Last updated: 21 Nov, 2024.
Sept 10, 2024
We moved to Pittsburgh, PA from Baltimore, MD
After our return from the UK and Oindrila’s successful PhD defense, we moved to a new city for new adventures. Oindrila got a postdoc offer at the University of Pittsburgh while Aniruddha continued to remotely work at a startup. The move was somewhat smooth, although we had very few days to pack and leave after our UK trip and it did feel impossible at times! But we made it! We are excited for new adventures but also a little sad and we will miss our friends in Maryland! Now is the time that we await Oindrila’s F1-OPT approval and then the actual work authorization EAD card. Fingers crossed!
15-29 Aug, 2024
Our first UK trip
After Oindrila defended her PhD dissertation we went on a 2-week long trip to the UK. We visited Manchester, Edinburgh and London and met with Oindrila’s cousins and Aniruddha’s grandparents (Pishi dadu-dida).
09 Aug, 2024
Oindrila – PhD in Environmental Engineering.
Oindrila successfully defended her PhD dissertation on ‘Development and Optimization of Passive Sampling Methods for Surface Water and Sediment Porewater Measurements of Freely Dissolved Concentrations of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants‘. We had a little party afterwards to celebrate the completion of a 6 year long journey as well as her 31st birthday!
23 May, 2024
Aniruddha’s EAD card (STEM-OPT) received!
Aniruddha finally received his work authorization EAD card (STEM-OPT extension) after a 4.5 months wait! He was a little emotional. 😉
24 May, 2023
Aniruddha’s graduation ceremony!
Witnessed Aniruddha’s success as his family and felt immensely proud of the person he has evolved to become! We celebrated his achievements as a son, a husband and a friend and a student of science through sheer hard work and perseverance.
15 May-04 Jun, 2023
Aniruddha’s parents’ second visit to the US.
We were hosting our parents, as a married couple, once again in Maryland, and this time we were excited for Aniruddha’s upcoming graduation ceremony!
18 Nov, 2022
Aniruddha – PhD in Computer Science.
Aniruddha successfully defended his PhD dissertation on ‘Backdoor Attacks in Computer Vision: Towards Adversarially Robust Machine Learning Models‘. We celebrated with a quiet dinner date at a Greek cuisine restaurant. Cheers Aniruddha!
14 Dec, 2021
Our wedding.
After almost 8 years of courtship, we tied the knot in the same city we grew up in, Durgapur, India. We had a post-COVID wedding bearing our families witness to the celebration of our love and life together. Friends turned into husband and wife, cheers!
13 May-04 Jun, 2019
Aniruddha’s parents’ first visit to the USA.
We were hosting Aniruddha’s parents in our little apartment in Maryland, for the first time. As an Indian couple who were dating and living together, it was definitely interesting to see how cool they were about the whole thing! 21st century parents rock!
02 Aug, 2018
Oindrila moved from Texas to Maryland.
After one year of moving to the USA, Oindrila took a transfer of her PhD from the Texas A&M University to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). We started living together as a couple after 3 years of long-distance relationship in India and another year of staying apart in a new country.