CS492A

Useful links from the class slides

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