Checklist

Professional

• Get a job I enjoy doing.
• Publish 5 papers.
• Get a bigger office.
• Get paid vacations.
• Pass Ph.D. Year 3 assessment
• Reach 50 peer reviews for IEEE Access (47 recorded during 2024–2026)
• Complete the second Fukushima task
• 1 Million USD

Project Ideas

• A robot that follows you around.
• An ML assistant that changes responses based on your moods.
• Water-finding robots.
• AI that converts any book into an illustrated novelette.
• Deploy a variable-autonomy mobile-manipulator demo in a real lab.
• Live trivia game with an AI voice host (mobile app).
• LLM-powered decommissioning planning assistant.

Personal

• Start making a checklist.
• Find happiness.
• Cook something with the person I love the most.
• Do something fun with the love of my life.
• Find my dream.
• Get married.
• Get a bachelor’s degree. –> (I’m a mechatronics engineer)
• Buy my first house.
• Get my dream home.
• Get a master’s degree. –> (I’m a computational neuroscientist and cognitive roboticist)
• Get a PhD.