RESEARCH    AND  THE  ART  OF  DOING  WHAT  YOU  WANT  SATYAJEET  RAJE  

•  BE  2009    SKN  

•  Final  year  project  “Automa;c  Text  Summariza;on”  •  Natural  Language  Processing,  Intelligent  Search  

•  MS  2012  The  Ohio  State  University  

•  Thesis:    Sema;c  Search  Engine  for  Resource  Discovery  •  Domain:    Biomedical  and  Healthcare  

•  Currently  pursuing  PhD  •  Research  in  Seman;c  Web,  Ontologies  and  their  

applica;ons  in  Knowledge  Management  and  Data  Integra;on  

INTRODUCTIONS  

TODAY’S  TALK    •  Is  “Research”  what  it  really  seems  to  be?  

•  Can  anybody  do  research?  •  Is  it  really  necessary?  

•  How  will  it  help  •  for  my  project  •  in  my  job  •  for  higher  studies  

•  What  research  can  be  done  right  now?  

•  Steps  in  research  •  Easy  research  prac;ces  •  Transla;on  to  project  

RESEARCH?  

•  Helps  ORGANIZE  your  work  

•  The  best  way  to  SHARE  YOUR  THOUGHTS  AND  IDEAS  to  the  world  

•  A  way  to  GET  RECOGNIZED  for  your  work  

A  NEW  WAY  TO  LOOK  AT  RESEARCH?  •  Not  restricted  to  ACADEMIC  

circles  

•  Not  all  research  needs  to  be  GROUND  BREAKING  

•  “Research”  does  NOT  need  to  be  tedious  and  cumbersome!    

“Research”  is  a  WAY  OF  DOING  THINGS  !  

 

TYPES  OF  RESEARCH  

COMPUTER  SCIENCE  AND  ENGINEERING  

COMPUTER  SCIENCE  AND  ENGINEERING  

Applied  Research  

Theore;cal  Research  

COMPUTER  SCIENCE  AND  ENGINEERING  •  More  of  an  applied  science  

•  Making  the  connec;ons  is  important  

•  Every  so\ware  or  hardware  is  meant  to  aid  someone  in  a  different  domain  

RESEARCH  AND  COMMON  SENSE  •  Commonly  used  “big”  words  

•  Hypothesis  –  The  UNANSWERED!!  research  ques;on  

•  Research  Methodology  –  Your  research  PLAN  •  Literature  Review  –  Your  READING  on  the  subject  •  Cita;on  /  Reference  –  An  ar;cle  relevant  to  your  work  

THE  RULES  OF  THE  RESEARCH  GAME  

•  KNOW  your  resources  

•  USE  resources  well  •  DO  NOT  GIVE  UP  the  game  

•  BE  FLEXIBLE  about  the  outcome  

•  FAILED  EXPERIMENT  does  not  mean  failed  research  

•  EVALUATE  your  solu;on  

THE  RESEARCH  GAME  

Illustra;on:  Ernest  Harburg.  Source:  The  Science  Game,  N.  Agnew  and  S.  Pyke,  Pren;ce-­‐Hall  (1978)  

WHAT  CAN  BE  DONE  RIGHT  NOW  BE  Project  •  Choose  something  that  YOU  like  

•  Use  it  to  test  the  waters  •  Experiment  now  rather  than  during  the  Job,  MS,  ME  ..  

Tips  and  Tricks  

•  USE  WIKIPEDIA  but  properly  

•  READ  RESEARCH  ARTICLES  related  to  your  project  •  PARAPHRASE  from  what  you  have  read  

•  Have  a  RESEARCH  PLAN  and  more  importantly  an  EVALUATION  PLAN  for  your  project  

BE  PROJECT  •  Stay  Focused  on  what  you  want  to  do  •  A  “plan”  needs  well  defined  reasons,  methods  and  objec;ves  

•  Have  not  only  a  PLAN  A  but  PLAN  B  and  C  as  well  •  Be  cau;ous  of  the  companies  and  the  projects  that  they  offer  

•  An  in-­‐house  project  is  as  good  if  done  properly  •  Take  note  of  everything  you  do  and  your  contribu;ons  to  the  

project  

•  Know  your  ul;mate  professional  goal  

BE  PROJECT  •  Stay  Focused  on  what  you  want  to  do  •  A  “plan”  needs  well  defined  reasons,  methods  and  objec;ves  

•  Have  not  only  a  PLAN  A  but  PLAN  B  and  C  as  well  •  Be  cau;ous  of  the  companies  and  the  projects  that  they  offer  

•  An  in-­‐house  project  is  as  good  if  done  properly  •  Take  note  of  everything  you  do  and  your  contribu;ons  to  the  

project  

•  Know  your  ul;mate  professional  goal  

USING  WIKIPEDIA  •  Great  staring  point  for  new  research  and  researchers  •  Go  one  stage  deeper  

 

•  DO  NOT  refer  to  Wikipedia  or  Blogs  directly  

•  Compare  Wikipedia  to  Big  Bazaar  

The  most  important  part  of  a  Wikipedia  ar;cle    

READING  RESEARCH  PAPERS  •  Where  to  find  them  

•  Wikipedia  references  •  Top  conferences  and  journals  for  your  domain  (Microso\  

Academic  Search)  •  Google  Scholar  

•  What  to  read  in  them  

 Style                                    Language    Content  

•  “How  to  read  a  research  paper”  -­‐  Michael  Mitzenmacher  www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/ReadPaper.pdf‎  

•  Make  a  note  or  summary  of  the  paper  and  how  it  relates  to  your  work  

•  A  collec;on  of  these  notes  is  your  literature  survey  

PARAPHRASE  AND  NOT  PLAGIARIZE  •  Plagiarism  –  copy  pas;ng  directly  

•  Professional  and  academic  suicide  

•  Copy  the  thought  paste  your  ideas  •  Learn  to  paraphrase  “although  the  storage  capaci;es  of  hard  disks  have  increased  massively  over  the  years,  access  speeds  –  the  rate  at  which  data  can  be  read  from  drives  –  have  not  kept  up”  [1]  White,  Tom  (10  May  2012).  Hadoop:  The  Defini<ve  Guide.  O'Reilly  Media.  p.  3.  ISBN  978-­‐1-­‐4493-­‐3877-­‐0  

Over  the  years  there  has  been  an  exponen<al  increase  in  the  storage  capacity  of  hard  disks.  However,  according  to  [1]  the  access  speeds  for  these  disks  have  not  been  able  to  scale  at  the  same  rate.  

HAVE  A  RESEARCH  PLAN  •  Know  the  scope  of  your  project  •  Define  a  realis;c  ;meline  for  your  own  benefit  

•  Does  not  need  to  be  the  same  as  the  one  in  progress  report  

•  You  must  have  an  idea  of  how  you  are  going  to  evaluate  your  work  apart  from  a  working  demo  /  technology  

User  Interface  /  Human  Computer  

Interac;on    

Survey  based  evalua;on  

AI  /  Machine  Learning  /  Task  

based    

Experimental  /  Task  based  evalua;on  

Architectural  /  So\ware  Engg  /  Technology  

 Comparison  based  

evalua;on  

PLAN  TO  WRITE  A  PAPER  •  Not  as  hard  and  ;me  consuming  as  it  seems  

•  Most  of  the  work  is  already  done..  It  is  just  needed  to  be  expressed  in  the  right  way  

•  Concentrate  on  the  idea  (WHY?)  and  not  the  implementa;on  (HOW?)  

•  Every  BE  project  has  the  poten;al  to  be  converted  into  a  decent  published  paper  

•  Need  not  be  at  the  best  conference  or  journal  •  Worst  that  can  happen  is  that  it  will  get  rejected  

•  Learn  from  the  reviews  

ANATOMY  OF  A  GOOD  PAPER  •  Clear  and  Concise  •  Every  word  counts  •  As  short  as  possible  •  Good  relevant  references  •  Explana;on  of  what  is  done  and  planned  to  be  done  •  Evalua;on  method  and  results  if  possible  

ANATOMY  OF  A  GOOD  PAPER  •  Introduc;on  

•  Brief  overview  of  your  idea  or  project.  What  sets  you  apart.  •  Literature  Review  

•  Notes  on  what  you  have  read  •  Methods  

•  Explain  what  is  done  •  Discussion  

•  What  you  think  about  it  and  future  work  •  Evalua;on  

•  How  have  you  evaluated  the  work  and  its  results  •  Conclusion  

TO  SUMMARIZE  •  Research  is  not  difficult  

•  Cri;cal  thinking  is  the  most  important  outcome  

•  Ask  the  right  ques;ons  to  the  right  source  

•  Choose  your  project  well  •  Do  consider  wri;ng  a  paper  right  now  

•  ALWAYS  DO  WHAT  YOU  WANT  

CONCLUSION  Ques;ons?  Project,  Research  Process,      Mentality  a\er  BE,  Studies  in  the  US,  Start-­‐ups,  …