Posted on April 10, 2019
Won a best poster award at UCF IST School of Modeling, Simulation & Training‘s first research+industry forum, dubbed SMST Day. If interested, here is the poster I presented. Congratulations also to Arash Zarmehr for both his posters! He’s done some fantastic work in the building performance space. You can see I’m always promoting Cacti Council […]
Posted on April 9, 2019
Added a LaTeX template for homework assignments on Overleaf. Please feel free to use it. I’m biased, but I think it’s neat and organized (and my TA liked it). It’s even Star Trek themed! Here is an example PDF.
Posted on April 5, 2019
Participated in the UCF Graduate Research Forum this year. Hundreds of graduate students presented some of their research in poster format, in a ballroom at the student union. Judges came by and delved into the topic with each participant. It was really nice to see so many budding scientists and so much interest work taking […]
Posted on March 27, 2019
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students at SUNY Oswego. This competition cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and communication skills. The competition supports students’ capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. Today was UCF‘s first Three Minute Thesis (3MT) […]
Posted on November 10, 2018
Tonight we dined at the historic Half-Way House Restaurant, located in North Chesterfield, VA, halfway between Richmond and Petersburg. Though easily overlooked today, it was once a mainstay for anyone traveling south of Richmond by carriage, and was an official change and rest stop for Petersburg Coach. The restaurant was built in 1760 on a […]
Posted on November 4, 2018
Built a new mid-range PC for ~$600 for my dad for his birthday. He mostly uses it for video streaming, the Internet, and office work, so… no separate video card 🙂 I could have saved money on a few things, but wanted high quality parts. The case for instance was pricey, but he wanted something […]
Posted on August 17, 2018
If you use Google Scholar to provide your references, double check them to make sure they are correct. It can be tempting to copy/paste the citations directly in a crunch. But nothing is more embarrasing/insulting/damaging than misrepresenting an author and their work. At the time of writing this post, here is what the citation information […]
Posted on March 7, 2018
Think like an amateur. Do as an expert. – Takeo Kanade I got a chance to see Takeo Kanade talk today at UCF. He was fantastic! Takeo Kanade is one of the highest ranked/cited computer scientists on computer vision and robotics. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. He talked about various projects he worked on […]
Posted on January 20, 2018
UPDATE: Maya moved across the street! I’ve been meaning to post something for years about my favorite used book store here in Central Florida (perhaps in the world!!), Yvette Comeau’s Maya Books and Music. First let me just say that I love used book stores. I can browse for hours. If someone comes along for […]
Posted on June 20, 2017
No, not Neko Case (no disrespect). Nicky Case, and the quality of their work, passion, and humanity. Let’s just say if the world was ending and we could only choose 50 people to represent humanity, I’m pretty sure I’d like Nicky to be on that list (after me, because I don’t want to die). Nicky […]