Qualifying exam

Qualifying exam oral defense is the one that has been running in the background of my mind for the past few months. This has taken way too long for me. The usual limitation for QE is 24 months from the start of the PhD. I lost around six months researching on Microelectronics before shifting to computational intelligence. So with 1.5 years i had to complete the necessary research work to give a QE. My prof seems to be a bit skeptical about this part still. Even after having 2 IEEE conferences and one submitted with one journal submitted, the QE defense still seems to take a longer time. Hopefully i would give it by this February middle. Hope everything goes fine here.

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