On the 12:th of June I participated in the Committee for the PhD defence by Daniel Witschard, entitled "Using Multiple Embeddings for Visually Guided Text Similarity Analysis" at the Linnaeus University in Växjö.
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Presentation at University College London
I had the privilege to present my research about face age estimation at a two day (22 & 23 May 2025) EB-CRIME conference in London, hosted by the Department of Security and Crime Science, of UCL one of the top 10 universities in the word. The title was "The Face of Time – Reading Time … Continue reading Presentation at University College London
Visit to the Royal Library in Stockholm
I had the pleasure to be invited by a master thesis student to meet with several people, including the supervisor, at the Royal Library (KB) in Stockholm at Garnisonen. We discussed both OCR and HTR as well as Face Recognition. I appreciate very much the open and friendly attitude and hope to be able to … Continue reading Visit to the Royal Library in Stockholm
InfraVis Days
I spent two days up in Sundsvall 19-20/3 2025, meeting with the other people in InfraVis for the InfraVis Days. We were invited to many inspiring talks and lots of interesting discussions in the coffee pauses.
How do you manage the challenge of being involved in multiple research projects simultaneously?
I was advised to divide my week into chunks based on the percentage of research time allocated to each project. However, this approach doesn’t work for me for several reasons. First, I would never reach the level of deep focus needed to fully engage with the problem. Second, frequent context switching would consume a significant … Continue reading How do you manage the challenge of being involved in multiple research projects simultaneously?
Anders Hast 