Suggestions & HOW TO

Advice on Research

• "How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia" by David A Patterson
• "Time Management" by Randy Pausch
• Hamming's advice: A stroke of genius: striving for greatness in all you do
• How to read research papers
• Attending confereces: usually, you are expected to provide a conference review to irkm lab after returning back. In the review, you are expected to list all paper sessions/posters you have attend/look at, including their pros, cons and (optional) how we/you could follow up on that. This is an effect way for you to summarize what you have learned from the conference.
• http://taoxie.cs.illinois.edu/advice/

Tips on tuning models

andrew ng deep learning yearning

What to do in an academic conference

Dissertation proposal Tips

Advice on Writing

• "A Computer Scientist's Guide to Writing and Publishing Technical Articles" by Paul Martin
• "Miscellaneous Tips for Writing and Formatting" by Jeffrey Scott Vitter
• "How To Write A Dissertation or Bedtime Reading For People Who Do Not Have Time To Sleep" by Douglas E. Comer
• Element of Style by W. Strunk and E. White

Advice on Presentation

• How to give a good lunch talk
• "How to give a good research talk" by Simon Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes
• "It's the story, stupid: don't let presentation software keep you from getting your story across" by Doc Searls

How to make Posters

• How to make a poster in UCSC by Jonathan Koren etc.
  

How to get administrator's right on your machine

 

If you are on windows OS, you can get administrator's right by filling out the sudo/admin form, which is available in Baskin Engineering room 310 and which is also available at the following link: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/sudo_toa.pdf . You need Yi to sign the form.

 

If you are on linux OS, your machine will be removed from normal SOE network if you have an administator's righg. It is not recommended because you won't be able to access many SOE computing resources.

Useful URLs For User Studies

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

 

Travel (attending a conference sponsored by UCSC)

By default, we sponsor trips for the first author to present an oral full paper in top tier conferences in IRKM area. Talk with your advisor before you travel to see whether your trip will be reimbused.

Register for insurance before you go

Follow the UCSC rules, otherwise your cost might not be reimbused

How to get reimbursed (food, travel, etc.)

 

Get signiture from Yi, and submit the signed forms to Gisela Richards, BE-333

https://financial.ucsc.edu/Pages/Payments_Main.aspx

For food etc (https://intranet.soe.ucsc.edu/researchadmin#Entertainment)

For conference travel (http://financial.ucsc.edu/Financial_Affairs_Forms/Post_Travel_Expense.pdf) Read the guide here

For other staff ( Direct Pay form https://financial.ucsc.edu/Financial_Affairs_Forms/Direct_Payment.pdf)

 

Important: due to the federal funding requirement, you must use an US airline for most of your travel

 

Try to get a quota from UCLA travel agent before using other agencies http://www.travel.ucla.edu/new/Res_Request_UCSC.htm