This episode is a conversation with Ryan De Belen - a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia. Ryan and I went down the memory lane and chat about his journey from being an ECE student in UP Diliman to doing a Ph.D. researching how machine learning can be used in Autism research. 

In this episode we talk about: 

01:17 - What is Ry currently working on? 

2:28 - How he started from ECE in undergrad to working on projects in the biomedical field

4:49 - Why he chose to join Digital Signal Processing as undergrad lab in UP

8:26 - First job out of undergrad - working for a startup

12:24 - Going back to UP as a researcher

14:39 - The story behind getting his visa to Australia and first year

20:19 - Masters Research!

25:19 - Road to PhD 

30:19 - Advice to aspiring Ph.D. students in Australian universities

34:00 - PhD student life

40:27 - Collaborations and research

47:10 - Ry Reflects on his growth as an engineer and researcher

49:00 - Ending notes!

50:00 - (more general) Advice to aspiring PhD students and engineering undergrads