🤔 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐞? 🤷‍♂️ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐌𝐞?In your career, you’ll regularly hit moments where your confidence doesn’t match everyone else’s.🤔 “Why Me?” Someone suggests nominating you for an award - and you think, “No way I’m worthy...

Time for an update on #ArtificialIntelligence, from my personal perspective in a professional context: my continued exploration of its intense usage in a day-to-day career (2 and a bit years and counting).Key concepts include:🧠

😩 Are you regularly stressed out, feel like you're in over your head, and wondering how you ended up working at 2 am on a Monday morning to meet a project deadline?You're not alone: I, and much of academia and research, have regularly fo...

🥣 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐫, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 🥄 OR💼 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲!I thought a little bit about sending the wrong messaging with this image thumbnail (referencing Oliver Twist) about power dynamics, any ...

The Goldilocks Zone is the just-right distance from a star 🌞 where a planet can sustain liquid water 💧 - not too hot, not too cold, but ideal conditions for the possibility of life to exist 🌱.The Goldilocks zone is also one of three "con...

What would I tell my younger self at the point I was starting my leadership journey? 🤔👣That's the topic of today's Hacking Academia video 🎥 – I like to do the more philosophical ones on a Friday afternoon! 🧘‍♂️🌤️I, like most peopl...

🎲 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 🎲I've been wanting to do this video for a while now, and thanks to Maceon Knopke's lovely 3D printed dice, here it is!This is also my 50th 🎂 Hacking Academia video 🎉🎉🎉 !!!A ...

LiDaR versus CamerasThe recent "Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?" video by YouTuber Mark Rober has 17.5 million views [1], is generating a lot of buzz, and is already the subject of a number of counter- and critique videos [2].I...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦: 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦The Australian Research Ecosystem is the subject of at least two major reviews, that could result in the biggest change to how things like grants are assessed and enacted.

🚖 200,000 paid robotaxi rides per week! 🤖 Humanoid robots starting to roll out in larger-scale customer trials!The surge in excitement, interest, and investment in humanoid as well as general AI + robot plays is reachin...

Friday afternoon story time 🎉🍷🤔One of the most pivotal stages of my early professional (and for the financial and other benefits, personal) life was writing my first maths "textbook", Not a C Minus, at age 18, and establishing my first ...

I've long maintained a webpage [1] that details what a #PhD is really like on a day to day basis in #robotics or related fields and in the Australian PhD system, but a lot of potential students we interact with like to hear us talk it through v...

Rejection *always* sucks... but how it sucks evolves...After a brutal start to the year in terms of rejection after rejection, I wanted to post a Hacking Academia video on the nature of rejection, and how it can evolve, in a professional...

A #PhD can be an amazing journey for many, but it's also inevitably a time of significant struggle(s). What that struggle is can take a near-infinite variety of forms, from health issues to relationship breakups, and from home sickness to menta...

It's Friday afternoon, #CVPR2025 rebuttals are almost done thanks to amazing colleagues, and I have a massive backlog of #HackingAcademia topics to get to, both requested and from my own list.So the first 2025 Hacking Academia video (an...

All #PhD recruitment approaches vary by professor, but there are some common themes that are fairly typical throughout.In my newest #HackingAcademia video I shed some light on the #PhD candidate shortlisting and interview process we cur...

Last week at the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2024) in Abu Dhabi, Cyrill Stachniss and I were invited to give a tutorial on "Writing Papers People Love to Read" by Julie Stephany Berrio Perez on...

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It's Friday, and, given my life currently, it's a great time to talk about pushing to, and beyond, your limits, and managing as best you can the associated risk of burnout.For a while now, and likely for a while into the future, my prof...

It's late on a Friday afternoon here in Brisbane, so it's time for a fun story about a prank my PhD labmates played on me two decades ago, and how it unexpectedly led to my most highly cited and awarded research work. 📚🤓At the time, I w...

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚!!! 👀📚The concept of success rates (and by extension, rejection rates) is something that comes up a lot in research and academia. 🎓Grant schemes and publicatio...

Of all the advice that is dispensed in academia, one of the most varied is about whether you should focus narrowly and deeply, or diversify and broaden your repertoire.The reason for this variety of suggested approach is of course, circ...

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