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In 2004 Saloma received the Galileo Galilei Award from the International Commission for Optics in recognition of his significant contributions in the field of optics that were accomplished under comparatively unfavorable conditions. He is the first scientist from an ASEAN member country to receive the Galileo Award.
In 2006,the UP Board of Regents appointed him along with two others,to the highest rank of Scientist III in the UP Scientific Productivity System which was first implemented in the said year. His three-year appointment was renewed in 2009,2012 and 2015,respectively. He is the only UP faculty member who has been appointed to the rank of Scientist III for four consecutive terms.
In 2008,he received the triennial ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technologist Award from the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology during the 8th ASEAN Science and Technology Week in Manila,Philippines. [4] Saloma was recognized for his contributions to photonics and signal processing that were accomplished with colleagues and students at the National Institute of Physics. [5]
Saloma led the development of a method to generate high-contrast images of semiconductor sites via one photon optical beam-induced current imaging and confocal reflectance microscopy. The project received a US patent (No. 7,235,988) on 26 June 2007. He has published more than 100 papers in leading photonics,applied physics and multidisciplinary journals in the US and Europe. His efforts resulted in the development of novel and cost-effective / non-invasive method techniques in optical signal recovery,retrieval and identifying microscopic defects in integrated circuits (IC) enabling the accurate identification of circuit defects by producing a high-contrast image map that distinguishes semiconductor,metal and dielectric sites from each other. The pioneering work of his team on the use of the hydrogen Raman shifter as a light source for two-color two-photon excitation microscopy was also awarded a US patent (No. 8,227,256 B2) on 24 July 2012.
His fields of interest include confocal laser scanning microscopy, [6] interferometry, [7] signal and image processing, [8] neural networks, [9] and complex adaptive systems. [10] Aside from developing new optical microscopy techniques,Saloma is also engaged in the development of efficient models for describing the dynamics of real-world systems that involve a large number of interacting agents.
Saloma was elected to the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in July 2005. The NAST is the highest recognition body of the Philippine government on science and technology. It provides advice to the Philippine President and the Cabinet on matters related to science and technology
He is a recipient of other awards and recognition including the NAST Outstanding Young Scientist (Applied Physics) in 1992,the NAST-Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Prize in Physics in 1997,and the Gawad Chanselor para sa Natatanging Guro (Outstanding Teacher) in 2006 and several Gawad Chanselor para sa Pinakamahusay na Mananaliksik (Best Researcher in S&T) from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Saloma also received from the Metrobank Foundation the 2007 Outstanding Teacher Award on September 7,2007,and the Award for Continuing Excellence and Service (ACES) on January 29,2014.
Saloma was awarded by the Department of Science and Technology,Philippines (DOST) with the 1999 Outstanding R&D Award in Basic Research (Eduardo Quisumbing Medal) for his work (with F. Domingo) on image compression of video and confocal images [Applied Optics 38,pp. 3735–3744 (1999)]. He was included in the "50 Men and Women of Science" list that was released by the DOST for its 50th anniversary celebration as a government department in June 2008.
He received the Lingkod Bayan Award - the Presidential Award for Outstanding Public Service,from Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in a ceremony held at the Malacanang Palace on 19 September 2008. The award is the highest recognition given to a Philippine government employee for outstanding work performance.
He was elected Inaugural Fellow of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (Physics Society of the Philippines) on 23 October 2008 during the 26th SPP Physics Congress in Baguio City.
Saloma received the 2010 Outstanding Science Administrator Award (Dioscoro Umali Medal) from the DOST and NAST in recognition of his commitment,leadership,dedication and outstanding service as scientist,teacher and administrator. His vital role in the establishment and on-going completion of the National Science Complex was particularly recognized.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Journal of Science,which published its first issue in 1906.
Saloma was elevated to Senior Member status by the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America in October 2010.
He carries the rank of Professor 12 and on 2 March 2011,he was elected Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman by the UP Board of Regents. He served for a period of three years. [11] He was succeeded by medical anthropologist and College of Social Sciences &Philosophy Dean Dr. Michael L. Tan on 1 March 2014.
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Min Gu is a Chinese-Australian physicist who currently serves as the Executive Chancellor and Professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Previously he was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship at RMIT University.
Michael Lim Tan is a Filipino medical anthropologist, veterinarian, and writer who is currently a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. Tan served as the chancellor of UP Diliman from 2014 to 2020.
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Seok-Hyun "Andy" Yun is a scientist and technologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was born and raised in South Korea and received his B.S. (1991), M.S., and Ph.D. (1997) in Physics from KAIST in Korea. His dissertation research in fiber optics led to a venture-funded startup in San Jose, CA, where he was a founding member and manager. He joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (Dermatology) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2003 and is as of January 2017 a Professor, MGH Research Scholar, and the Director of the Harvard-MIT Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics. He is a recipient of the 2016 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
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Elizabeth M. C. Hillman is a British-born academic who is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Columbia University. She was awarded the 2011 Adolph Lomb Medal from The Optical Society and the 2018 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award.
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Audrey K. Ellerbee Bowden is an American engineer and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University, as well as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. She is a Fellow of Optica, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Joel Joseph Sacro Marciano Jr. is a Filipino engineer, academic and the first and current Director General of the Philippine Space Agency, a government agency under the Office of the President in charge of the Philippines' national space program.
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