Sunday, September 25, 2005

My Thesis: Visualization of Epidemic Spread

Magnus Boman is advisor and examinor for my Masters Thesis.. Basically I have 3 advisors from all over the places.. Magnus is "the advisor" from my department (DSV KTH/SU).

My other two advisors are Fredrik Liljeros and Mikael Stenhem. Mikael works at
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) and he is specialist on MRSA. Fredrik is social scientist with background in computer science. He listens to Mikael and then translate his requirements into "English" which poor computer scientists, like me, can understand.

Right now I am in phase 1 which concerns with development of early tool that Mikael and Fredrik can use. In phase 2 I will do detailed study on how the tool is used and how it can be improved (or replaced, if need arise). In phase 3 I will develop second version of this tool, based on my findings from phase 2.

I am using C/C++, Win32, ADO and DirectX 9 in Phase 1. I am doing development on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. and the coolest thing about my project is that I am doing lots of programming.

My thesis and my name on and page.

3 comments:

Jaywalker said...

So, the finish line is visible now? Mine is quite theoretical in nature, which sometimes depresses me as well :D

shaghab said...

no-programming was unacceptbale to me so i chose something atheoratical. and yes finish line is near and it's such a happy feeling :)

Judith Battaglia said...

I think having more than one advisor can really be a good idea. That way, you have more than one person to get thesis help if you face a blank wall. But, I think the problem you can face is that each person has their own opinions that sometimes can clash to each other.