I graduated !!

I got my Ph.D degree in Engineering on May 20, 2009.   Click on the picture for a Flickr album.

Ph.D defense

IJCNN’08 paper and slides

I presented the paper entitled “Sparse Kernel Models for Spectral Clustering Using the Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition” at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2008 (IJCNN’08) held in Hong Kong, China.

Hong Kong pictures

The pictures from Hong Kong are posted in the following Flickr album:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosalzate/sets/72157605536237589/

Photo gear

I bought two lenses and some photo stuff during my trip to Hong Kong.  Here’s my complete photo gear:

  • Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (400D)
  • Canon battery grip BG-E3
  • Sigma lens 17-70mm F/2.8-4.5
  • Sigma lens 28-70mm F/2.8-4.5
  • Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 II
  • Canon EF 75-300mm F/4-5.6
  • Canon infrared remote control RC-1
  • Tripod Jenova 92005 (not shown)

My new mighty mouse

The mighty snowball

P.D.  Snowball was not harmed during the process, actually he was quite comfortable.