Academia

“Why aren’t you doing important work?” — Richard Hamming There is a quote by Søren Kierkegaard that goes something like this: life is understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. I never fully…

As I was scrolling through twitter, I happened to come across this beautiful thread that spoke of the lessons learned by a researcher while contemplating his research in the grand scheme of things. Th…

Last week I attended the OSA Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference in Lima, Peru. I had a great time, but above all, this was my first conference, since I started my lab , in which I didn’t fe…

I like to do presentations. I really do. It’s not my favorite thing, but I sure love inspiring others from the work I do. Ever since I learned of many creative ways to prepare a presentation, I’ve lik…

Despite all the tools and applications at my disposal, I like to write my comments, feedback and grade the lab reports I get from my students using plain text files. To be precise, markdown formatted…

A Ph.D. thesis is one of those things that has a life of its own. Last January, I had the opportunity to write a two-page abstract of my thesis for publication in Electronic Letters on Computer Vision…