User:Skohli

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
  • 10.1109/PMAPS.2016.7764155
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.090
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494617302946
• Met Dr. Povinelli 3 times to discuss current progress

Week 3 (June 12 - June 16)

• Tasks undertaken to improve skills
  • Partially completed the coursera tutorial on Machine Learning
  • Partially completed the Stanford class on Convolution Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
  • Learned basics of Python
• Completed portion of online RCR training