CSCI6969: Spring 2021 Computer Science Graduate Skills Seminar

• Instructor: Lirong Xia (xialirong@gmail.com).
• Time: Wed 9 am-9:50 am
• Location: Online (check your RPI email)
• Must sign up on campusopra.cs.rpi.edu in the beginning of each class.
  • must use RPI wifi or VPN (mobile network does not work)
  • login to campusopra.cs.rpi.edu (NOT opra.cs.rpi.edu) use your RCS ID/Password
  • click "Classes" tab on the top
  • you should see the attendance button for the class. If not, check 1. if you logged in to campusopra (not opra.cs.rpi.edu), 2. if you see the class (if not, it means that you have never taken attendance before so that you are not in the system---talk to Lirong).
  • contact Lirong if you encounter any difficulty
  • all attendance polls 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

• 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