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Week 1
How to select a research area & advisor (2/28)
Richard Hamming’s “You & Your Research”
You and Your Research (Youtube)
You and Your Research (Transcript)
Ben Barres – How to Pick a Graduate Advisor
How to Pick a Graduate Advisor
How to Contact a Professor
How to email your supervisor
Email Writing Tips
Week 2
How to find papers (3/5)
Conferences & Journals Rankings
Google Scholar maintains venue rankings based on h5 index
Microsoft compiles their own ranking
Types of Search Engines for Papers
ACM Digital Library
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Elsevier ScienceDirect
Springer Link
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
Allen Institute’s Semantic Scholar
Bibliographies
Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
Penn State University’s CiteSeerX
Mutation Testing
Genetic Programming
Search Based Software Engineering
Test Oracles
How to Keep Up
The Morning Paper
Week 3
How to read papers (3/14)
More reading about reading
How to read a paper – S. Keshav, University of Waterloo
How to read a research paper – M. Mitzenmacher, Harvard University
How to read a research paper – Grisword, Murphy, and Conati
Week 4
How to write a good paper (3/19)
Writing resources
“How to write a great research paper” by Simon Peyton Jones
”Top-10 tips for writing a paper” by Jim Kurose
“Tips for Writing Technical Papers” by Jennifer Widom
“How do I write a good research paper?” by Andy Ko
“Writing Technical Articles” by Henning Schulzrinne
Area-specific writing resources
HCI:
An HCI research paper writing guide formatted as an HCI paper by Jacob O. Wobbrock
Software Engineering:
“Draft Guidelines for My Students on Writing Software Engineering Research Papers” by Mark Harman
Systems:
“Tips about writing systems papers” by Lin Zhong
What happens to my paper: publication pipeline (3/21)
Pros and cons of F2F PC meeting:
My Last Program Committee Meeting? by Arie van Deursen
Conference vs Journal:
CS is atypical in that conference papers convey a lot of prestige
Single/double/N-th blind reviewing:
Open peer review
Double Blind Reviewing (DBR):
There are multiple scientific results that says affiliation, name, country, and gender do affect the outcome
Week 5
How to review papers (3/26)
"How not to be Reviewer #2" by Ashley Brown, U. of Utaha
How to perform a peer review – Wiley
How to conduct a review – Elsevier
“How to review a paper – Q&A from Science/AAAS (link)
Week 6
How to make good presentations (4/2)
Marta Kagan, “What would Steve do? - 10 lessons from the world’s most captivating presenters”
SlideComet, “How to create presentation slides that are out of this world”
Simon Peyton Jones, “How to give a great research talk”
Kayvon Fatahalian, “Tips for giving clear talks”
Arnaud Legout, “How to give a good talk”
Designing human studies (4/4)
CS374’s Experiment Design reading
Week 6
How to make good presentations (4/2)
Marta Kagan, “What would Steve do? - 10 lessons from the world’s most captivating presenters”
SlideComet, “How to create presentation slides that are out of this world”
Simon Peyton Jones, “How to give a great research talk”
Kayvon Fatahalian, “Tips for giving clear talks”
Arnaud Legout, “How to give a good talk”
Designing human studies (4/4)
CS374’s Experiment Design reading
Week 9
How to write proposals (4/23)
A guide for proposal writing by NSF
Open advice to Google Faculty Research Awards proposal writers
How to write a great research proposal by S. P. Jones and A. Bundy
You and Your Research Proposal by N. Feamster and A. Gray
Week 10
Research ethics (4/30)
Ethical guidelines
ACM Code of Ethics
IEEE Code of Ethics
APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics
How to market yourself and your research (5/2)
“Do good work & let people know about it.” by David Karger
CV Examples
Minsuk Chang (Ph.D. student)
Prof. Juho Kim
Scott Klemmer
Geoffrey Hinton
CV Resources
Creating your academic CV
CV tipes and samples
Poster tips
Poster example
Research posters 101
Research video
Not Going to Take This Anymore: Multi-objective Overtime Planning for Software Engineering Projects
inFORM - Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display
Revealing Invisible Changes In The World
Open science
RecipeScape: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing Cooking Instructions at Scale
MoSculp: Interactive Visualization of Shape and Time
RCMU panoptic dataset
Website
Minsuk Chang
Prof. Juho kim
Stefanie Mueller
Maneesh Agrawala
Frans Kaashoek
Barbara Liskov
Networking & Conferences: resources
Attending Professional Conferences as a Newcomer by Philip Guo
Networking Tips for Younger PhD Students by Jean Yang
Advice for Social Interactions & Relationships by Philip Guo
Resources
Tomorrow’s Professor mailing list
Philip Guo’s blog & Ph.D. Grind
AJean Yang’s blog
박사과정을 돌아보며
UCSD job talk videos
Juho Kim’s faculty app materia
Week 11
How to approach Statistical analysis (5/9)
XKCD: P-value significance
XKCD: P-value interpretation
Week 14
Life as a researcher (5/28)
CV of failure
Focusing the research lens on the professor's own schedule
Real science. Now in real time.
Week 15
Job market/career paths (6/4)
Why it is not a failure to leave academia - Nature
What happens when academics quit? Good things, it turns out – Times Higher Education
The Ph.D. Factory - Nature