Location (during time of takeover)
School/Institution
| Undergrad | De La Salle University |
|---|---|
| Masters | University of Tokyo |
| Graduate Studies | University of Tokyo |
Featured on December 5, 2021
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Ring in Christmas season with our second to the last Pinoy Scientist of the year, Lian Castillo currently a Build and Release Engineer at Cambridge University Press and sustainability sciences researcher at the University of Tokyo.
Lian graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Instructional Systems Technology from De La Salle University — later working as an infrastructure engineer in the Macquarie Group.
Lian then took up her Master’s in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, with support from the Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship. Earlier this year, she returned to the same university to embark on a Graduate Program in Sustainability Science as part of the Japanese Government (MEXT) Research Scholarship.
As a Build and Release Engineer at Cambridge University Press, Lian is the gatekeeper of code deployments in staging and production environments. She is also currently a mentor at gradmap_ph which provides dedicated support and mentorship to aspiring Pinoy Scientists.
Some fun facts about Lian!
- Computer Science wasn’t her first choice. She was so into art that if Pisay wasn’t there, she would have gone straight to Fine Arts.
- She’s really into ASMR — she used to watch tingly-things as a kid, like Bob Ross, before knowing what it was called.
- She accidentally dabbled into existentialism when she got into her second choice for summer exchange — Kierkegaard. (didn’t get accepted to ETH) Funnily enough, she’s a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan so everything just went full circle.
