Guess who’s back? <noise of crickets chirping>
It has been quite a while since my last post. The blog’s been dying of neglect- it seemed right to attempt a resuscitation.
In recent news- I’m now pursuing a research fellowship at IIT Bombay. This is an MHRD funded project that aims to develop and deploy open source simulation packages equivalent to MATLAB and OrCAD. My area of interest here is Control Systems and the tool I use is Scilab- though I have been trying my hand at Python (which is also used extensively under this project). Do let me know if you’re ever in the vicinity of the Controls and Computing Lab there.
In my spare time, I’ve been working on a pet project in the Siemens High Voltage lab at my alma mater VJTI (feels funny calling myself an alumnus considering I was a student there just a few months ago). This involves automating the control of the Pulse Transformer there- something that can easily be extended to other equipment in the lab and elsewhere. Both projects are fairly interdisciplinary and immensely satisfying.
I haven’t been attending as many events as I had been while I was back at VJTI- so this weekend’s Barcamp turned out to be a welcome relief, if only to remind me of the hustle and bustle of VJTI. More about that in a future post.
I’ve also been following some very interesting projects and endeavours at VJTI- There is a LOT of good stuff happening. Some efforts are fairly visible, while there are a few gems in the shadows.
While I’ve been away from this blog- I’ve been trying to maintain an “aggregation” blog where I post everything that’s between a blog post and a tweet. I’ve found posterous to be a great way to conveniently share stuff online.
A couple of months ago, I was asked to write an article for the Times Group on what one could do if one was benched at work or had his/her placement deferred. It was published in Mumbai and Bangalore Mirror.
Today I found out that I was featured in an article last year- I hadn’t a clue. The article was about the Mumbai Terror Attacks that I’ve written about earlier.
I really hope I blog more often now. I’m getting tired of doing comeback posts. Got something you think I should talk about? Email it in to ‘ideas’ at this domain.
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