Neil Patrick
Del Gallego, Ph.D.

Neil Del Gallego received his MS and PhD degrees at De La Salle University. He is the first recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award at DLSU – College of Computer Studies. He also received a 2024 Special Citation from the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Talent Search for Young Scientists. He also earned the Gold Medal for Outstanding Thesis during his MS.

He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Software Technology, College of Computer Studies, at De La Salle University. He is also the lab head of the Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Entertainment (GAME) lab at DLSU CCS.

Before working at DLSU, Neil was in the PH gaming industry for five years at Anino Games Inc. and Playlab Inc. Aside from his professional game development experience, his research interests include image processing, computer vision, and augmented reality. He pioneered the game engine construction course and published a peer-reviewed article in Elsevier – Entertainment Computing journal. He also recently published research articles about super-resolution, image correction, image dehazing, and shadow removal in high-impact SCOPUS journals.