Why top-tier research?
Before you read anything, please read my PDF talking about top-tier research. and our orientation slide
1. Choosing topics
First step to choose potential topics is to visit Projects to understand the problem you are interested to solve.
2. Graduation criteria
To graduate from AIT Brain lab,
- Research Study: Develop a product or model justifying 6 months effort
- Master Thesis: Submit 1 publication or work on an application or model that justify 1 year effort
- Ph.D. Thesis: Submit 3 top-tier publications
3. Publication venue
You may want to first read my blog on which venues to submit.. But in short, we usually recommend our students to submit to top-tier conferences like ACM CHI (flagship for HCI), ACL (NLP), CVPR (computer vision), ICML (machine learning), KDD (data analytics). As for journals, there are also many good ones with relatively high impact factors.
4. Proposal and defense
To propose or defend, you need to prepare,
- Report: following AIT format
- PPT: following my format provided below
Join our weekly meeting to update your progress. Use the thesis PPT template as a form to explain your progress.
- Presentation template (Download), Thesis latex template (Download)
- Example of special study (Master - Download)(PhD - Download)
- Example of thesis proposal (Master - PPT, Report)(PhD - PPT, Report)
- Example of final thesis or research study (PPT, Report)
- Example of final internship (Report)
5. Research Tips
Research can be very difficult. Here are my blogs that may help you:
- Research Process
- How to choose good topic
- How to find related work efficiently
- How to write paper
- Common mistakes
6. Deliverables
Your main deliverables for your research are
- upload your code to AIT Brain Lab Github repo,
- final report,
- final presentation slide
- video demo,
- final publication (if you are thesis)