Mikaela Fudolig

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Dimaanoand the surname or paternal family name is Fudolig.

Mikaela Fudolig
Born	Mikaela Irene Dimaano Fudolig
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	University of the Philippines Diliman
Known for	Earning her undergraduate degree at the age of 16
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Ateneo de Manila University Energy Development Corporation University of the Philippines Diliman Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics University of Vermont
Thesis	Analytic treatment of consensus achievement in two-level opinion dynamics models of completely connected agents with single-type zealots.  (2014)

Mikaela Irene Dimaano Fudolig ^[1] (born 1991 or 1992) is a Filipino physicist and former child prodigy. She is known for earning her undergraduate degree at the age of 16.

Life and career

Fudolig was a sophomore at Quezon City Science High School before being pulled into the experimental Early College Placement Program (ECPP). ^{[2] [3]} At the age of 11, she began her university education at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman). She was admitted without a high school diploma and without taking the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT). ^[3]

In 2007, at 16 years old, Fudolig graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics, summa cum laude , from UP Diliman. With a general weighted average of 1.099, ^{[n 1]} she was the class valedictorian. ^{[2] [3] [4]} She then joined the faculty of the National Institute of Physics after graduation. ^[5]

She earned her Master of Science degree in physics, and in 2014 her PhD from UP Diliman with her dissertation entitled, "Analytic treatment of consensus achievement in two-level opinion dynamics models of completely connected agents with single-type zealots." She was also a Fulbright scholar for doctoral enrichment in behavioral economics at the University of California, Irvine, where she was under the supervision of Donald G. Saari. ^{[2] [5] [6]}

Fudolig has worked as a research and development specialist for the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), and as an assistant professor at Ateneo de Manila University from 2016 to 2017. ^[6] In 2016, she was admitted to the University of the Philippines College of Law. ^{[2] [4] [5]}

By 2018–19, Fudolig was a postdoctoral researcher at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Pohang, South Korea. ^[7] By 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the field of computational social science at the University of Vermont (UVM). At UVM, she worked with her supervisors Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds. ^[8]

Selected publications

• Fudolig, M. I. D.; Esguerra, J. P. H. (2014). Analytic treatment of consensus achievement in the single-type zealotry voter model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications . 413: 626–634. ^[9]
• Alshaabi, T., Van Oort, C., Fudolig, M., Arnold, M. V., Danforth, C. M., & Dodds, P. S. (2021). Augmenting semantic lexicons using word embeddings and transfer learning. ArXiv:2109.09010 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09010
• Dodds, P. S., Alshaabi, T., Fudolig, M. I., Zimmerman, J. W., Lovato, J., Beaulieu, S., Minot, J. R., Arnold, M. V., Reagan, A. J., & Danforth, C. M. (2021). Ousiometrics and Telegnomics: The essence of meaning conforms to a two-dimensional powerful-weak and dangerous-safe framework with diverse corpora presenting a safety bias. ArXiv:2110.06847 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06847
• Fudolig, M. I., Alshaabi, T., Arnold, M. V., Danforth, C. M., & Dodds, P. S. (2021). Sentiment and structure in word co-occurrence networks on Twitter. ArXiv:2110.00587 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00587

References

Notes

1. Most state universities and colleges in the Philippines follow the grade point system scale of 5.00 to 1.00, in which 1.00 is the highest possible grade and 5.00 is the lowest possible grade. see Academic grading in the Philippines .

References

1. "2016 UP Law Aptitude Exam (LAE) passers". upsigmarho.com. UP Sigma Rho fraternity. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
2. Catolico, Gianna Francesca (April 13, 2016). "Now it's UP Law for 'whiz kid' after Ph.D. in Physics". Philippine Daily Inquirer . Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
3. UP Diliman Class of 2007 has 8 top honors. University of the Philippines Diliman. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017.
4. Macas, Trisha (April 12, 2016). "Former child prodigy Mikaela Fudolig gets into UP Law". GMA News. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
5. Lozada, Aaron (12 April 2016). Physics prodigy Mikaela Fudolig passes UP Law entrance test. ABS-CBN News . Archived from the original on 28 September 2017.
6. "Mikaela Irene D. Fudolig". ateneo.edu. Ateneo de Manila University. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
7. Fudolig, Mikaela (March 25, 2019). "Link-centric analysis of variations in mobile phone communication patterns". Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas. 37. Retrieved June 29, 2025.
8. "Insights into human behavior from digital traces and cultural artifacts". networkscienceinstitute.org. Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. April 11, 2023. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
9. Fudolig, Mikaela Irene; Esguerra, Jose Perico (11 July 2014). "Analytic treatment of consensus achievement in the single-type zealotry voter model". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 413: 626–634. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2014.07.033.

External links

• Fudolig's profile at the Ateneo de Manila University website
• Fudolig's compilation of speeches