de Leon is the Director of the Advanced Science and Technology Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-ASTI) and concurrently a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman). He assumed the position as Director of DOST-ASTI on 15 April 2021. Dr. de Leon attained his BS Electronics and Communications Engineering and MS Electrical Engineering at UP Diliman in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He later obtained his PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southampton at United Kingdom in 2014. His research interests include digital signal processing (DSP) for audio and communications, music information retrieval, audio engineering, and adaptive filters and linear arrays. Dr. de Leon has over 18 years of teaching experience in his alma mater, UP Diliman, under the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute where he teaches Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Audio Signal Processing, among other things. Dr. de Leon has received a number of accolades as a faculty researcher and has led various R&D projects from DOST and UP Diliman. He was a visiting researcher at the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, and a Research Fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. Dr. de Leon served as Interim Chair of the Asia Open RAN Academy from 29 June 2022 to 24 April 2023.