Rey Joseph “RJ” Nieto

I serve as Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Cabinet Secretary, under the Office of the President of the Philippines. The office monitors the implementation of government programmes and helps ensure that public services reach their intended beneficiaries.

I hold a BSc in Mathematics with First Class Honours from the University of Bristol and am pursuing an MSc in Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at University College London (UCL) through flexible distance learning.

Teaching

I teach Mathematics in the Modern World and Living in the IT Era part-time at Bulacan State University. My teaching materials include original lecture notes, exercises, and supplementary resources developed primarily for biology students.

Writing

I write Calculated, a weekly Saturday column for the Manila Bulletin. The newspaper’s author archive provides links to the published essays.

Hobby

My hobby is independent mathematics, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning research. My current project asks how image-analysis methods respond when images are rotated, resized, poorly exposed, or degraded by sensor noise, and whether those response patterns can help identify acquisition problems. The work continues my University of Bristol dissertation, Computational Stability of Cubical Homology; the thesis and Python implementation are publicly available.

Earlier work

My earlier work spans technical writing, journalism, national broadcasting, public affairs, government communications, and programme delivery. Further details are available in my CV and on LinkedIn.