This blog describes my experience as an intern at a silicon valley start-up on the product Cora, which is a novel aviation solution for everyday flight (think flying taxis!) I write this because I want to encourage more people to apply to such companies(aka startups) and get a first hand…

Working in the industry is an excellent way to complement your academic experience when you’re at the grad school. Spring semester is usually when most of the students find themselves at a point, where they are looking for a job and might feel lost about how to go about it…

New Year, New Resolution and hopefully New Me!! This has been my go to goal for past couple of years, after reading about people’s inspirational stories of changing themselves over a course of year, especially reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She regularly writes entries describing her goals, habits…

This blog serves the purpose of highlighting my journey in securing an internship and then working for a startup in Summer 2018, while I was studying for my Masters at Virginia Tech. Scoring an internship while you are in grad school is a very competitive and a mind-numbing process. It…

Similar to my previous post about Fall Coursework at Virginia Tech, I want to write this one to share my experiences about courses and the difficulty in choosing them here at Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!!). Since, I know that graduate coursework plays a very important role in determining your career…

I write this because the steps keep changing every-time I try to set-up a Pi, due to change in the state of the Raspbian OS dev. Take the current image of Raspbian or Raspbian Lite from here. …

So yeah! Last few days I have been asked quite a lot of questions on the topic of basically deciding which admits to choose while deciding where to join for a Master’s degree. Quite a few people have then also asked me about the courses at VT(Virginia Tech). …

The last post was mainly focused on the work done by Mark Weiser(in 90s) at Xerox PARC(A very cool place to be in the 80s-90s, birthplace of laser printing, Ethernet, ubiquitous computing, GUI and the list goes on..). In this one, I’d like to talk about the advances at the…

I am taking a course in Wearable devices under Prof Tom Martin at Virginia Tech. He started this course with a great introduction to the history of ubiquitous computing. …