 My name is Irina Reshodko. I'm originally from Kazakhstan, from Astana. I had my undergraduate degree in Moscow, and then I moved to Tokyo, Japan, as I was hired by a Japanese company, right from, right fresh from the university. So I worked in mainland Japan for about two years, and then I moved to Okinawa. Worked there for a year and a half or so in a company called Ryukyu Network Service. I already was living in Okinawa, and I really love Okinawa. So having such an advanced international university in Okinawa was a real surprise, a very, very good surprise, and a source of amazement for me. I came to this university, there were people from all over the world, and it did feel like, since all these people come here, must be something very good about this place, that caught my attention a lot. My PhD is in theoretical quantum physics. Maybe as some people heard, that quantum physics works with very small things. At a normal, very, very low temperatures as well. And my field is in extreme side of it. It's a very low temperature, few body systems. In lower dimensions, dimensions are one-dimensional or two-dimensional. Although it kind of sounds that it's very theoretical, actually it just means that the other dimensions, additional dimensions are just so constricted, that most things are happening just in one dimension. For example, you can imagine a tube, something like that. And I've been working on analytical solutions of some mathematical models that are useful for cold atomic physics, quantum information experiments. My life during OIST, it was actually quite good social life here, campus. Student life is in general, it's very full of interactions with people, you have a lot of friends, and they all leave like two minutes from you, or next door, there is constantly some gatherings. I enjoyed a lot of these activities actually, and clubs popped up. So I did capoeira with my friends here. I worked in the garden with some people. I also played some board games and role-playing games with my friends, so that was very fun. For the moment, I'm working that way, and I really enjoy my time there. The company has the driving simulator, the traffic school attached to it. The driving simulator is not a simple one, it's actually a real car, which is rigged and connected to the computer, and is sitting in a VR room with the projections that aim actually at all the mirrors at appropriate angles. So once you're in the car, you actually feel like you're really in a real car, and there's also a motion system that tweaks the car's position a little bit. And the problem that I'm trying to solve with my team is to implement and develop theoretically and implement this artificial intelligence driving teaching system that will be able to monitor student performance and all the manures they're trying to execute on the road and give feedback appropriate online while they're driving and offline as a debris field as well. So my PhD topic itself has nothing to do with my current work, but the PhD training has a lot of skills that I'm using right now. I have no trouble changing field right now because I already have experience doing that and I know how to learn new field. In a future plan, I wanted to make my own company. One of my big dreams is to get involved with the space industry somehow. Ideally make a company that does something with space because I'm very interested in space exploration. Yeah, the field that interests me the most is the space resource utilization. That means getting resources from space. There are lots of extraterrestrial sources of water, like the moon, the asteroids. And my big dream is to be able to mine those asteroids for water and provide propellant on the orbit so we can have deeper space missions and missions to other planets and colonies eventually.