My Ph.D. in Finland
My 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 they shared their stories with…
Parham KazemiEmergence of MAC Protocols with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
In this post we will discuss how can we allow medium access control (MAC) protocols to emerge with multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Current MAC protocols are designed by engineers as a predefined set of rules, but have we addressed the question of what happens if we let the network come up with its own MAC…
Mateus Pontes Mota
Industrial PhD
PhD or industry? One-million-dollar question: Going towards Academic field or Practical work? This is the most common question that will come to your mind after graduation. Each one of them has its advantages and disadvantages, so how should I pick one of them? I remember a piece of advice given to me by my professor during…
Sobhi Alfayoumi
My PhD in a Research Institution
People often associate PhD life with an academic career. While you need a university to award you with a PhD title, it doesn’t mean that you strictly have to carry out your research inside the university. But choosing a PhD can be a gruesome task, because you never know if it’s going to be a…
Roberto Pereira
Across the world for a PhD
To 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 adaptation went. I will also…
Pedro Maia de Sant Ana
How I became an Early Stage Researcher
My name is Cristian and I am one of the 15 ESRs of the ITN WindMill Project. I get asked a lot what my job is and how I got it, so I will try to explain it in this article. When I was a B.Sc. student, I was lost in the face of so…
Cristian Jesús Vaca Rubio