Every now and then I perform a Google search with my name: “Mario Berges”, to see what comes out. I rarely find things that I did not already know about but some times, and just some times, there are some interesting results. For instance, there was the time I discovered that someone with my name had been found dead in Uruguay.
Today, not knowing exactly what to write about here, I again googled my name and found a flyer promoting a book for which I had written a chapter last year. The book is apparently coming out in December this year, and reading my name in the list of “experts and pioneers” made me laugh. Click on the image to check out the flyer:
Embedded Commissioning of Building Systems
One of the journal articles that a few colleagues and I submitted this year, was recently published. To promote the special issue of the journal, the publisher decided to make a press release featuring two of the articles in it (one of which, was ours). Seeing how the press release gets written/produced and the effect it has, firsthand, has been interesting.
I still can’t get used to the fact that I’m being referred to as “Dr. Berges”, but I guess it’s better than the alternative (Dr. Mario). In any case, the thing is that I now know a little bit more about how sites like PhysOrg and ScienceDaily get part of their news and I can say that it is somewhat similar to how PhD Comics explains it:
What’s not included in this diagram is time. It can take months or even years to go from one step to the next, and most research doesn’t even get past the first step (which doesn’t mean that it’s not worthy of news!) because, as another PhD comic points out, some topics are more likely to be picked up by the news media.
Here are the links:
This is likely going to be a constant battle. I told myself I would update my resume as soon as I finished anything worth including in it. Yeah, right. Last time I made any changes was probably 6 months ago, even though there were many things to add to it.
One of the obstacles to updating it more frequently is that I have to update an HTML and a LaTeX file (HTML for the webiste, LaTeX for the proper Curriculum Vitae in PDF format). I have thought of ways in which I could combine both things, but have yet to come up with a simple solution that does not require more than one hour to implement. Suggestions on this are welcome.
The publication list is now upated, as well as the list of talks, etc. One of latest additions to the publication list is a paper that we submitted to this year’s BuildSys workshop and recently learned that it was accepted. The workshop is on “embedded sensing systems for energy-efficiency in buildings” and, even though this is only its second year, last year’s papers were pretty decent and the topics that were covered are well aligned with the things that I have been doing lately.
In the list of talks I added a link to a video (~200 MB file) of the talk I gave recently for the Seminar Series of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department here at CMU. It summarizes some of the things I did for the thesis:
There is an article about our electricity monitoring project on the latest issue of the Carnegie Mellon Engineering Magazine. The direct link to the PDF that contains the article is here:
Two minor things to note:
- They quoted me saying “desegregation“, when I actually said “disaggregation“. After looking up the definition of the former, it’s not awfully far.
- The article, in the third paragraph, somewhat overestimates the time we’ve spent working on this (e.g., I haven’t been here 4 years yet).