Author Archives: Rui Chen

Imagine you are a beginner in something, you spend 10 hours and make great progress in it. You compare your current capability to 10 hours before, you feel so satisfied. You are so happy that you really want to share your progree with others. You know that you are better than most of the peopleContinue reading “You in the eye of yourself should be different from that of others”

And plan for the next step really fast.

CLEO (Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics) is one of the most important events in optics. During the conference, researchers working on optics present their excellent works to others to facilitate the exchange of ideas. There are many many exciting stuffs this year but the ones I want to write down here isn’t technical. Be collabrative.Continue reading “2021 CLEO thoughts”

One common phenomenon among the science or engineering graduate students, especially ones honored great achievements in their courseworks during undergrad, is feeling weak or lost after being a PhD student. This psychological effect can be attributed to several reasons(3 mentioned here), as far as I’m concerned though, the dominated reason is that we are soContinue reading “Feel strong when you are lost in science”

With the fast development of computational resources, we’ve seen the rise of the AI (artifitial intelligence, or neural networks) in various real world applications, including object recognition in self-driving cars, facial recognition for automated security, text generation and many other. As I’m in science and engineering field, the exciting thing about AI for me isContinue reading “The rise of artifitial intelligence and its applications in new generation science”

There is a well-known true argument, which is knowing the name of something doesn’t mean you truly know something. But this claim is too ignorant about the importance of knowing the name of something. From my point of view though, knowing the name of something is exactly the first step of truly knowing something. TheContinue reading “Opinion: the importance of name and the philosophy of learning”

I just posted my first Youtube learning seesion video about fundamentals of photonics. I hope I can really go through the book because it will surly be rewarding!