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Personal Information

  • Incoming junior | Computer science major at Marquette
  • Working with Dr. Povinelli in the GasDay Lab

Weekly Log

Week 1 (May 30 - June 2)

  • Discussed preliminary project ideas with other researchers and mentor.
  • Attended library tour.
  • Attended the talk on how to conduct research.
  • Read paper on the GEFcomp2014- Hongetal2016
  • Read Bengio Learning Deep Architectures for AI
  • Found more material to read.
  • Attended weekly book club meeting as suggested by mentor
  • Read chapter 1-3 in the book titled Deep Learning Book
  • Read Probabilistic Forecasting by Gneting and Katzfuss
  • Additive models and robust aggregation for GEFcomp2014 probabilistic electric load and electricity price forecasting by Gaillard, Goude, Nedellec.
  • Read DeepAR: Probabilistic Forecasting with Autoregressive Recurrent Networks
  • Met Dr. Povinelli 4 times: to discuss possible project topics, to get oriented with the lab, to decide on a project topic, and to establish weekly milestones

Week 2 (June 5 - June 9)

  • Read chapter 4 of deep neural network book
  • Attended GasDay camp
    • Learned what GasDay does
    • Benefits of working at GasDay
    • Further research opportunities at GasDay
    • How to work in a team
  • Attended the Ethical research training
    • Learned key concepts such as not fabricating, falsifying, and plagiarizing
  • Read
  • Met Dr. Povinelli 3 times to discuss current progress
  • Attended weekly book club meeting as suggested by mentor

Week 3 (June 12 - June 16)

  • Tasks undertaken to improve skills
    • Completed 6 weeks of the coursera tutorial on Machine Learning
    • Completed 6 weeks of the Stanford class on Convolution Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
    • Learned basics of Python
  • Completed portion of online RCR training
  • Attended weekly book club meeting as suggested by mentor
  • Met Dr. Povinelli 2 times to discuss current progress
  • Collected data