Mapúa Malayan Colleges Mindanao

Faculty Data Research

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Patrick Cerna

Full-time Faculty (CCIS)

Educational Background

Bachelor's : BS CpE (UIC, 1999)

Master's : MIT (NDMU, 2007)

Doctorate : DIT (St. University PH, 2012)

Research Interests

  • ML
  • Digital Forensics
  • IT Frameworks
  • Publications

    Cerna, P. D., Quijada, H. C., Ortaliz, M. J. E., & Saluna, K. C. H. (2025). Hybrid Reinforcement Learning-Based Hyper-Parameter Optimization with Yolov8 Indoor Fire Recognition. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 16(11). DOI: 10.14569/ijacsa.2025.01611104
    Cerna et al. (2024). Determining the Colliding Vehicle in Traffic Accidents Using Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithm. IEEE i-COSTE
    Dones et al. (2024). CluckTrack IoT System. IEEE ICOCO
    Plus multiple works (OCR, AI, indigenous language recognition, multimodal systems, etc.) across IEEE and Scopus-indexed proceedings (2022–2025)

    Research Awards and Achievements

  • Associate Member, DOST – National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP)