My New Update
Who I am?
My name is Mohammed El Amine MOKHTARI, and I am from Algeria. I am currently residing in France. I recently completed my master’s degree in computer vision and work as an online content creator.
In this article, I’ll tell you a little bit about myself and give you a quick overview of what I’m going to do with my life from now on.
So, as I previously stated, I recently completed my master’s degree in computer vision. My final project involved using U-Net to automatically segment tumors throughout the body. The project was not easy because it was difficult to create a single model that could segment all of the tumors at the same time. As a result, we are unable to locate a cutting-edge project comparable to this one. You may notice that they only do segmentation in one organ because it produces more modest results; otherwise, it is very difficult. And most of the papers I found in the state of the art used a single method, which consists of segmenting the organ first, then the tumor from the organ, which is very helpful in this case. But, because I had patients with tumors all over the body, I couldn’t use this principle for my project.
That was a brief description of my project. It was a great idea to use deep learning for medical images (but it was not easy at all hahaha).
What should I do next?
Now, let me tell you about what I plan to do after finishing my master’s degree. I applied for nearly 50 PhD positions and applied to a few job offers. Because I wasn’t sure whether I should pursue a PhD or start a regular job at first. But after a while, I realized that I wanted to do a PhD so that I could learn more about the fundamentals and mathematical meanings of deep learning because I knew that if I started a normal job, I would have projects that I needed to finish on time, so I would always copy and paste code without understanding what I was doing. However, by pursuing a PhD, I will be able to delve deeper and answer all of the questions that I have in mind.
Here’s a small screenshot of the Notion table I was using to save all of the PhD descriptions I was applying to. (I began applying almost two months before completing my master’s internship.)
80% of them did not even respond, but I did not give up and continued to apply and pass interviews until I completed my master’s degree. I was disappointed that I did not receive a PhD, but ElHamdulillah, I eventually received a linkedIn message informing me that there is a PhD position available if I am interested. Of course, I said, just tell me what your project is and what you intend to do. So when I saw the project description, I thought it was an interesting project and I liked it right away.
The goal of the project is to develop a security system that detects danger, anomaly, etc. using drones.
So, after 2 weeks, I passed an interview in which I talked about myself and what I am capable of doing, and they explained their project to me in detail, and then I received a message saying that I had been accepted. It was the best day of my life, and just thinking about it made my skin shiver hahaha.
So I’m writing this article to tell you about the accomplishment that I received last month, and I’ll be sharing with you all of the steps that I will take during my PhD, as well as the technical resources and papers that I will use to complete my project.
Where You Can Find Me?
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Thank you for reading, and see you in the next article:)
