Before the 1st meeting with my group on 22nd August, on 21st august i invited Lei Yang, Yixiang, Robin and Zhang Xin to join the group. I wanted to work in a diverse group this semester. As the two Swiss guys were already part of group 1, i joined that group hoping it would be a new learning experience for me to work with Europeans. I wanted a mix of engineers and non-engineers in my group. But group 1 ended up having 7 engineers and 1 biologist (who is passionate about engineering).
The 1st meeting was quite interesting. I asked my fellow group members during the class if it is ok for them to stay back after the lecture so that we can have a get to know each other session. As ususal, i took the initiative to introduce the group members to each other. During their self introductions, I came to know that Lei Yang has some experience in BCI, Yixiang knew what an NP is, and Olivier and Ludovic were also aware of some MMIs. After some non-trivial discussion on MMIs, we decided to divide the group of 8 into 4 each for BCI and NP. The Swiss duo wanted to stay in the same sub-group but later decided to join BCI and NP respectively. Ni Jun and Zhan Liang were almost silent thru' the whole meeting. Next meeting is on 29th August at 1600hrs outside LT7A.
