Team Activities and Proud Moments

2023

• January:
  • Seda and Linnet Taylor conducted interviews with very exciting candidates for the algosoc postdoc position.

• February:
  • Donald, Thijmen, and Seda were joined by others from the iDair project to conduct interviews with experts in mobile health. We learn together how to organize and conduct interviews.

• March:
  • Seda, Donald and Thijmen conducted a session with Choolwe Muzyamba and Nina Technow on conceptions of privacy in preparation of their field work in Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire.

• April:
  • Machiel, Thijmen and I started working on our infrastructure with Tobias Fiebig.
  • Agathe joins our team officially as an almost postdoc researcher. Agathe, Donald and Seda start working on machine learning as operational systems.

• May:
  • We kicked off the study group under the leadership of Machiel, and together with Corinne, Donald, Thijmen, Agathe, Femke and Aggeliki. The results will be used to revamp the Syllabus.

• June:
  • Corinne Cath joined our team as a postdoc! Among other things, she will be working on the algosoc project.
  • PIP Team visited the TITIPI Headquarters in Brussels for a study session

• July:
  • We joined Frauke Kreuter, Anna-Carolina Naensch, Sarah Ball, Daniel Anadria (algosoc) to discuss Leo Breiman's piece titled Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures

• August:
  • Some vacationed, others started an internship, others recovered their health, others made progress on theses and we all united again in September.

• October
  • Agathe defended her PhD Thesis
  • Thijmen officially kicked off his thesis, with Donald as his daily supervisor, Seda, Michel and Mark de Reuver as the rest of his committee.
  • Donald had a successful two year review of his PhD thesis!

• November:
  • Seda joined a BAC committee to conduct the final round of interviews fo candidates for the Programmable Infrastructure Tenure Track position.

• December:
  • Seda taught at the winter school of the algosoc project a session based on the edri report by Agathe and Seda
  • We received news that Nishant Shankar has joined the Center for Internet Society in Delhi, India.

2024

• January:
  • PIP Team goes to Privacy Camp 2024 with panels "Down with datacenters" lead by Corinne and Fieke Jansen and "Privacy is Big Business" lead by Donald and Thijmen

• February:
  • PIP Team Retreat will take place in Brussels
  • We hope to launch our project website and get to a final draft of the syllabus.

• April:
  • Bernd Kasparek will join the PIP team as a tenure track professor!
  • TPM030a Introduction to Cloud as Infrastructure will take place again.