Finding a research topic (or being found by a research topic?)
summary
Chronicles a research path that starts with an undergraduate project on the compfish framework and evolves through four years of co-algebra, a postdoc building a co-camel extension to OCaml, a funded team of five to six people, and a verification paper that lands at SIGCOMM (verification of metrics). Advises choosing supervisors for empathy plus network and setting concrete deadlines to pivot; recommends early hand‑held problems with known solutions (about nine months) to learn deep, new fields.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:29My research journey
- 3:54My first research project
- 11:47How did I choose my research topics
- 17:22The steps
- 26:26Supervisors
- 26:41Collaborators
- 28:21Students
- 29:52Community
- 30:56Reflections
- 32:25Style
- 34:26Wrong
- 35:48Questions
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