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my first week off in a while
November 29, 2025
work Thankfully, there's little to say work-wise. I pretty much took the whole week as a true vacation. I had a handful of emails that required more-or-less...
balancing reviews and relaxation
November 22, 2025
work I finished my Eurocrypt reviews early! I wanted to get ahead of schedule to free up my Thanksgiving week, and managed to push through the papers this...
cold and collaborative week
November 15, 2025
work This was a surprisingly active week at work! Early this week, I found out that my class is actually fully enrolled at 65 students!! This was way up from...
slow and steady week of nothing
November 8, 2025
work Not a lot happened at work this week. It was pretty mellow, which I think it is a bit of a clam before the pre-thanksgiving storm. Next week, I'll be...
relaxed and spooky week
November 1, 2025
work This was a very nice and relaxing week for me. I was able to make some marginal progress on research, apply for an Amazon research award, meet with an...
over the hump
October 25, 2025
work Made it halfway through the semester! This was a particularly crazy week for me, too. I gave a presentation on Monday to the ACC Seminar about Private...
adapting to the ramp up
October 18, 2025
work Most of my days this week were basically swamped. Monday, I flew back from San Diego, Tuesday/Thursday, I had back-to-back meetings almost all day, and...
more stable but busy
October 11, 2025
work My work week was surprisingly still busy despite the Eurocrypt deadline passing. I still have some projects that are getting pushed now, so that we have...
made the eurocrypt deadline
October 4, 2025
work I managed to get my Eurocrypt submission done! It was a pretty difficult last-minute push. Between school starting and other submissions, a lot of my...
a simple week
September 27, 2025
work This was maybe the most simple week I've had in a while work-wise. I was busy all week, because I'm pushing to finish a couple of papers early in...
moving to san diego
September 22, 2025
I've decided to stop including a "things i saw" section. This is mostly because I already have a public JSON feed with many things I go through online. It's...
staying sane through big changes
September 14, 2025
work Things at work are still pretty crazy. I still feel like all my projects kicked into high gear. With one of them, though, I think we've decided to just...
everything all at once
September 6, 2025
work I'm officially a tenure-track assistant professor!! I'm so excited to finally be officially work at Stevens. The campus is already buzzing with the new...
orientation at stevens
August 30, 2025
work I had my faculty orientation this week! I'm nervous and excited to start the new job. I'm a little worried there's going to be a lot for me to handle,...
slow but fun week
August 23, 2025
work I took it pretty slow this week. I did some writing on all of my projects and had a handful of meetings. But, mostly, I tried to take time to myself and...
another lazy summer week
August 16, 2025
work This week I mostly just got to do normal writing. The S&P rebuttals largely haven't come in, so I've been free to just work on the papers with upcoming...
counting down the days till work
August 9, 2025
work I managed to keep getting work done this week, though it slowed down toward the end. I canceled a few meetings, so I was mostly just focused on writing...
busy week but good
August 2, 2025
work This week was more packed than I had expected. I did more work on my S&P reviews, and I'm bracing for the R2 submissions to that conference, because I...
fun working week
July 26, 2025
work This week was particularly fun and productive. I was able to visit Google and Columbia, and I feel like I got a lot of useful work done every day of the...
hitting the ground running
July 19, 2025
I realized that as much as I like how bare-bones Leaflet is, the website has some weird bugs and honestly isn't very secure. Anyone with the URL could've...
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