I am a Marie Curie PhD fellow and part of ITN WINDMILL as an early stage researcher (ESR) in CTTC Barcelona. We are working on the integration of machine learning algorithms in wireless communications networks. I am often contacted by students about my experience as an ESR and about Marie…

It’s usually a difficult phase for most undergraduate students after successfully completing their degree. It’s a phase where your fantasies meet reality — where you face the real world and it’s the time for you to get out of your comfort zone that you’ve probably developed during your studies at…

It’s been a few weeks that a representative of Swiss Embassy Pakistan, a lawyer perhaps, visited the family of a friend of mine who is living, working/studying here in Switzerland. Their family lives in Pakistan and they wanted to call their spouse to come live with them in Zurich. Now…

For higher studies or scholarship interviews, I often advise PhD or master degree aspirants to be confident and curious, and ask your interviewers the questions that are in your mind — not stupid questions though. Now this is a very general statement I have realized; and observed that many students…

There’s has been an incident recently in a cafe called Cannoli by Cafe Soul in Islamabad where two women, the owners of the restaurant, apparently — with some fake English accent — mocked their hotel manager and entertaining themselves because of his lack of ability to speak English. They made…