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JSPS Invitational Fellowships
Alhamdulillah, I am thrilled and grateful to be awarded the prestigious and competitive JSPS Invitational Fellowship to undertake research at Hokkaido University with Professor Katsuaki Konishi for 10 months.
It is definitely a kind of once-in-...
Post · December 22, 2023
My reaction to an internal conflict in the German GWUP concerning Matauranga Maori
Post · December 21, 2023
Miroma Bunbilla program mentor
I was one of the mentors for the Miroma Bunbilla Program, a pre-entry pathway to the Joint Medical Program, designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. The program ran over 5 days and included problem-based and group-based learn...
Post · December 21, 2023
Can computer science help climate policy making?
Nicola Botta and I have a talk slot at "Programming for the Planet (PROPL)" with the following abstract:
The rational of the workshop is that, to tackle the crises induced by CO_2 emissions, we need to translate “a wealth of new data about our na...
Post · December 14, 2023
Best Owlstown Website Award
Reflecting on the 2023 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest
A Personal Journey and Collective Achievement
I had the incredible honour of being one of the winners in the 2023 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest. It's a moment I'm keen to sh...
Post · December 14, 2023
A Day of Cultural Immersion and Learning at Saltwater National Park with TIDE and Uncle John
Our team had the enriching experience of visiting Saltwater National Park and engaging with the Taree Indigenous Development & Enterprise (TIDE). The highlight of our visit was yarning with Uncle John, a respected Biripi elder, whose stories and w...
Post · December 14, 2023
How to Predict the Temperature of Any Future Day Using Time-Series (Prophet Model and Django Backend)?-A Beginner-Friendly Guide
In an earlier post, we learned how to fetch data from a source (OpenMeteo) and make some decisions based on how hot or cool the source and destination are. Last week, I was assigned with another extension of the problem -
Train a simple model t...
Post · December 13, 2023
How to Do Periodic Tasks in a Django REST API Using Celery and Redis? - A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Today, I want to share how to solve an interesting problem I recently encountered. I was a noob to this and had to come across some concepts I had never encountered before. Here is the problem statement:
Create an API where you take your frien...
Post · December 13, 2023