Journal
Documenting my learning and experiences.
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Engineering Journal
Jul 9, 2026
15 min read
The Story Behind FinMind: From Crumpled Receipts to an AI Financial Assistant
A personal journal about how frustration with manual expense tracking grew into FinMind—an AI-powered financial assistant. This story covers the ideas, failures, breakthroughs, engineering decisions, and lessons I learned while building my most ambitious software project as a final-year engineering student.
#finmind#engineering-journal#software-engineering#artificial-intelligence#ocr#vector-search#semantic-search#personal-finance#student-project
Research
Jun 27, 2026
10 min read
Publishing My First Springer Research Paper: The Story Behind WorkExperio
A behind-the-scenes look at how our final-year engineering project evolved into a Springer publication. This article shares the inspiration behind WorkExperio, my contributions to the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning components, the research journey, key lessons learned, and the experience of publishing at SmartCom 2026.
#springer#research#artificial-intelligence#machine-learning#student-research#smartcom#academic-publication#software-engineering#engineering#workexperio