My first week at the Drexel AIR Lab (Advanced Interactions Research). As it was my first week, I settled in at the lab and met the people I would be working with this summer. I started my research into fNIRS and working memory and I earned my CITI certification allowing me to work with human test subjects.
This day I met some of the people I would be working with this summer. I found and followed some tutorials on machine learning to begin forming a foundation for the area.
This day I began research mainly into the topics of fNIRS and Working Memory, but also some into machine learning in the application of use with fNIRS.
This day I read a lot of papers on the above topics and wrote a series of bulleted lists containing all knowledge I had gleaned from the papers I had read.
This day I attended a PhD thesis defense entitled "Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in the Investigation of Hemodynamic Changes During General Anesthesia", which is to detect when a patient is properly anesthetized using an fNIRS device and a trained model.
Afterward, I attended the lab's weekly meeting where we each are supposed to speak for ~2 minutes about what we did since the last meeting. Sometimes one person's part will take upwards of half an hour or more because the meeting doubles as problem-solving with the director. My part took two minutes, anyway.
Afterward, I began and got half-way through my CITI certification which I need because I will be working with human test subjects and with data collected from human test subjects.
This day I finished my CITI certification and wrote up an outline for what could be the experimental procedure.