Electrical and Computer Engineering Insights

What influenced the speaker's decision to pursue Electrical and Computer Engineering in college?

• A strong interest in kinematics.

• A preference for electricity and magnetism over kinematics.

• A desire to work in oilfield services.

• The advice of her high school counselor.

What was a significant personal development for the speaker during her college years?

• She became the best student in all her classes.

• She found her passion in wireless communications research.

• She grew in confidence and leadership, becoming president of HKN.

• She decided to pursue a career in oilfield services.

What was the nature of the speaker's first internship project at Schlumberger?

• It was directly related to wireless communications.

• It was focused on signal processing.

• It was very physics-heavy and not directly related to her later studies.

• It involved developing a gesture recognition program.

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What was a key challenge the speaker faced during her first year of graduate school?

• She struggled to find a research project.

• She found the graduate-level courses, particularly probability, extremely difficult.

• Her advisor did not allow her to work on the surround view systems project.

• She had to travel to Taiwan for an internship during her first year.

What was a key activity the speaker engaged in during their second year of graduate school?

• Attending their first conference to present a paper.

• Interning at Texas Instruments.

• Working on video quality assessment algorithms with a lab mate.

• Focusing on monocular depth estimation.

What important skill did the speaker develop in their third year due to their advisor's hands-off style?

• Mastering advanced machine learning concepts.

• Becoming self-motivated and learning to work independently.

• Successfully defending their dissertation.

• Gaining expertise in natural language processing.

Which company did the speaker intern at during their fourth year of graduate school, where they received valuable mentorship and guidance on presentations?

• Qualcomm

• Google

• Texas Instruments

• The University of Texas

During their sixth year, the speaker completed two internships. What was a notable difference in the primary focus of the projects at Qualcomm and Google?

• Qualcomm focused on natural language processing, while Google focused on classical computer vision.

• Qualcomm involved learning Python, while Google involved learning TensorFlow.

• Qualcomm focused on classical computer vision, while Google focused on natural language processing.

• Qualcomm allowed work on personal research, while Google had a policy against it.