Friday Seminar

Every Friday at our department, someone holds a short presentation about their research. This Friday, it was my turn. I talked about the experiments that I have done, the pipeline we have created from experiment design to data analysis, and what I’m currently doing with the BCI systems’ calibration. I was pleased with the presentation,Continue reading “Friday Seminar”

So many feelings

Being a Ph.D. student is sometimes like riding a rollercoaster of emotions. Some days I love it, but some days I only feel anxiety. Today I have felt both. Performance anxiety The most common negative emotion that I have as a Ph.D. student is performance anxiety. I feel that I don’t know enough, I don’tContinue reading “So many feelings”

Hands on Machine Learning – Book recomendation

This summer, I finished reading the book Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow (2nd ed.) by Aurélien Géron. I had no previous experience with Machine learning, but I feel confident about using it after reading this book. It includes both overview/intuition and in-depth explanations about Machine Learning algorithms and how to use them.Continue reading “Hands on Machine Learning – Book recomendation”

First data collection

Today was one of those big days: I collected my first set of EEG data! I did a simple trial where the test person (my husband in this case) imagined to lift his right or left hand. I am so proud that I got everything to work: the stimuli program, mounting the EEG cap, andContinue reading “First data collection”