In a couple of hours I will be heading off to Southampton for the last time (well, for now at least) for my graduation ceremony tomorrow morning. I\u2019m really excited, but enough about that for now \u2013 I\u2019ll write a full blog on it later once it\u2019s actually happened!<\/p>\n
Instead, today I just plan to fill you in on various things that have happened since finishing my exams. Straight afterwards I went to Scotland with my family for a first proper break in ages! We climbed to the top of Ben Nevis and then later in the week spent some time exploring Edinburgh. After this though, it was back to Southampton, and back to work! Not what you might have expected for a just-finished student, but it was for exciting reasons so I\u2019m not going to complain. You may remember me posting about the stroke-rehabilitation Kinect project my group worked on for our Master\u2019s Project. Well, our supervisor deemed the work was so ground-breaking that it was worth us writing up properly with the intention of publishing in a top-quality IEEE journal! Very exciting for a group of students to get this opportunity, but it just goes to show the quality of cutting-edge research that you can get involved in at ECS even whilst you\u2019re still an undergraduate. We\u2019ve now got a good start on this, and will be collaborating with our initial customers too (Roke Manor Research and the Department of Health Sciences at the University), but there\u2019s plenty more work still to do!<\/p>\n
Aside from this, I\u2019ve been keeping myself busy, first as a trainer at a conference in Germany for a week and then last week delivering a presentation at the UKESF Summer School in Cardiff, for Sixth Formers interested in electronics. I now have exciting plans in place for the rest of the summer too, with trips to the Netherlands and Russia coming up shortly.<\/p>\n
Right, Southampton here we come \u2013 expect to see lots of hat-tossing pictures soon! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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