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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.