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• Professor: [email protected]
• Slack (for all students):
• The course starts on the 2nd week of November.
• Classes will be in person at Alameda Campus and exceptionally online via VC: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/my/nunojnunes (this is a last resort as we expect a large number of students and hybrid doesn’t work)
  • Class Schedule Tuesday 09h-13h (extra slots for presentation will be scheduled)
• Class directory his here please update your photos / information

Course Schedule

Assessment

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About the Course

This course aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge required for independent research study design pertinent to their doctoral research topics.

The course covers practical and methodological aspects of developing the research plan and publishing research results in high-quality peer-review venues.

Syllabus

1. What is a PhD? system, topic, lab, supervision, network

2. Materials: venues, state of the art, finding the gap, stating a research question

3. Methods: different research cultures and methods, selecting the best

4. Writing: structure, style, references, process

5. Presenting: doctoral consortiums, workshops, conferences, SIGs

6. Research Design

7. Wrap-up

Selecting a Paper to Work on Assignments

• Choose a seminal paper from your area of research, i.e., look for a high-impact journal (Q1/D1) or conference (A*)

  • Science and Technology Students check highly ranked papers in Science, Nature of a high impact venue from https://www.scimagojr.com or GoogleScholar

  • CSE Students go to the ACM Digital Library Conferences webpage

    Choose one of the A* conferences from the list.

  • Design students might also want to check CSCW, DIS or C&C (A) or IASDR and DRS which are not organised by ACM.

  • Check the Proceedings of the last three years for best paper awards that are close to your topic an choose one paper.

• A typical Full Paper will be 14-20 pgs and you should aim at producing a short paper max 8 pgs (with references) this paper will also be together with your assessment of the process the content of assignment #5.

Assignments

#1. Create your PhD Webpage and Summary Slide (10%)

#2. Visual Abstract (10%)

#3. Reviewing Process (20%)

#4. Presentation of the Paper (20%)

#5. Final Report (40%)

Class Slides

#1 - Introduction: What is a PhD?

Class 1.pdf

#2 - Materials: state of the art, reading, RQs

Class 2.pdf

#3 - Writing: papers and reviews

Class 3.pdf

Tools:

• https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
• https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

#4 - Presenting your Work

Class 4.pdf

Examples:

GoodPresentation.pdf

badpresentation .pdf

#5 - Research Design

Resources

Matt Might’s Illustrated Guide to a PhD

Gordon Rugg and Marian Petre, *The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research, Open University Press, 2020.*

Peter J. Feibelman, *A PhD Is Not Enough A Guide to Survival in Science, Basic Books, 2011.*

Final Workshop

Dates and Deliverables

• Abstract Submission: 8 Dec
• Reviewer Assignment: 15 Dec
• Paper Submission: 19 Dec
• Reviews Due: 9 Jan
• Workshops: TDB

Organization

General Chairs

• Seyed Amir Afzali Fatatouei -
• Mafalda Da Costa Veigas -
• Roel: arrange a meeting to divide responsibilities and setup deadlines. This should be presented in class this coming Wednesday (2 Dez)

Program Co-Chairs

meet to decide the reviewing model and divide roles between co-chairs and meta-reviewers I will ask each one of you to present in class (25 Oct) two or three models from A conferences (i.e. how the reviewing process works, if they have associated chairs, rebuttals, etc.)*

• Computer Science
  • Nuno Miguel Matos Torgo Gonçalves
  • João Pedro Taveira Pinto da Silva
• Digital Media
  • Sheila Correia Ramos
  • Pedro Daniel das Neves Pereira
• Electrical Engineering
  • Anton Tolstonogov
  • João Maria Henriques da Silva Félix Mendes
• Mathematics+Physics
  • Belarmino Gomes Mendes Tavares
  • Afonso Romão Júlio Guerreiro
• Others