The slides were presented as part of a research program initiated by IEEE AlexSB and presents my experience with research so far.
- 1. Research Success Storyin the Making Ahmed Saeed Egypt-Japan
University for Science and Technology www.ahmad-saeed.co.cc/
2. Background
- Computer and Systems Engineering Graduate, Class 2010
3. Research Assistant at Egypt-Japan University for Science and
Technology (2010 - Now) 4. Research Intern at Nile University
(2009) 5. Sun Campus Ambassador at Sun Microsystems (2008 - 2009)
6. Junior Software Developer at eSpace technologies (2008 - 2009)
7. Background (Cont'd)
- Author of 2 journal papers
8. Author 2 conference papers one accepted at PerCom'12
(Acceptance Ratio11% ) 9. Third Place award winner at Graduate
Student Research Competition at MobiCom'11 10. Second Place award
winner at Undergraduate Student Research Competition at MobiCom'09
11. Agenda
12. How it all began 13. Why I am doing it 14. How you can do it
too 15. The life of a Research Assistant (RA) 16. Research 17.
Research
- Solving (new/old) problems using (old/new) methods
- Playing with unsolved riddles
18. Identifying new riddles to work on Contributing to the body
of human knowledge
- Advancing our local community
19. Pushing the boundaries of the known 20. My Work
- Cognitive Radio Networks (2012 Now)
21. Device Free Passive Localization (2010 Now) 22. Weather
Forecasting Implementation Acceleration (2009 2010) 23. Bandwidth
Aggregation (2009) 24. Surveying Chaotic Systems and Nonlinear
Systems (2008) 25. Surveying Computational Theory (2007) 26. How it
all started Creative Commons Photo Credit byzachklein 27. How it
all started
- Frustration with the System
28. Bad Evaluation System Frustration with the Curriculum
- Is what we are taught enough ?
Passion for learning
- How can we be better Engineers ?
29. Why Research Creative Commons Photo Credit by photojonny 30.
Why Research ?
31. Support System (failure is not the end) Freedom
32. You control your environment Sense of Achievement
- Contribution to our community and humanity
33. Be a Researcher Creative Commons Photo Credit bygmacorig 34.
Be a Researcher
- Read -> With critical thinking
35. Think -> And write everything down 36. Work Hard with
Perseverance 37. Learn from your Advisor 38. Have fun and don't
forget the big picture 39. The Life of a Research Assistant
- Keeping up to date with the field
40. Working on the research point 41. Writing Papers 42. Helping
other RAs 43. Having fun (if you can manage your time) 44.
References
- Matt Might's Bloghttp://matt.might.net/articles/
45. (re)made Bloghttp://jackalopekid.com/
