It took me two years to find an area of research, two months to turn it into a research topic, two weeks to write a proposal, two days to write a proposal talk, two hours to defend it, and two minutes to pass it. But now, I’m a PhD student no more: I’m officially a…
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proposal preparation
Tomorrow, I will present and defend my PhD thesis proposal to a committee of professors, and whoever else shows up. While I’m not particularly worried about it (according to local legend, only one person in the history of the department has failed outright), I really hate giving talks. Actually, that’s untrue: the talk isn’t so…
another day, another paper
also known as "NIPS", originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Paper writing is pretty stressful. Code crashes, mistakes are found in equations, and you never have quite the experimental results you want. As deadlines approach, the pressure builds and sleep is abandoned. But I kind of welcome them. And not just for the rare flash…
goin’ to SIGGRAPH
I actually had my sketch accepted last week, but I wanted to update my CV and publications pages first. Turns out, I’m busy enough with my current work that I don’t think I’ll have time in the immediate future, anyway, so…
SIGGRAPH sketching and coding
So, on Friday, Abhijeet and I submitted a sketch to SIGGRAPH. And hey, it’s not blind review, like my last paper, so I can tell you about this.