COSC 6321 - Research Methods in Computer Science (Spring 2024)

 

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

In addition to the lectures, the students are also expected to watch the interviews in Research Diaries.

Semester Timeline
Date Topic    
1/17/2024Course IntroductionLecture 1
1/22/2024PhD TemplateLecture 2
1/24/2024Research IdeasLecture 3
1/29/2024Evaluating Research IdeasLecture 4
1/29/2024Research Ideas and PapersLecture 5
2/5/2024Anatomy of Research Papers - 1Lecture 6
2/7/2024Anatomy of Research Papers - 2Lecture 7
2/12/2024Research Paper Structure and CS ExperimentsLecture 8
2/14/2024CS Experiments and Paper TypesLecture 9
2/19/2024Papers, CitationsLecture 10
2/19/2024Hypothesis and MetricsLecture 11
2/16/2024Paper claims and expectationsLecture 12
2/16/2024Conferences. Adequate description of your work.Lecture 13
3/4/2024Adequate description of your work. Paper review.Lecture 14
3/6/2024Paper review.Lecture 15
3/18/2024Paper and poster review.Lecture 16
3/20/2024Paper and poster review. Idea Generation.Lecture 17
3/22/2024PhD Showcase
3/25/2024Giving Technical Talks.Lecture 18Prof. Jaspal Subhlok
3/27/2024Oral Presentations.Lecture 19Guest: Prof. Jan Uhrick
4/1/2024Working with data in your research and paper.Lecture 20Prof. Ioannis Konstantinidis
4/3/2024Idea Generation. System comparison experiments.Lecture 21
4/8/2024Human Subject Experiments.Lecture 22Guest: Alicia Vargas
4/10/2024Introduction to Visualization.Lecture 23Guest: Prof. Guoning Chen
4/17/2024Idea Generation. Legible Graphs.Lecture 24
4/22/2024TPC meeting
4/29/2024Conference