Christian Alis

Assistant Professor and Senior Data Scientist @aim_edu. PhD Physics. Filipino. Geek.

[Voice Arena @voicearena_ai]

Introducing Voice Arena STT Leaderboard.

LibriSpeech is older than the transformer.

FLEURS is people reading translated Wikipedia sentences aloud.

This is still how the industry ranks speech models. In 2026.

Today we're releasing the Voice Arena STT Leaderboard - a human-verified benchmark for STT accuracy on real, spontaneous conversation, across 7 languages: 🇺🇸 US English, ��🇳 Hindi, 🇧🇩 Bangla, 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese, 🇻🇳 Vietnamese, 🇷🇴 Romanian & 🇸🇦 Arabic 🧵

US English Leaderboard ⬇️

[Rafael Prieto-Curiel @rafaelprietoc]

We combined all forms of Active mobility (walking and cycling) into A, moving by Public Transport (Bus or Metro) into B, and moving by Car (including motorbikes and taxis) into C.

The result: the ABC of mobility 🚶🚌🚗

Check out our new paper 👇🧵
https://t.co/qB23oP4NB8

[Knoxx** @porfiriodon15]

@barrygutierrez3 Sing with me:

Fund,Fund ni Sara pen
De intel na, de confi pa..
How?How?de karabaw..uubusin?

Quimbo namimilipit
Marti’t Zubiri namumulaklak
Sara sa papel lang dakdak.

Sarang mayor, bugbog sheriff
Sarang yumi, ubos ang salapi
Bye..Bye pondo matira��y wala
Matira’y wala😂😅

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

There are 2 basic kinds of recsys: content-based (CB) and collaborative filtering (CF). In CB, recos are based on the contents of items a user liked previously: if you've liked porn, it will reco porn to you. CF bases it on your peer group. If they like porn, it will reco porn.

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

Someone needs to explain to the good Senator how algorithms and targeted ads work.

[leni del rey @mariaIeonor]

“pero nung nagsabi nang nagsabi ng ‘madumb’ binigyan ako ng ateneo ng honorary degree. tingin niyo ba yung ateneo magbibigay sa isang lutang saka bobo? tapos ngayon, hindi lang ateneo kundi harvard”

- atty leni in her bardagul era 💅🏻

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

@eflegara See you next year

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

Our latest work (with @ianalis and Chris Monterola) on human mobility has just been published with @SpringerNature in @SciReports. Read here: https://t.co/aQir2dQT3y

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

@CebuPacificAir I have a flight to Boracay and one of the reminders that I got is to specify my residence address via manage bookings. However, there is no such thing in manage booking. I tried to change the destination address but it also results in an error. What should I do?

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

@eflegara @Converge_CSU @mySKYupdates I also don't know. Perhaps it will use the fiber connection for cable tv

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

@cnnphilippines @Joyceilas Can @SenLeiladeLima attend this time?

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

Incompetence and lack of leadership will kill us all.

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

What is big data? How do we process these high volume, high velocity datasets? What are the biggest challenges we face working w/ big data?

The MSDS program is opening the Big Data & Cloud Computing course event under Dr. @ianalis to the public for free. https://t.co/oBy504NOk0

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

Join our team in the Asia Pacific! We‘ve an opening for a postdoc position in Data Science/AI and/or Complex Systems. If you’re interested in joining our dynamic team, contact our Exec. Managing Dir., Prof. Dr. Chris Monterola at [email protected] and copy me—[email protected] 👍🏼

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

.@ianalis presents our work at the Urban Complexity session here at the #CCS2019. In our work, we developed an affinity-driven urban agglomeration model that can reconstruct upto over 90% accuracy how our governments define metropolitan boundaries. @CCS2019_NTU

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

scrapER2019 -- python script for downloading all election returns and certificates of canvas from the COMELEC transparency server https://t.co/HKGh22hdmN

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

Archives: Facebook Finds ‘Coordinated and Inauthentic Behavior’ In the Philippines; Suspends a Set… by Melanie Smith https://t.co/1jx1iPpgiz

[Erika Legara @eflegara]

Spread the word to your friends/contacts with Data Engineering (Architecture or Warehousing) background who are also interested in getting a MS in Data Science degree with @aim_edu. There's an available (full) corporate sponsorship with campus accommodation.

Email: [email protected]

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

BBC News - Rewriting history in the Philippines and the fight for the truth https://t.co/SnoPZQiEAz

[Christian Alis @ianalis]

Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice https://t.co/vI0EgmsHHX