Dr. Victorino is an Early Career Fellow in AI for Environmental Resilience at The University of Manchester, UK (UoM). He is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Early Career Research Fellowship under the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), delivered by the British Council, for the project “Enhancing Environmental Resilience through AI-driven Analysis of Unstructured Data.” Under this project, he develops methods to extract structured information from survivors’ and community narratives on how flooding shapes citizens’ lives.

Noel’s research centres on turning narratives into actionable insight by exploring human experience at scale, in crisis, and in everyday life. Earlier work includes eBayanihan, a crowdsourced disaster management platform that captures the human dimension during calamities, and wapr.tugon.ph, a blockchain-enabled helpline for detecting psychosocial aid requests from reports of unlawful killings in the Philippines.

At Kyushu Institute of Technology, his dissertation focused on detecting wearing-off among Parkinson’s patients using wearable data, which the Garmin Health Awards 2022 recognised as the Most Innovative Solution in Health Care. His postdoctoral fellowship extended the framework to forecast wearing-off and to estimate the quality of life among schizophrenic patients.

He holds a PhD in Engineering as a Japanese Government scholar, and an MS in Computer Science from Ateneo de Manila University, where he teaches AI and Social Computing. Before joining UoM, he served as Chief Information Technology Officer at SolX Technologies Inc., an energy startup in the Philippines.