some do’s and don’ts from my phd antoon goderis information management group cs700 20 october...
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Some do’s and don’ts from my PhD
Antoon Goderis
Information Management Group
CS700
20 October 2006
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Me• Belgian
• First degree economics (Leuven)
• Conversion course in CS and AI (Mcr / Edin)
• Ex-Mentor
• PhD in the Information Management Group– Carole Goble and Robert Stevens
eScience Bioinformatics
Workflow
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Reasons I did a PhD• Some v cool people
• Develop and work with latest techniques
• If it doesn’t work out, the job market will still be there
.. in Manchester
• Home of ontologies meeting the real world
• Proximity to the academics
• English
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Do’s
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Find your own niche• Find and Do Your Own (Little but Great) Thing
• Zigzagging between theory and practice
• It’s hard to please two masters– In a little over three (four) years
– So choose, at the latest after year one
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‘Add to Knowledge’• You already have a lot of baggage to draw on
• Lots of small steps – so keep going
• Who could be your community/communities?
t1
Community (or reviewers’) knowledge about whatever
t2
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Talk to all who will listen • Carole Goble
• Ulrike Sattler
• Chris Wroe
• Phil Lord
• Robert Stevens
• Mark Greenwood
• Dave Robertson
• Bertram Ludaescher
• Andy Brass
• Norman Paton
• Alan Bundy
• Austin Tate
• Nikiforos Karamanis
• Peter Li
• Alan Rector
• Serafeim Zanikolas
• Andreas Wombacher
• Evgeny Zolin
• Richard Banach
• Wilfried Lemahieu
• Jacques Vandenbulcke
• Lin Yang
• Ilkay Altintas
• Efrat Jaeger
• Christopher Brooks
• Edward Lee
• Stephen Potter
• Jun Zhao
• Pinar Alper
• Duncan Hull
• Paul Fisher
• Matt Horridge
• Khalid Belhajjame
• Boris Motik
• Birte Glimm
• Frank van Harmelen
• Annette ten Teije
• Marco Roos
• Armin Haller
• Jim Blythe
• Daniele Turi
• Sean Bechofer
• Valentin Zacharias
• Ewa Deelman
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And find your own truth
1. Brokering problem-solving methods2. Agent-based protocol composition3. Process algebra and description logics hybrid4. Ontology instance learning5. Abduction based ontology retrieval6. Workflow interoperability7. Simple versus complex and their combination 8. Gold standard based workflow discovery
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Time management• E-mail/phone/instant-chat/meetings
• Read related work
• Attend courses/seminars/workshops/conferences
• Demonstrate
• Review
• Work dinners
• Adapt to a life abroad
• Do your own research..
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Care for your supervisor• Find a topic you both care for
• All feedback is good feedback
– Time is short
– Prep for the outside
• Meetings
– Set the agenda
– Solutions, not problems
• Writings
– Print stuff out
– Get more than one opinion
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Travel• Conferences
– Galway, Chicago
• Workshops
– Edinburgh, Bath, London, Hinxton, Galway, San Diego
• Study visits
– Innsbruck, Berkeley, San Diego
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Anticipate going up and down
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Have a life• Life outside research helps life inside
• Dare to (actively) do nothing
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Don’ts
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It’s not about• Being formal versus practical
• Being in a sexy domain
• Being a coder
• Being overly respectful
• Pushing out paper
• Doing your time
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Beware procrastination
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Beware procrastination
• Nobody cares
– whether you show up
– whether you do work while you are in
– when you leave
• But there is a catch
• Output is measured through
– Papers in good places
– Impact in the community
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Finally, a good routine (for me)• Write in order to think
– Not think in order to write
– Log your (excitement/disillusion with-) ideas
– Make it a compelling story
• Draw up a timeline with respect to a paper deadline
• Prioritise/plan every morning
• Keep at least one day per week free of work (-thoughts)
• Have a periodic reality check of your ideas
– Avoid analysis paralysis: balance thinking/doing