Category: Personal Thoughts
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Meeting an Old Friend in Tech

Last week, I caught up with a friend since middle school, who was visiting Philadelphia for a large language model (LLM) conference. He now works in tech, having been pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. in natural language processing (NLP) and computer sciences at Carnegie Mellon and The University of Washington and is interning at Meta.…
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A Few Lessons I Learned from My Ph.D. Program

A journey toward a Ph.D., as one may realize, could sometimes be harder than anticipated. There can be many ups and downs, some of which are intellectual and others emotional. There are also plenty of good things that can be found along the road. I have made it through my own journey by savoring my…
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Transition to a Pharma Clinical Statistician – What I Have Learned So Far

It has been close to three weeks since I have onboarded with my employer, Incyte Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. What have I learned so far as a working clinical statistician and how it feels different from the academia? This article explains my findings and my thoughts,