Category Archives: Technology

Quirky, which Brought us Pawcet and Hundreds of Other Products, Is No More

Posted on September 25, 2015 by admin

Quirky, an invention platform startup that created the magnificent Pawcet, a drinking fountain for dogs, is, alas, no more. After raising more than $180 million from investors and bringing more than 400 products to the market over its 6 years … Continue reading →

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Experience with Manufacturing

Posted on May 24, 2015 by admin

When I was interviewing for PM positions a couple of years ago, I wanted to do what I do now – build exciting real-world products soup to nuts, concept to manufacturing to deployment, algorithms to software and hardware design to … Continue reading →

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DARPA Project Experience and DARPA Project Leaders

Posted on May 3, 2015 by admin

Recent Wired Magazine profile of Dr. Regina Dugan, formerly the director of Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and currently an executive at Google (Wired Magazine article available here) led me to a Harvard Business Review article by Dr. Dugan … Continue reading →

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Nike Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware

Posted on April 21, 2014 by admin

Oh, Nike, – really?! Nike’s Fuelband Hits the Wall Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware A company with such rich history of innovation surely could have tried harder to gain and preserve its strategic positioning … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Data Culture – and Fully Analytical Products?

Posted on April 17, 2014 by admin

For data enthusiasts everywhere, this is exciting news: New CEO Nadella pushes data culture at Microsoft Great stuff. Surely there will be many lessons learned in transforming corporate culture like this. Microsoft is big enough and established enough to make … Continue reading →

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Data Empathy

Posted on March 21, 2014 by admin

I recently went to an amazing Data Science meetup which I highly recommend to all New York-based folk interested in all things data – Data Driven NYC, hosted (and generously catered) by Bloomberg in their beautiful 59th street office. Founder … Continue reading →

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Post-Ph.D. Job Market: Timelines

Posted on January 4, 2014 by admin

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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Data, Diverse and Mighty

Posted on August 21, 2013 by admin

I’ve been thinking lately about how many different types of data I actually worked with. Surely, there are indoor light energy traces that I collected and analyzed in an extensive study that resulted in 2 top-tier papers, a public dataset, … Continue reading →

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Visualizations: my CV and my Research Statement as Word Clouds

Posted on July 30, 2013 by admin

As far back as I remember, I was a fan of clear, catchy, and entertaining visual data representations. Like those that often appear in the National Geographic or the Economist – the engaging ways of presenting scientific facts and data. … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Pervasive World: Wearable Devices

Posted on June 7, 2013 by admin

Having seen nothing but my dissertation in the last 6 months, I have been tremendously enjoying an opportunity to scale back on writing and to catch up with the state of the world of innovative pervasive and mobile technology. Oh, … Continue reading →

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