Today I had my first day at UC Berkeley in Dawn Song's group and I must say that it was quite an intensive day! Most of the time went into going through all the bureaucratic processes here at Berkeley. I always thought that ETH Zurich was bad, but the …
read moreAn expats start as a security postdoc at UC Berkeley
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This post covers our first two weeks in Berkeley, California and includes our struggles to find reasonable housing, a car, pitfalls with Visa requirements, how to get a driving license, and generally how to start a new life in the …
Academic careers or how to become a professor.
Summary: Have a vision. Stay foolish.
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On May 11th 2011 the VMI (the organization of the scientific staff at the CS department at ETH Zurich where I'm currently the president) organized an informational event on how to start and how to structure your academic career. If you are pursuing …