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Category Archives: Academia
2025 in the Duke I3T Lab: Students, Systems, and Community
In 2025, two Duke I3T Lab members received their PhDs and moved on to exciting careers in industry: Dr. Sarah Eom joined Exponent as a Biomedical Engineering Consultant; Dr. Lin Duan joined NVIDIA as an XR-AI Engineer. There were several exciting developments in … Continue reading
Postdoc in Context-aware Augmented Reality
Duke University I3T Lab is looking for a postdoc in the area of edge computing-supported context-aware augmented reality. The postdoc will work closely with PI Gorlatova and two very capable and driven ECE and CS PhD students, and will have … Continue reading
Academic Job Market: One Experience
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
Posted in Academia, Achievement, Career and Leadership, Highlights, Research
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Academic Job Market in 13 Hotel Room Views
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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Lesser-known Differences between Academia and Industry
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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2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award
Aya Wallwater, Gil Zussman, and myself received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE GLOBECOM earlier this week, for our paper on measurements and algorithms for networks of energy harvesting nodes that appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Achievement, Communication networks, Conferences, Highlights, Internet of Things, Mobile computing, Women in technology
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Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee
I am finding it exceptionally rewarding to be serving on the Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee, that is, reviewing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference travel grant applications. I’ve served on this committee in 2015 and 2016, and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Conferences, Highlights, Ph.D., Tips and tricks, Uncategorized, Women in technology
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I Wish I Could Dance: Science Magazine Dance Your PhD Contest
Science Magazine announced its 9th annual Dance Your PhD Contest — a competition for best explaining your PhD research in an interpretive dance.
Posted in Academia, Communication skills, Creativity, Graduate school, Humor, Perspectives, Ph.D.
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The Onion At Its Best: ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
The Onion spots a much-needed addition: ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method. Quoting from the article: “After making an observation and forming a hypothesis as usual, the new third step of the scientific method will now require researchers to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Creativity, Good reads, Humor, In the news, Ph.D., Research
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Post-Ph.D. Job Market: Timelines
I recently gave a talk at a WimNet group meeting regarding my post-Ph.D. job market experiences and lessons learned. A version of the slides that is not Columbia-specific and applicable to many EECS students is available below: Slides from the … Continue reading
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