Blog

I know I’ve disappointed my audience by posting only once since the inception of my homepage. Recently I’ve been motivated to make some updates after a nearly 5 year hiatus. Most notably spurred by my employment search vis-a-vis graduating (😎 Dr. Chew 😎) I wanted to have a landing spot for what I’ve been up to. It’s unknown (unlikely) prospective employers will look for my deep cuts here but it can’t hurt. I’ve used this occasion to update the gallery function on this template to serve higher resolution images, giving me a domain to display some of my photographs. I may also take this occasion to write some retrospectives on successfully completed projects during my PhD.

If time and motivation align I thought about an interesting blog post series. Since may last post I have published several papers. All of which go into great detail about the science and engineering of devices I made throughout grad school. While reproducible, several key processes and bits of engineering are mentioned in passing or as a quick remark to meet journal word count restrictions. The journal article medium is unkind to debugging and method development, two of the substantial time and effort sinks leading up to the data production and analysis. Transparency into the debugging process from a stream of consciousness blog is the type of “industry knowledge” I wish I had during my PhD. I hope to give some insight into key engineering roadblocks I ran into, how I overcame them, and outline portable methodologies for how someone might apply my thinking to tangentially related problems.