Aside from his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Ymbong is also actively engaged in research centered on dengue studies in the Philippines. His first research project involvement was in 2015-2017 with the project on the ‘’Burden and economic cost associated with health system congestion in dengue outbreak in the Philippines”, a project funded by Brandeis University, USA with Sanofi Pasteur, France. He then become a part of the DOST-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) funded project on the “Phenotypic and genetic adaptation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus to hot or cold conditions in the Philippines” under the Aedes Genome Program from 2017-2020; a collaborative research project of USC, University of the Philippines-Diliman, and Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. The project focused on 1) the development-related phenotypes of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus as affected by factors such as temperature, season and latitude; 2) characterization of new microsatellite markers for Ae. aegypti; Rhoniel Ryan J. Ymbong, M.Sc. Professional Biography Page 1 of 2 and 3) population genetic study of Ae. aegypti across the three Philippine island groups. He was also a part of a research project on the seasonal detection of selected arboviruses (dengue viruses, chikungunya virus and Zika virus) in Ae. albopictus of Cebu city, another DOST-PCHRD funded project from 2020-2022. He has published several papers on mosquito vector studies in peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed international journals. He has presented his works on numerous national and international scientific conferences and consortia including paper presentations in Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Asian Graduate Studies Summit, BIOTA Philippines Annual National Convention to name a few. Currently, he is a permanent faculty under the Biology Department of the College of Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Sciences and is the Chair of the CNU Ethics Review Committee.