Greetings,

after strolling in this "PhD school", i realize many topics are not directly nor related to PhD. Only few topics really make sense. So may i know how many ppl here actually doing PhD? may i know in which university and your research interest? So that, we could actually discuss PhD topics and your research topics and hereby make this thread more "reliable" source for graduate students and for those interested to do PhD in future.

cheers


btw, if im not mistaken, Bro azriamy is a PhD holder in Education. am i right?

owh, so its just a catchy name. Well my bad then.


@highwind85, architecture? cool, yeah now i do remember he mentions about archie stuff. Well for me, im just recently doing my PhD in Nottingham Malaysia, my focus is on Artificial Intelligence. Gonna use Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) or Kalman Filtering, basically i will use these methods to predict disaster before it happens. My focus more on landslides and concrete structures (deformations on concrete structures like what happened in MRR2). Basically will use those method to monitor and predict when the disaster will struck so we could warn the community.

Well that a brief about my topic. Hopefully if anyone have related topics, we could discuss about it.

and yes, i would like to know about other ppl research interest as well, what they doing, how they gonna do it and such. =)

btw does anyone have motivational movie suggestion? sometimes its really easy to get de-motivated when doing phd. haha

That is cool man, from few reading on net, it seems there is two way for protein engineering? rational design and directed evolution. So correct me if im wrong, u are currently working on directed evolution to mimics rational design way of working?

Im abit blur on these, hahaha im pretty bad with bio n chem. But your topic sounds cool, d purpose is to improve enzyme properties for antibiotic resistance right? So far how your PhD man? Im gonna admit, im kinda stuck at Kalman Filtering for a month here, doing matlab codes on my own, to work with multidimensional Kalman Filtering. Sigh sometimes, well not sometimes, most of d times, i feel kinda noob and stupid. lolz my frens sed, its normal in PhD life, u will always feel like an idiot when learn about some new stuff, and when no one around to teach, its easy to be misled if reading materials are not sufficient (which is in my case) haha.

Hahah im in abit blur state when u describing your stuff there, i quite understand abit here and there, but not the full thing. But it sounds awesome bro!


Monah university? lolz another prank here? hehe Monash Uni rite? i been there for a Chess tournament, few few years back

hahah, i understand that "popular" situation...my prof could consider one of the popular one, but he has around 13 PhD students under him (full time and part time) So most of the time i felt like left out. Hahaha plus it seems he attracted more to girls project jk jk


Lonely world of PhD..agree on this.. mainly bcoz u do your stuff which not many ppl in the world doing it.. and when u talk to ppl, if get into d details it seems nobody could understand u.. haha an advantage/disadvantage depends on which view u look at it. Well for promotions? i would say erk...to what level u will be promote? haha Dr->Prof? for chicks? well i dont think bimbo girls will fall into u, however u will attract the sophisticated and smart girls most of d time

my reason is, i done internship in my first , second and final year in uni, 3 summer breaks and with 3 different company...what i can say.. im not really into working world..its easily get pretty boring for me..plus i dont like d 9am-5pm time line, haha for PhD/Lecturer or research, u can come whenever u want as long u get ur work done! haha most of d times, ideas come out when im in the field playing football or when i hanging out with my frens, stressing out infront of the table wont do for me. hehe

Plus i like uni life style, however its pretty sad..coz u see every year your frens graduating and u still at uni with ppl much younger than u..can call him adik already. (im not that old, 23 only =P ). However good side is, u can see many fresh and hot chicks every year, horray! hehe

This post has been edited by spikyz: Jun 6 2010, 08:08 PM

VMSmith may i know much about your field of study?

Depends lolz, overqualified staff sometimes is super cool =) btw i think PhD is cool, coz u can build your own consultant company, where u can be d boss and do what u want, what u like in stuff u really good at =)

Mobile robots, cool. For what type of purposes? and is there any specific algorithm used?

meaning by using vision of the robot? using camera eh? my fren doing about the same thing. His project name is WALL-E (true story). haha

Dont worry dude, im stuck at my codes as well, a month or so, and d best part, last meeting my prof ask me to do something which i have done before and like nullify my current work. hahahha

btw my advise, i just finish dl "homeless to harvard", it will help with ur morale

@exsaga, i will be using Support Vector Machine as well =)


Bro hidan? why are u butthurt? dont u see, ppl start discussing about their phd stuff here? and for example exsaga , VMSmith and me have something in common in algorithm? which soon we will be discussing and this is PhD topic nway.

p/s: i feel sorry for your kind of mindset bro hidan =)

yup beautiful mind is a good movie. Scary one as well since i think he telling d truth n gov makes him look like crazy to deny the facts ;p

yup. Kernel, svm lines and such. However currently im using kalman filter. Perhaps by next month or two i will use svm.

Hopefully a partnership with someone who good at business? haha, yup im agree we need to have other skills. But what im trying to say, many of prof i know, have a consultancy firm, either their own or a partnership with a businessman. So that is the answer for d most common question ppl ask to a phd holder "do u want to become a lecturer?", actually there is alot of option other than being a lecturer. =)



btw @zstan, i feel stupid everyday, haha reading new topic or new journals, sometimes make me feel very noobbb..

Well, im under Faculty of Engineering actually, under AI department. I cant remember d full name dat my prof used to describe the department, haha


Thats reasearch right? u tot u got something, then another challenge coming in, over n over. Sometimes it is fun , but most of d time its annoying and demotivating, haha but at the end of d day, i like "playing" this game.

Me, my funding is from NSF (MOSTI), well.. i kantoi biasiswa Agong last year, i think d interviewer really hates me. seriously, and she even know my prof, so during the interview she kinda badmouth my prof alil bit and tease here and there, aih screw them la.

Sweet and sour at the same time bro, haha nway how ur MSc summer project =)?

Well, not sure about that thou. my panel last time is, one datin from SIRIM, very high ranking wan (this is d one dat keep attacking me), den got another 2 fella from which uni i cant remember.

I tot its under CS as well, ahah but yeah my project, i can say AI is main part, but i do have alot of other main part belong to engineering as well =)

Sorry, quite bz lately, only now realize so many topics discussed here.

Well, i think for my uni, u must finish ur phd in 4 years time for full time. 2-3 years is minimum, if im not mistaken. Still blur about the concept thou.
about study, yeah, read alot of journals, Google scholar quite helpful, i cant imagine how ppl before the birth of internet do their phd, must be quite hard to find books and journals. Need to use university library and inter-loan or something.
Im 24 this year, hopefully can get my phd in 2-3 years time =)


I think if you manage money properly, u can buy a property, lets say u are NSF scholar with 2.3k monthly allowance, buying a small apartment around 100k, i think will cost u around RM700 per month? so u still have 1.6k for cars and food. Well, for me..im looking for one property as well, so lurking around property talk in lowyat.net to learn more. I think u can buy a house and a car with allowance, but perhaps no gf? lolz no money to pay for another half of u =P

yup, my senior in nottingham, just finish his phd and become a lecturer here, he mentioned gaji is around 5-6k. quite good i think.


If u guys have a kids in the future, enroll them in o-levels and a-levels after that. skip spm. haha, one of my fren, much younger than me, i think he is around 22 now? doing PhD at Cambridge.. damn jealous man. haha

yeah, perhaps you are right, in bio-related, we can see even the degree is minimum 5 years right?

btw, i think, NSF (MOSTI) will sponsor phd students maximum 3 years only?

Tempoh Pembiayaan Biasiswa NSF
a. Ijazah Sarjana - maksimum 24 bulan
b. Ijazah Kedoktoran - maksimum 36 bulan

taken from here http://ehcd.mosti.gov.my/ehrd/nsf.php

Thats the downside eh? they should be flexible with these stuff. If the students meet the criteria and requirements, why not?

Post doc is minimum 6months right? i would like to do post doc as well, somewhere in UK perhaps. Since all my study years in Nottingham Malaysia only. =(

btw any of u going for MIT Accenture Lecture series this 24th July? Im going =)

Hahah, ok guys, so back to the main purpose of this thread, may u guys introduce yourself, what research u guys doing and all that? perhaps i can modify d first post, so we will have a list of research done by our fellow lyn

Fifi85, there is a reason why not all the ppl in d world have PhD right?

if it is that easy, everyone will have it.

all phd courses are quite hard =)

agreee, is not something like u study in ur ipta/ipts, pay d money and u in. They are tight requirement before u get in. If u dont use ur brain, i think u cant even pass your foundation, so pls stop saying u dont want to use brain but want to get phd, its downgrading and insulting.
Somehow i feel, fify85 is actually trolling in here..