Update -

It's been some time since my last post. Many things have happened in the meantime:

• I interned at ecoATM, in San Diego -

The company focuses on the dormant market composed of the multiple phones that each of us has, lying around the house, unused. When a customer brings the phone to an ecoATM kiosk, a few pictures are snapped and processed to recognize which brand/model/condition it is in, then hands out cash. The phones are then auctioned off to resellers for parts or as is, and shipped out.
A full blog is dedicated to the work I did their for their computer vision algorithm, but unfortunately it's confidential. A few "customers" have adopted "adversarial behaviors" and managed to extirpate money out of the kiosks, so ecoATM won't let me talk about their recognition system. The work I did addressed these issues though.

• I graduated from UCSD!

First graduation ever (there are no graduation ceremonies in France, and the recent initiatives to establish some have been... lame). Finally got my ECE diploma, with a custom focus in Computer Vision. Definitely one of the most American things I've done so far (along with watching College football and WWE Monday Night Raw).

• I moved to Pittsburgh for grad school!

After much consideration and debate (mainly between Columbia and CMU) I decided to go to Carnegie Mellon University. My major is ECE, int he CIT (Carnegie Institute of Technology), but I'm crossing over to take some classes in the CS department - mainly Machine Learning courses.
Taking all the graduate Computer Vision courses at UCSD my senior year played out nicely - I can now focus on ML here at Carnegie Mellon.
The university has been great so far - the curriculum features so many interesting classes, I feel like taking so many of them. There are tons of social, technical, recruiting events happen every day. I don't think I've cooked anything in the last 2 weeks - I've been eating for free by going to a few talks. The Job fair was insane: so many tech companies and startups showed up, all eager to recruit CMU students. I had an interview this very morning with Microsoft. I'd love to do something in Computer Vision with the Microsoft Research team! Maybe work on the next Photosynth?
Fingers crossed.