Well things seem to be going fairly OK. My professors are currently happy with my work and I'll get to finally publish a research paper on my work and do a presentation somewhere. Right now, I am aiming for Copenhagen, Denmark. If I am doubly lucky, I might hit another, perhaps San Fransisco too for another conference. There are a few other things in the works as well, but I'll announce them when they become more solid.
I also passed my interviews with Sony Japan and it seems like I'll be joining them in doing R&D for display systems. Sony just recently put out a 3 mm thick display system that has many people drooling and it seems like that these guys want me to work on fine tuning their manufacturing processes. It will be interesting to see how things go. Unfortunately, I will be based in Atsugi which is about 50 km South and West of Tokyo (in other words, a 1 hour train ride in). I just called a friend asking her about the city and the first thing she said to me was think "Country side." Doh! But I hear that there is some decent surfing in the area too!
I told my professor about my new job opportunity and he quipped that "it seems that all the students are leaving the lab for work." My supervising professor is a really nice guy (exceptionally patient too) and it's pretty obvious that he would like more students to stick around to do their Ph.Ds. For me, I just want a change of pace outside of a lab and my Saturdays back instead of going to my lab meetings on the weekends.
This next year is going to be rather interesting!
2 comments:
If you go to San Fran, you should take the opportunity to go to Vancouver/Toronto (hint hint) as well
hehe, I'll see how my conference application goes! Now only if I can find a conference in Toronto :)
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