William English

William English

PhD Student Researcher, Artificial Inteligence and Emerging Computing Lab, University of Florida

Maintaining a blog for some reason?

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PhD Week 76

Wow, 10 whole weeks since my first post. Hopefully, the long run frequency of my posts will be greater than 0.4 posts/month, but I guess we’ll see. Regardless of frequency, the purpose of these posts as I stated in the original post is to document my life, my thoughts, and the progression of my research. The most significant updates to mention are:

  1. Enrolled at the University of Florida for 3 courses (EEE 5283 with Dr. Oweiss, EEL 5934 with Dr. Islam, and EEL 6935 with Dr. Ruchkin)

  2. Submitted the paper described in the previous post to ICML

  3. Continuing my work on the DARPA ANSR project

That’s really all I can say about my recent academic progress. I am enjoying all of these classes, and my past experience with ROS2 and Temporal Logics has been a great help this semester. I will provide a more in-depth discussion of the content of these courses in the future.

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I started my PhD program in the Fall of 2023. At this time, I wasn’t sure whether or not I was even qualified to pursue this dream of mine. Only a few weeks prior, I was slogging my way through my final undergraduate course (linear algebra), while failing to resist all the distractions present in my life. In the beginning of my program, I was constantly concerned that I would immediately fail out for one reason or another. Luckily, that did not happen. My lifelong addiction to puzzle-solving fueled me through hundreds of hours of subpar programming, some of which was yielded meaningful, publishable results. The ‘publishable’ part of that would certainly not have been possible without my advisor, Dr. Rickard Ewetz, who against all odds was able to teach me how to write research papers that are both scientifically interesting and academically stylish (at least, in the opinion of some reviewers).