CS492D

Useful Links from Lecture Slides

Week 1

How to select a research area and advisor (3/18)

Richard Hamming - You and 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 (3/23)

    Conferences & Journals Rankings

  • Google Scholar maintains venue rankings based on h5 index
  • Microsoft compiles their own ranking
  • Computing Research & Education, run by Australian government, grades conferences

    • 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

    • Reference Management

  • Mendeley (all platforms)
  • Zotero (all platforms)
  • Papers (Mac, iOS)
  • ReadCube (PC, Android, Web)
  • BibDesk (Mac)
  • JabRef (all platforms)
  • EndNote (PC, Mac)

    • Week 3

    How to read papers (3/30)

    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
  • How to (seriously) read a scientific paper – Science Magazine
  • How to read a scientific paper – Science Magazine

    • Week 4

    How to write a good paper (4/6)

    Writing resources

  • How to write a great research paper – Simon Peyton Jones
  • Top-10 tips for writing a paper – Jim Kurose
  • Tips for Writing Technical Papers – Jennifer Widom
  • How do I write a good research paper? – Andy Ko
  • Writing Technical Articles – Henning Schulzrinne

    • Area-specific writing resources

  • HCI: An HCI research paper writing guide formatted as an HCI paper – Jacob O. Wobbrock
  • Software Engineering: Draft Guidelines for My Students on Writing Software Engineering Research Papers – Mark Harman
  • Systems: Tips about writing systems papers – Lin Zhong

    • What happens to my paper: publication pipeline (4/8)

  • 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 (4/13)

  • How not to be Reviewer #2 – 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

    • Week 6

    How to make good presentations (4/22)

  • What would Steve do? 10 lessons from the world’s most captivating presenters – Marta Kagan
  • How to create presentation slides that are out of this world – SlideComet
  • How to give a great research talk – Simon Peyton Jones
  • Tips for giving clear talks – Kayvon Fatahalian
  • How to give a good talk – Arnaud Legout

    • Week 7

    How to write proposals (4/29)

  • A guide for proposal writing by NSF
  • Open advice to Google Faculty Research Awards proposal writers
  • How to write a great research proposal – S. P. Jones and A. Bundy
  • You and Your Research Proposal – N. Feamster and A. Gray

    • Week 10

    Research ethics (5/18)

    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

    • Week 11

    How to market yourself and your research (5/25)

  • Do good work & let people know about it. – David Karger

    • CV Examples

  • Minsuk Chang (Ph.D. student)
  • Prof. Juho Kim
  • Scott Klemmer
  • Geoffrey Hinton

    • CV Resources

  • Creating your academic CV
  • CV Tips and Samples

    • Poster Tips

  • UIST poster gallery
  • 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
  • CMU Panoptic Dataset

    • Website

  • Minsuk Chang
  • Prof. Juho kim
  • Stefanie Mueller
  • Maneesh Agrawala
  • Frans Kaashoek
  • Barbara Liskov

    • Interactive Website

  • SBFL Visualizer
  • RecipeScape: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing Cooking Instructions at Scale
  • z3

    • Networking & Conferences

  • Attending Professional Conferences as a Newcomer – Philip Guo
  • Networking Tips for Younger PhD Students – Jean Yang
  • Advice for Social Interactions & Relationships – Philip Guo

    • Resources

  • Tomorrow’s Professor mailing list
  • Philip Guo’s blog & Ph.D. Grind
  • Jean Yang’s blog
  • mcpanic.com: 박사과정을 돌아보며
  • UCSD job talk videos
  • Juho Kim’s faculty app material

    • How to approach Statistical analysis (5/27)

  • The Datasaurus Dozen
  • Distribution of Reported P-values
  • Spurious Correlations

    • Week 12

    Designing Human Studies (6/1)

  • CS374’s Experiment Design reading

    • Week 14

    Job market/career paths (6/17)

  • The Top Talent of Tech Disruptors and Titans
  • Why it is not a failure to leave academia - Nature
  • What happens when academics quit? Good things, it turns out – Times Higher Education
  • The PhD Factory - Nature