Meet Lian Castillo, computer scientist and future sustainability scientist1) What do you do?On weekd

Meet Lian Castillo, computer scientist and future sustainability scientist1) What do you do?On weekdays, I am a systems administrator and release engineer. I occasionally volunteer for the Global Schools Program, an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Youth. I’ve been with them as an ambassador since 2017 and was the outreach lead for the advocates program 2018. Currently part of the core team for the teachers advocates program.2) Where do you work?I am with Cambridge University Press, currently still learning about a lot of new technology I haven’t encountered in my previous corporate role. Most interesting is the dynamic shift to cloud architecture. My most recent training was in Amazon Web Services (AWS), which I believe is the tech giant’s crowning glory.3) Tell us about the photos![Left:] Euphoric selfie after my master’s thesis defense! One of the notable questions that made my heart smile was when my advisor simply asked if I had plans to publish my thesis, which he strongly recommended.[Right:] House of Joy – taken at a Japanese-managed orphanage in Davao Oriental who hosted me during my field research. I am still in close contact with volunteer staff and some visitors who are mostly from Japan.4) Tell us about your academic career path so far.Elementary: Ateneo de Davao UniversityHigh School: Philippine Science High School - Southern Mindanao CampusBachelors: De La Salle University, Computer Science major in Instructional Systems TechnologyMasters: University of Tokyo, Information, Technology, and Society in Asia (ITASIA), Ylab (with a summer course at University of Copenhagen)I am an incoming research student (PhD track) for the University of Tokyo’s graduate program in Sustainability Science. I will be under the tutelage of a professor I had for an elective I cross-enrolled in back in 2016. I found his work really interesting and was hoping to learn more about sustainability along with my tech and education background.5) Anything else you’d like to shareAs you can tell, I haven’t exactly had a linear route and it’s because I like doing a lot of different things. Among them are painting, SCUBA diving, and Pokémon catching! I know there’s a lot of talk about mental health in academia and I feel like these miscellaneous activities will help humanize you as a person and deviate focus from work. This might sound counterproductive but I found that a healthy change in pace does me better than having a looming obsession over any singular facet. In which case, I close with the importance of having fun. :) -- source link

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