Jul 4Secondments: Great opportunity to gain experience and build networksOne exciting part of being Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) ESR is its secondments, where you find the opportunity to temporary move to other institutes and do research in a new environment. Based on your project, it is possible to experience working and doing research in two different places (both in…Ph D3 min read
Jun 27Across the world for a PhDTo become an ESR in the ITN Windmill project, I left my job and life in Brazil and moved to Germany. Today I will my PhD travel story by explaining how the moving process was, what cultural differences, weather challenges, and languages I had to adjust to and how the…Ph D5 min read
Jun 19In-person vs virtual conference? Which is better?There has been a surge in discussion that recent social media aspects of the society has driven humans closer virtually, but physically further. In the modern world it is easy for anyone to find a job, house, study course or even simple daily life activities just by “looking up” online…Travel5 min read
Jun 13Summer SchoolsWhat is the purpose of a summer school? Some of the hallmarks of Marie Curie projects are mobility and networking between its partners. In normal times, this translates into periodic training events hosted in different countries, secondments and summer schools. It is the last item on the list that is…Ph D4 min read
Jun 1My educational path to master Machine LearningThe First Sight Let us travel back in time to my bachelor’s studies, when I started my journey in obtaining a bachelor’s degree with specialization in communications engineering at Al-Azhar University — Gaza. During the last two years at university, specifically in 2014, I had begun looking for a distinguished graduation project with…Machine Learning6 min read
May 29Across the world for a PhDTo become an ESR in the ITN Windmill project, I left my job and life in Brazil and moved to Germany. Today I will explain how the moving process was, what cultural differences, weather challenges, and languages I had to adjust to and how the adaptation went. …Ph D5 min read
May 9Multiagent RL and Scalability Challenges for Random Access in MTCMachine-type communication (MTC) paradigm in wireless communication will help connect millions of devices to perform different tasks without human involvement. There are numerous use cases of MTC, such as a factory automation, fleet management, smart homes and smart metering, e-health and smart logistics, etc. Mostly, the devices called machine-type devices…Ph D5 min read
Apr 26A secondment experience in Zurich, SwitzerlandAfter two years of remote work, the restrictions were partially lifted, and I got the chance to embark on my first secondment in the last year of the Marie Curie program. My secondment was initially at Cornell University, but since the host supervisor had moved to Switzerland last year, it…Ph D4 min read
Apr 20La paella de WindmillThe receding Covid-19 pandemic is letting us catch a breath of fresh air, and the WindMill project members didn’t want to miss this opportunity to fill the lungs with the salty air of Catalonia. In fact, in the first week of March, the WindMill fellows met in the stunning city…Training4 min read
Apr 10My Ph.D. in FinlandMy name is Parham and I want to share my journey in ITN WindMill project with you. I was born in Shiraz, a southwest city in Iran. I got my bachelor’s degree from Shiraz University in communications engineering. During this time we had some alumni occasionally visiting the university, and…Travel4 min read
