Year in Review - 2018
Summary: 2018 was a memorable year. For professional reason, as well as for personal reasons. I travelled a lot (mostly for academic conferences), I read a lot, I watched some good films and TV shows, and I also played some phenomenal video games.
Places Travelled
- Vienna - Austria
- Athens, Crete - Greece
- Sofia - Bulgaria
- London - United Kingdom
- Amstertan - Netherlands
- Budapest - Hungary
- Prague - Czechia
- Poznan - Poland
- Brussels - Belgium
- Monterey, San Jose, Tampa - USA
- Luxembourg City - Luxembourg
Papers Published
This was a phenomenal year for paper publications. There were a total of 17 publications (that's a lot!), with the following breakdown -
- Journal: 1 (first author)
- Conference: 4 (3 first author, 1 co-author)
- Workshop: 9 (6 first author, 3 co-author)
- Poster: 3 (3 first author)
The full list of publications can be read at - https://harshp.com/research/publications/
Notable Events
- I participated as part of Team Lexparency (comprised of the awesome Martin Heimsoth and myself) for the EU Datathon 2018 wherein we won the first prize in Challenge 2 - Legal.
- My poster won the Best Poster award at the Workshop on Ontology Design Pattersn (WOP) at ISWC 2018.
Books Read
I read a total of 69 books, which is the most I have read in any year of my life. I tried to diversify the reading by including more variety in terms of topics and non-fiction. I've kept a record of the books I read on Goodreads, with the ones I read in 2018 at link.
2019
My plans for 2019 are nothing extravagant.
- I want to read 100 books this year.
- I want to watch more movies, at least 4 each month in the cinema.
- I want to play more indie games.
- I want to get back to creative writing - and to try and publish something I've already written.
- I want to get back into photography.
- I'm going to learn Italian this year.
- Academically: I'm going to write and finish my thesis this year. I'm going to try and submit 2 journal papers, 4 conference papers, and have all my past publications as open access in a native web format.