CSCI6969: Fall 2021 Computer Science Graduate Skills Seminar

• Instructor: Lirong Xia (xialirong@gmail.com).
• Time: Wed 9 am-9:50 am
• Location: SAGE 4510
• Upload an arbitrary (small) file on submitty between 8:55 am to 9:30 am to take attendance. Please only do it when you are attending the class. Any observed violation of this rule will immediate result in failure of the class (plus other consequences).
  
  • all attendance records are finalized in one week from the lecture dates, no changes will be made in any case. So, please contact Lirong early.

Schedule (subject to change)

Graduate Student Speakers

• TBD

Past course websites

• Spring 2021
• Fall 2019
• Fall 2018
• Fall 2017
• Fall 2016

RPI's Center for Global Communication+Design (Comm+D)

• https://www.commd.rpi.edu
• Free service to RPI community for help in writing
• Open house for RPI graduate students: Wed. Oct 9 4-5 pm, Folsom Library Lower Level.

CRA-W workshops on Graduate Skills (look for slides under different workshops and cohort programs)

• http://cra.org/cra-w/resources/resources-from-past-events/
• Presentations on topics like Master’s vs. Ph.D, Publishing your research, finding advisor, balancing personal and professional life, career paths, building self confidence, building professional persona, finding a research topic

UToronto Graduate Skills seminar

• http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/courses/gradSkills/2010/

How to do good research and get it published and cited (Eamonn Keogh)

• http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/Keogh_SIGKDD09_tutorial.pdf

Critical Questions for Research Proposals (a.k.a. Heilmeier questions)

• https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism