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2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
My Research Tips
Fadhl M Al-Akwaa
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2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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!
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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.
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
Try google scholar http://scholar.google.com.eg
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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.
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
Resources: e-Books
• Try these two big e-library.http://gigapedia.org/www.ebookee.com
• http://www.asbme.org/eBooks/
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Pass:bme
• http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/?pg=library/books/searchlibrary.php&WebsiteID=479db7e65ed188eb68a63dde32258e42
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
Resources: hard copy booksyou can know the shelf no of your book
http://books.google.com/
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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)
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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”
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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!!!!
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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.
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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
2009 - 2010 Fadhl Al-Akwaa: My Research Tips
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