Dominic Dayta is a statistician, data scientist, and fiction author born and raised in the Philippines. He received his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, and later his masters degree in Statistics from the School of Statistics, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Dominic is currently working on his doctorate at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, within the Mathematical Informatics laboratory. His statistical work focuses largely on statistical quality control, nonparametric statistics, and regression-based analysis with applications in quality control, bioinformatics, computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Present Affiliations:
- Doctoral Student, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Education:
- Master of Science, Statistics (University of the Philippines, 2021)
- Bachelor of Science, Statistics (University of the Philippines, 2017)
Writing
His first story, “An Amazona In Manila” won second prize in the World War II True Stories Contest hosted jointly by the Philippine Veterans Bank and Philippine Daily Inquirer in 2013. Since then, his works have appeared in venues in and out of his home country, among them Philippines Graphic, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Liwayway, TAYO Literary Magazine, The Brasilia Review, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. During the quiet hours in between laboratory and consulting duties, he continues working on his first novel while whipping out a short story every now and then.
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