Friday, March 18, 2016

What You Need to Graduate, by Dr. Tracy Hammond, CSE, TAMU

What You Need to Graduate, by Dr. Tracy Hammond, CSE, TAMU



Partial List of Graduation Requirements (in progress). This page is under construction.
(Student is taken as a whole. Below are sample ways to exhibit this.) (Anywhere there is a total number as opposed to a yearly number, the MS is approximately 1/3.)

Complete Thesis/Dissertation Proposal/Statement


Knowledge of General Computer Science


Knowledge of Lab's Research

  • Give 3+ lectures on Lab's Research
    • tutorial counts
    • classes count (CHI, SR)
  • Pass SRL Prelim

Teaching

  • Give 3+ lectures on Lab's Research
  • TA 1+ undergraduate-level (sub-400) computer science course

Multidisciplinary Interaction

  • Work on a multi-disciplinary grant.
  • Take a class in outside area and apply that work to your work

Collaboration

  • Work significantly with another member of the lab on a research project of which you both become co-authors of a paper
  • You should both have a non-primary author (T.H. doesn't count) and be a non-primary author. (Helping and working with others is an important part of learning.)

Follow Through / Completion

  • Projects should be followed through to completion. (obviously thesis project, but probably one other small project as well)

Research Depth

  • One project (thesis) should show that you have developed a significant new paradigm for solving a problem.

Understand the Scientific Method

  • Each project should
    1. determine a need
    2. invent a solution
    3. evaluate and test that the solution solves or does not solve the need

Research Breadth

  • You should have papers and projects in more than one research topic.

Writing and Publication and Dissemination

  • Be first author on 2+ long papers accepted to highly competitive conferences including: IUI, UIST, SigGraph, AAAI, CHI, IJCAI, NIPS.
  • Be first author on 3+ long papers (include above) to highly competitive conferences including: IUI, UIST, SigGraph, AAAI, CHI, IJCAI, IAAI, GI, HCI, Eurographics
  • Be first author on a long paper at a conference dedicated to your research: e.g., SBIM,
  • Be an author on 1.5+ journal publications (maybe first on one, second on another)
  • In some cases, we can look at second authors.
  • (This is a general guideline, there will be variations.)

Creativity

  • You research topic should present a new paradigm for research.
  • You need to exhibit the ability to invent new solutions and research spaces.
  • Future work is a significant part of a thesis defense.
  • Develop and outline a research problem for someone at a lower learning stage.

Mentoring

  • Help others on their path to a degree.
  • Mentor and lead the research in someone at a lower learning stage.

Presentation Skills

  • Present a research talk at a conference or similar 3+ times.
  • Present a research talk formally at TAMU 1+ times.
  • Present a poster of your research 6+ times.
  • Present your research to SRL 6+ times

Research Usability Longevity

  • Your research results should be packaged in such a way to ensure ease of use and accessibility
  • 3+ should have used it.

Broader Impacts

  • Show that your research may be usable in a broader perspective than just a computer science research experiment

Service

  • Do something good for the the department. (GSA)
  • Give 6+ demos of lab stuff to visitors. (Aggieland Saturday, undergrads, cs video counts only once)
  • Work to help finish the work for a grant in the lab. (DARPA)

Independence

  • Be the lead on projects.
  • Be able to figure it out.
  • Go where no other woman or man has gone before
  • Approach the new frontier.

Grant Writing Experience

  • Take the lead in writing one grant (must be 'approved' by lab and T.H.)

Write Dissertation/Thesis



Pass SRL Defense

  • Give presentation in front of the lab. 2/3 must sign off.

Pass Research Defense



Make Necessary Changes



Graduate

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