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title: '1:1 Meekail + Shannon'
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1:1 Meekail + Shannon
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###### tags: `Templates` `Meeting`

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- **Location:** Zoom
- **Date:** April 26, 2022 2:00 PM (UTC-4)
- **Agenda**
1. Review current semester progress `10min`
    - 5 SciPy submissions (4 cilia, 1 OrNet)
    - 2 Masters theses (Nathan completed, Curtis in progress)
    - Improved SE aspect of codebase
    - Developed potential basis for dissertation
2. Review state of Cilia grant overall `10min`
3. Decide template for Mentor-Mentee Compact (MMC)`5min`
	- [University of Alabama-Birmingham](https://grad.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/University-of-Alabama-Birmingham.pdf)
	- [University of Minnesota](https://grad.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/mentor-mentee_compact_UMN.pdf)
	- [University of Wisconsin-Madison](http://grad.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MentorshipAgreementTemplate.pdf)
4. Fill out MMC `15min`
5. Discuss future direction (summer/fall)
    - Discuss long-term (e.g. yearly) goals/markers

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## Current semester deliverables 

- [Github Repo](https://github.com/quinngroup/metric-vae)


:books: Active Papers/Manuscripts
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- Evolving Mixtures Prior (Bella, Sara)
- Metric Learning in VAEs (Nathan)
- Active Learning and Categorical Encoding (Curtis)
- Low-Level Feature Extraction for Cilia (Meekail, Eric)
- Nathan's Thesis
- Curtis's Thesis
- Benchmarks for OrNet (Rachel, Victoria, Delaney)

:mag: Spring Retro
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### What went right
- New paper-reading format where we tackle papers one caliber above what we would normally feel comfortable reading, then break it down as a group
    - Wildly positive reviews from team
    - Helped provide perspective and technical practice
    - Flawed in that 9/10 times the team wasn't able to discuss and answer questions themselves, ended up relying on me to answer and derive equations
- Stricter SE principles in github repo
    - Encouraged unit tests (helped a lot w/ design)
    - Mandated PR workflow (best decision)
    - Focused more on design principles (e.g. inheritence vs composition)
- Focused on *guiding* people to the right answers and solutions to technical problems, rather than outright *solving* them for them (mainly for Nathan/Curtis)
- Guided the masters students to develop common API for their projects so that they could benefit from each others code contributions
- Provided rigorous review for most aspects of projects: timelines, abstracts, manuscripts, code, etc.
### What went wrong
- Found myself stretched a bit thin, especially in the beginning of the semester
    - Attention split between two masters students and their elevated needs
    - Worked on allowing each student a unique project with a sense of ownership, but that also meant managing the technical and theoretical aspects of 3 projects
    - Worked on helping OrNet establish...any infrastructure
    - Worked on helping OrNet establish research direction (felt vindicated when our bio collaborators mentioned mitochondrial structure is edge-based, not blob-based)
    - Worked on training(?) the postdoc
    - Miscommunications and unalligned expectations with the postdoc burned **a lot** of energy
- Scheduling was difficult due to part-time job and leading:
    - Group project meeting (a lot of cross-module coordination was needed)
    - Group paper reading meeting
    - Individual module meetings (Nathan, Curtis, Bella/Sara)
    - Individual meetings with Sara
    - Group meetings for OrNet (Dr. Ojeme should have been running instead) 
    - Group paper reading meetings (Dr. Ojeme should have been running instead)
### What should/will change
- Team composition:
    - Bella, Sara, Rachel, Victoria, Delaney
- Meeting logistics
    - I will be in Kennesaw so I can only commute ~1 day/week



:closed_book: Tasks
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==Importance== (1 - 5)
### Development Team:
- [ ] ==5== Email invite
  - [ ] ==4== Email registration page
  - [ ] ==5== Email invitees
- [ ] ==4== Setup e2e test in production

### Design Team:
- [ ] ==4== Interview users
- [ ] ==5== Build roll-up display content
- [ ] ==5== Help user discover new features

:dart: Goals for Fall
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- Need to find potential venues (submissions ideally due in Spring)
    - [IJCAI](https://ijcai-22.org/calls-papers/): paper submission due ~Jan.
    - [ICML](https://icml.cc/Conferences/2022): paper submission due ~Jan.
    - [COLT](http://www.learningtheory.org/colt2021/index.html#important-dates): paper submission due ~Jan.
    - [CVPR](https://cvpr2022.thecvf.com/submission-timeline): paper submission due ~Nov.
    - [ICLR](https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2022/Dates): paper submission due ~Oct.

- Potential Papers
    - EMP with Riemannian metric
    - **EMP with human-in-the-loop training**
    - EMP with Categorical encoding
    - **Unitary-regularization**
## Notes 
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- Status of Web-Dev?
- SciPy poster deadline?

- [ ] Shannon
    - find full cilia data and put on Roci
    - spec out some way of interactively labeling data
        - Have Alireza build a napari interface?