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Academic Job Market: One Experience

Posted on August 20, 2018 by admin

This post is intended as a “sample point”, and a bit of informal guidance, for people who are on the academic job market, or will be going on it soon. Throughout the different phases of the job market, I’ve relied … Continue reading →

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Academic Job Market in 13 Hotel Room Views

Posted on August 18, 2018 by admin

My academic job market experience  I took pictures of the views from all but one of the hotel rooms I’ve stayed in, during my interviews, February-April of this year. Gorgeous continent’s urban and not-so-urban areas. Nights and days, storms and … Continue reading →

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Running collection, June 2018

Posted on June 24, 2018 by admin

Over the last six months, several true gems have been added to the “collection” of the states where I ran at least one mile: Dec. 2017: Utah. Feb. 2018: Wisconsin. March 2018: Minnesota. June 2018, on a lovely road trip: … Continue reading →

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2017 IEEE Fog World Congress

Posted on November 2, 2017 by admin

IEEE Fog World Congress was a blast. It takes a lot to put together an inaugural conference on a new topic — the organizing committee did a great job putting the event together. Moderating the Fog and Edge from the Practitioners’ … Continue reading →

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Running collection, November 2017

Posted on October 27, 2017 by admin

This year I have been fortunate to be able to add 4 new states to the collection of the states where I ran at least a mile: Georgia, Nebraska, Iowa, and Indiana. With the addition of Sweden and Denmark to … Continue reading →

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NYC Media Lab Summit’17 Demonstration

Posted on September 28, 2017 by admin

We presented a demonstration of a fog computing testbed we designed and developed at the NYC Media Lab Summit in the New York City. The testbed use case we presented in this demonstration focused on computing a specific type of … Continue reading →

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2017 Triathlon Age Group National Competition

Posted on August 25, 2017 by admin

The Nationals, the first ones for me, are an experience to be savored. There is a sense of achievement in getting to this race — I’ve worked towards this qualifying-only race for 5 years, after all. 

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Microsoft Azure Research Award

Posted on July 21, 2017 by admin

We are grateful to Microsoft for supporting our work with a Microsoft Azure Research Award, which provides us the equivalent of $20,000 in Azure computing services. The award will help us study new fog-specific computing program decompositions and performance-costs tradeoffs … Continue reading →

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Improv Training Helps to Enjoy The Randomness of Public Speaking

Posted on May 24, 2017 by admin

Now living in a lush quiet suburban New Jersey Princeton area, I miss exactly two things about New York City: the food scene and my improv classes. If I move to a big city yet again, improv training will be … Continue reading →

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Lesser-known Differences between Academia and Industry

Posted on May 6, 2017 by admin

The Chronicle recently published an interesting opinion piece that mentions several aspects of working in academia that may not be as evident as commonly discussed ones. Having worked in industry and academia, I appreciated the commentary. There are indeed relatively … Continue reading →

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