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UTCS Graduate Student Research & Career Advice
Graduate Advising Day (GAD) 2009
Feb 6 @ ACES 2.402
9:00 am - We want you to succeed! J Strother Moore
9:15 am - Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect, Kathryn S McKinley
9:45 am - Practicum: Practice interviewing with your peers.
10:15 am - Break
10:30 am -
Panel led discussion: What I wish I had done in graduate school and the best thing I did do, Mike Walfish & Brent Waters
* 11:30 am - Networking
, Adam Klivans
* 12:00 pm - Lunch & Practicum: Give an elevator talk. Come prepared to describe your research to a student outside your research area.
* 1:00 am - Looking back, peering ahead
, Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008)
* 1:30 pm - Practicum: Curriculum vitae swap. Bring your CV. You will exchange with a student outside your research area.
* 2:00 pm - I speak pretty now
, Kristen Grauman
* 2:30 pm - Break
* 3:00 pm - Interdisciplinary research
, Luay Nakhleh, Assistant Professor, Rice University (UT PhD 2004)
* 3:30 pm - On writing well
, William Cook
* 4:00 pm - Practicum: writing swap. Bring a one to two page writing sample, such as the abstract and introduction of a work in progress, your research statement, or a paper critique. You will exchange with a student outside your research area.
* 4:45 pm - Evaluation: Fill out web evaluation form.
===== Graduate Advising Day (GAD) =====
gad-all-2007.ppt - UTCS Graduate Advice Day Slides, Feb 23, 2007
* Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
* Communication Skills, Adam Klivans
* Panel: What Will I Do When I Graduate? (Praveen Yalagandula, HP; Dave Moriarty, Apple; Seth Pettie, University of Michigan – all UT PhD grads)
* Managing Your Advisor, Keshav Pingali
* Panel: Tools and Advice for AI, Systems, & Theory Research (Ned Dimitrov, Mike Bond, Shimon Whiteson – all UT PhD students)
* Advice on Applying and Interviewing for Jobs, Steve Keckler
* Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof)
UTCS Graduate Student Advice Day Slides, May 11, 2006
* Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
* Starting a research career & picking an advisor, Emery Berger, Assistant Prof at UMass (UT graduate)
* What your advisor can do for you & managing your advisor, Doug Burger, Associate Professor
* Communication skills - I speek pretty now, Mike Dahlin, Associate Professor
* Networking, Pete Manolios, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (UT graduate)
* What it takes to land academic interviews & how to create it, - Kathryn McKinley, Professor
* Preparing for an academic interview, Karu Sankaralingam, Graduate Student
* What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, Long Huang, Graduate Student
* What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, JP Martin, Graduate Student
===== Career Advice =====
Links to a variety of professional development materials. Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others.
Advice on Research, Dr. R.W. Hamming
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, David Patterson
Pithy advice for researchers, Mike Dahlin
Pithy advice for graduate school, Rachel Pottinger & Kathryn McKinley (June 2005)
Accreted wisdom related to computer science, Armando Fox
===== Big thoughts =====
As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Richard Feynman
===== Writing Papers and Giving Talks =====
How to give a bad talk, Mike Dahlin
How to give a good talk, Mike Dahlin
The Task of the Referee Alan Jay Smith
Hints on writing technical papers, Armando Fox
Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, Joseph M. Williams
The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
===== General Advice =====
Pending
===== Other Wiki's =====
The Neural Networks research page] is a useful and thorough collection of UTCS info, including lots of advice about classes, working on a dissertation, etc. Especially interesting are the sections about "General Research Tools" information, including guides for LaTeX, LyX, CVS, SSH, and system security. [Accessible from UT network only
===== Women in Computing =====
CRA (Computing Research Association), Graduate Student Information guide, and lots of other great career advice