2009 - 2010Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips My Research Tips Fadhl M Al-Akwaa I believe that you have an important Tips than this presentation, PLEASE

2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips

My Research Tips

Fadhl M Al-Akwaa

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My problems• I should pay to get the paper and book $$$$$$$$$$$$• There are a lot papers! Which one is strong (paper

ranking)?• I spend a lot of time searching for what I had downloaded?

Organizing your data base• When I start writing I forget all what I read?• My supervisor does not answer my e-mails?• Why I should do the best during PhD? do not say I will do it after getting the PhD• What I should do after writing Paper?• I am not comfortable with Ms-word?• What a hard work? No one motivate me!


Resources: Journals I have no access to the journal

• Try authors personal web site

• Try google scholar see the next picture

http://scholar.google.com.eg/

• Note: Google some times for conference papers does not return your paper you should to go to conference website.


Try google scholar http://scholar.google.com.eg


Resources: Journals I have no access to the journal

• TryI think it cost 20 pound in month

• Hit the first links in the next slide.



Resources: e-Books

• Try these two big e-library.http://gigapedia.org/www.ebookee.com

• http://www.asbme.org/eBooks/

U:asbme

Pass:bme

• http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/?pg=library/books/searchlibrary.php&WebsiteID=479db7e65ed188eb68a63dde32258e42


Resources: hard copy booksyou can know the shelf no of your book

http://books.google.com/




Paper ranking

• How guys cite this paper look at– http://scholar.google.com.eg/ see the next slide– http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

• Did they use public Data?

• Is there Website for these paper?

• Software availability? To try their experiments



Organize your materials

How to organize your resources– Biography Software e.g EndNote

• With ENDNOTE you have one file to include all your book, paper, software, website, presentation

– Explore Bookmark e.g firefox• The last thing you have after your complete your

research is file sized 1kb (see my incomplete file at the next slide)



When I start writing I forget all what I read?

• Read and write at the same time

• “ do not put the fresh juice in freezer, drink it immediately”


Dealing with your supervisor?

• Think of how he spend his time see the next slide

• You are not the only student he has?

• Don’t spam his email?

• Motivate him in your point? Show him the impact of your point


How do they spend their time?Conflicting demands

•The tasks

– Teaching

– Research• Including system development/experimentation

– Advising (PhD students, etc.)

– Grants

– Reviewing

– Industry and consulting

And the normal life: family, friends, hobbies, sports…

•Time management is the big issue

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~abitebou/PRESENTATION/LifeInAcademia.ppt


Why I should do my best during PhD

• The maximum Publication rate is during the PhD.

100%

0%

Time spent doing research

PhD junior senior


Motivate your self: what do you want from research?

To manage people To be rich To not work To be famous To have power To be useful

try the army

•try start-ups

•try a rich spouse

•try show business or serial killer

•try politics

•try NGO


Why it is such a great job

•Intellectually exciting and challenging– I don’t know of any job that is as much fun

(perhaps writing novels but that’s too competitive)

•Less repetitive than other jobs– When you get tired of a topic, you change

•Freedom and independence– No real boss

– Freedom to choose what you want to work on

•Rich human interactions with smart and international people

•Socially positive

– People think it is a cool job – Clearly useful (for teaching and perhaps research)

I am free!!!!


10 highlights of life in academia•Some light of understanding in the eyes of the audience•The excitement of the arrival of a new PhD student•The deliverance of the departure of a PhD student (aka defense)•The success of your ex-students in their career•The orgasm of proving a theorem that resisted for months•The delight of having your system finally do something real•The ecstasy of having a paper accepted at a top conference•The happiness of seeing your paper cited and (with God’s help) even read •The joy of seeing a book that you wrote on the desk of a colleague


Motivate your self Jay Myung Reaearc Advicehttp://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/myung/personal/

• How to be a good graduate student

• How to do research

• Advice on research and writing

• Professor Kruschke's Virtual Mentor

• Useful things to know about Ph.D. thesis research

• Writing and publication in graduate school New Researchers' Survival Guide

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/mit.research.how.to.html

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ekruschke/lab/gradgoals.html



http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Ehtk/thesis.htm

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/%7Ehtk/thesis.htm


I am not comfortable with MS-word

• http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf• Why Latex• Professionally crafted layouts are available, which make a document really

look as if “printed.”• The typesetting of mathematical formulae is supported in a convenient way.• Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that specify the

logical structure of a document. They almost never need to tinker with the actual layout of the document.

• Even complex structures such as footnotes, references, table of contents, and bibliographies can be generated easily.

• Free add-on packages exist for many typographical tasks not directly supported by basic LATEX. For example, packages are available to

• include PostScript graphics or to typeset bibliographies conforming to exact standards. Many of these add-on packages are described in The LATEX Companion .

• LATEX encourages authors to write well-structured texts, because this is how LATEX works—by specifying structure.


What I should do after write paper

• Send it to other to read it

• Read it after one week.

• Test it on http://www.plagiarismdetect.com


Finally

• Personal tips– Make your personal website and put all your

works for others

• Dealing with research community– Ask the pioneer in your research area.– The more you give the more you take– Try to help your colleagues

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