Dominic Dayta is a research engineer, statistician, and fiction author born and raised in the Philippines. He received his doctorate in Engineering from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. His work focuses largely on image recognition and 3D modeling. In between he finds time to read and write fiction in both English and Filipino, the more recent of which appearing in venues such as the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Liwayway. He is a full-time husband and overseas father to a half-Siamese cat (of questionable pedigree) named Yerin.
Education:
- Doctor of Engineering (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2026)
- 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.
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