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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
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