{"id":674,"date":"2025-10-01T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/?p=674"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:30:30","slug":"welcome-to-academic-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/welcome-to-academic-year-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to academic year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have had a very busy summer working on the lab, needless to say i&#8217;ll be making a posting about that in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve already had my first meeting with my supervisors for the start of term. There is alot happening ! My first formal post graduate review will happen this term, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it, albeit I&#8217;m rather nervous at the same time. I have planned and rehearsed the expected Q&amp;A for my first review. I&#8217;m focused on explaning my research plan being a part-time student and how\/when things will be progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also signed up for research presentation in Bournemouth, I&#8217;m really hoping my topic gets selected for the poster event. I have been to several poster events on cryptanalysis and I&#8217;m excited by the opptunity to take questions and people ask me about my reasearch ! Hopefully I will get some good news in October if I will be doing my poster !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other work I have been really focusing on the day to day costs of running my lab, having been forced to use a smart meter, I&#8217;m now carefully monitoring how and when I use the cluster &#8211; having 4 Dell R720&#8217;s on 24*7 costs me about \u00a34 a day, and when I start throwing models to train and run on it, the costs go up, of course its far less than the cloud service providers would charge me for GPU access, so I&#8217;m just glad to have that service on tap at the home lab. I will be looking at more &#8216;DevOps&#8217; stuff in terms of power utilisation and processing scaling across the cluster wth graphana in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its a short post this time, just to let people know I&#8217;m still working very hard on my research and I&#8217;m still here !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to creating the next post, I think I&#8217;ll focus on the software defined radio and the chipwhisperer capture of AES traces in the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, thanks for reading the blog !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a very busy summer working on the lab, needless to say i&#8217;ll be making a posting about that in due course. I&#8217;ve already had my first meeting with my supervisors for the start of term. There is alot happening ! My first formal post graduate review will happen this term, and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanknipmeyer.phd\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}