An independent, unaffiliated PhD-level research journey in AI — self-directed across three phases: qualifier, preliminary exam, and defense.
Current Phase: Qualifier — exploring research areas, building fundamentals, making connections, and making early research attempts before committing to a direction.
This repo is writing-only: documentation, planning, research notes, and formal outputs. All code lives in separate repositories and is linked from here.
qualifier/ # Active — learning, paper notes, area exploration, early projects
preliminary/ # Future placeholder
defense/ # Future placeholder
network/ # Ongoing — researcher contacts, collaborations, outreach
publications/ # Ongoing — paper submission pipeline
visualization/ # Future — personal website and research showcase design
roadmap.md # Phase milestones, timeline, decision log
onenote.md # Quick-capture inbox for unclassified notes
Granular tasks are tracked in GitHub Projects (Issues/milestones).
High-level phase gates and decisions live in roadmap.md.